Night is Falling

Help Me... I'm Fading Fast!

This is part of my Adding Spice collection, which describes some of the cool things you can do with HTML and/or certain browser software. (I first saw this technique at the VRML from Hell page.)

How can I do that?

This is a cool trick you can pull with the Netscape 1.1 browser. Normally the author sets a background color using the following tag:


      <head BGCOLOR="#C0C0C0" ... >

However, by repeating the tag while gradually changing the color value, it is possible to generate a "fading" effect. For example, this page uses a progression from light-gray to a dark-blue:


      <head BGCOLOR="#C0C0C0">

      <head BGCOLOR="#BCBCBC">

      

         ...

      

      <head BGCOLOR="#080820">

      <head BGCOLOR="#000020" TEXT="#F0F0F0"

                  LINK="#F0F060" VLINK="#C0C030" ALINK="#A0A000">

You can also view the original HTML source for this document, and start experimenting with different colors.

fprefect@umich.edu - 6/14/95