String.prototype.fontcolor()

The fontcolor() method creates a <font> HTML element that causes a string to be displayed in the specified font color.

Syntax

str.fontcolor(color)

Parameters

color

A string expressing the color as a hexadecimal RGB triplet or as a string literal. String literals for color names are listed in the CSS color reference.

Return value

A string containing a <font> HTML element.

Description

If you express color as a hexadecimal RGB triplet, you must use the format rrggbb. For example, the hexadecimal RGB values for salmon are red=FA, green=80, and blue=72, so the RGB triplet for salmon is "FA8072".

Examples

Using fontcolor()

The following example uses the fontcolor() method to change the color of a string by producing a string with the HTML <font> tag.

var worldString = 'Hello, world';

console.log(worldString.fontcolor('red') +  ' is red in this line');
// '<font color="red">Hello, world</font> is red in this line'

console.log(worldString.fontcolor('FF00') + ' is red in hexadecimal in this line');
// '<font color="FF00">Hello, world</font> is red in hexadecimal in this line'

With the element.style object you can get the element's style attribute and manipulate it more generically, for example:

document.getElementById('yourElemId').style.color = 'red';

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also

• String.prototype.fontsize()