Before discussing the specifics of color, it’s important to make two distinctions about color. Color can affect the following design aspects:
- Foreground color
- Background color
Foreground color is the color that an element appears in. For example, when a heading is styled to appear green, the foreground color of the heading has been styled. Conversely, when a heading is styled so that its background appears yellow, the background color of the heading has been styled.
In CSS, these two design aspects can be styled with the following two properties:
color: this property styles an element’s foreground colorbackground-color: this property styles an element’s background color
In the example above, the text of the heading will appear in red, and the background of the heading will appear blue.
Instructions
Take a look at the caption on the image at the bottom of the page. In style.css, set the background color in the .caption selector to white.
Then, in the same ruleset, set the color of the text to black. That should make the text a bit easier to read!