I'm trying to figure out why this wont work

AmyR9 · Joined: 14 Sep 2008 Posts: 79

See, I'm trying to add a list of the 50 states to this part of the site, and I'm trying to change the color of the text for the area, but I keep trying all kinds of things, and it wont work right. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I want the text to be blue. Here is my codes. See, how I've got <text color="#0000ff"> since that is the code for blue text. I've put the html tag I want to change which is text <text></text>
I've tried <text color></text color> I've tried so many different things. I guess I think I've been doing something wrong all along, and trying to figure out what I've been doing wrong with the codes.
I've been just doing 
to do that all along. Is that not right? Thats why I've been doing it like that. It seems to be the only thing I can find that will work.
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
http-equiv="content-type">
<title></title>
</head>
<body
style="background-image: url(http://www.astresurfacing.com/lightblue.jpg); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"
leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" link="#0000ff" marginheight="0"
marginwidth="0" vlink="#0000ff">
<center><img alt="" src="http://www.astresurfacing.com/astbanner1.jpg"> 
<center>
<table border="0" cellpadding="10" width="100%">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="50%"><a
href="http://www.astresurfacing.com/">Main</a> 
<a href="http://www.astresurfacing.com/floors.html">Floors</a> 

<a
href="http://www.astresurfacing.com/countertops.html">Counter Tops</a> 

<a href="http://www.astresurfacing.com/baths.html">Baths</a> 

<a
href="http://www.astresurfacing.com/findanaffiliate.html">Find An
Affiliate</a> 

</td>
<td valgin="top" width="50%"><text color="#0000ff">Alabama 
Florida 
</text> <img alt=""
src="http://www.astresurfacing.com/bacounter.jpg"></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</center>
</center>
</body>
</html>

Thanks for all your help with things you have been helping me out with,
Amy

sticks464 · Joined: 31 Dec 2006 Posts: 1284

Just the color property is enough

AmyR9 · Joined: 14 Sep 2008 Posts: 79

It doesn't allow me to enter things in that way. It keeps changing it.
When I try typing in
<td style= valign="top" width="50%" color: "#0000ff">
It keeps changing it to this
<td style="" top="" color="" #0000ff="" width="50%">

But then the color for Alabama and Florida are still black, not blue as I just enterd. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

AmyR9 · Joined: 14 Sep 2008 Posts: 79

Just tried it again with writing it out this way <td style=valign="top width=50% color: #0000ff"> and now it erased almost everything to where it now just reads
<td style=""> and still no color change to the text at all. Nothing seems to be working.
I'm about to just give up on this completely. Keeps causing me too much stress and all getting me sicker trying to get it to work in the different codes than I've been using.
Still can't seem to figure out or understand why things keep showing up the correct way all these years on all the sites I've made if I'm entering things the wrong way. People still seem to be able to see everything. So, I don't understand how they are able to see the text and all if I'm not entering the codes in right.

I start off each page by doing it the text color, links color, visted links all that in the <body> tag
like this if I have a background like the one I'm using then if I want blue text I will do, then the colors of the links I do next
<body background="lightblue.jpg" text="#0000ff" link="#000000" vlink="#cc3299">
Then if I don't have a background, I just choose whatever colors I like best, pastels I like alot, lightskyblue,
so I do
<body bgcolor="#00ccff" text="#0000ff" link="#cc3299" vlink="#00ffff">
Something like that is what I sometimes do. Of course I may not use those exact color since they wouldn't show up much anyways on that light of a background color, but now you can see how I enter things in.

Then if I want the color of the text to be changed later on the site, I changed it like I told you I do I put in the code for the color I want that text to be in.
Alabama 
Florida 


Are you trying to say I need to type out the word text instead of font as I've been doing?
Which is correct?
1.Alabama 
Florida 

2. <text color="#0000ff">Alabama 
Florida</text>
3. <color="#0000ff">Alabama 
Florida</color>

Or is none of them right?
For some reason the first way I typed it out seems to be the only way that will change it to blue, which makes it even more weird.

sticks464 · Joined: 31 Dec 2006 Posts: 1284

Pm me with your email and I will send you all the coded pages then we will work from there making changes and additions.