Help:Coloring text

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There are several ways you can color text in Proteopedia pages. Not all methods work in all contexts.

Where To Use Each Coloring Method

• Page Text can be colored by any of the 3 methods above (as demonstrated above).
• Scene (green link) Captions:
  • PDB-file based scenes can be colored

Color Scheme Templates

Standard chemical element or macromolecular color schemes can be inserted with templates. See Help:Color Keys.

Examples: C H O N P S Se Fe

Methods for these and other color schemes will be found at Help:Color Keys.

Wikitext Colors

This method is recommended for darker colors. (For light colors, color the background of black text as shown with other methods below.) To get green text or another more exotic text color, use the Template:Font_color, entering the color and the desired text, as follows:

{{Font color|green|green text}} or another {{Font color|#a569bd|more exotic}}

Colored text is more visible when bold. Surround the above codes with three single quotes, as follows:

'''{{Font color|#00A0A0|Cyan}}'''

which displays as Cyan.

Class Colors

Class colors work for both dark and light colors. Use <span class="bg-warning text-white"> like this </span> that looks like this. This method works in all contexts but is limited to the pre-set color below.

Available classes are primary , secondary , success , info , warning , danger , light , dark and white . You will use each class combined with text- to color a text, or bg- for the background.

Another set of class colors available in Proteopedia: text-red, text-orange / bg-orange, text-brown, text-chocolate, bg-yellow, bg-yellowgreen, text-green, text-cyan, text-blue, text-magenta, text-violet / bg-violet, text-gray, bg-black text-white.

Temporary test colors, proposed to be added classes: pink, olive, yellowgreen, lightgreen, lightcyan, cyan, lightblue, purple, NEWviolet/lightmagenta, lightgray.

Span Style Colors

You can color using CSS spans: <span style="color:red;font-weight:bold;">Red</span>, which looks like this: Red. In addition to color names, you can use Red-Green-Blue (RGB) hexadecimal codes following "#", for example <span style="color:#8000ff;font-weight:bold;">Purple</span> which looks like this: Purple.

Span style colors also work for light colors, using a colored background with black text: <span style="background-color:yellow;padding-left:7px;padding-right:7px;">Yellow</span>. The "padding" makes the color extend slightly beyond the text, which looks better: Yellow.

HTML Font Colors

Coloring using HTML font tags is NOT recommended as it is technically not supported by HTML5: <font color="red">Red</font> which looks like this: Red. In addition to color names, you can use Red-Green-Blue (RGB) hexadecimal codes following "#", for example <font color="#8000ff">Purple</font> which looks like this: Purple.