Specifying default colors and character set for new documents
Specifying default colors
In the Preferences dialog box, you can specify the default colors that new documents will use for various items, including:
- ordinary text
- the document background
- unvisited hyperlinks
- visited hyperlinks
- “active” hyperlinks (a hyperlink is “active” when the mouse pointer is over it)
To specify default colors for new documents
- Click the Namo button
and click Preferences, then click Browser Defaults.
- Under Colors, click the color box for any desired item and select a color.
You can override any of these default colors either on the document level—by specifying different colors for the current document in the Appearance tab of the Document Properties dialog box—or on the elementThe basic building block of an HTML document. Elements, such as paragraphs, can contain other elements, such as spans. level, by applying a different color to selected content.
Specifying a default character set
If you use a particular character set for most of your documents, you can save time by specifying it as the default character set for new documents. Initially, the default character set is set to user-defined, meaning unspecified, so new documents will not use any specific character set. But if you set the default to, for example, Unicode (UTF-8), then new documents will automatically use the Unicode character set.
Of course, if you specify a default character set, you can still override that setting by specifying a different character set for a particular document in the General tab of the Document Properties dialog box.
To specify the default character set for new documents
- Click the Namo button and click Preferences, then click Browser Defaults.
- Click the Character set box and select a character set.
Related topics
Preferences dialog box – Browser Defaults tab
Setting default colors for the current document
Setting character-related properties
Setting background colors and images
Specifying a character set for the current document