Select Text and Background Colors of Web Pages

To increase contrast between screen elements, you can select text and background colors of Web pages displayed on your screen. After you have selected the Ignore colors specified in Web pages option, you can use this procedure to select colors for text and background colors that make pages easier for you to view on screen—or simply to better fit your personal preferences.

After you make these selections, if the author of the Web page chooses different colors for text and background, the settings you choose here will override them.

Note: You cannot change the color or size of graphics.

This procedure tells you how to select text and background colors of Web pages through Internet Options in Control Panel.

Mouse actions

Keyboard actions

On the Start menu:

Select Control Panel

Display the Start menu by pressing CTRL+ESC (or the Windows logo key ).

Select Control Panel by pressing C.

In Control Panel:

Be sure you are in Classic View (all Control Panel icons are showing).
If not, under Control Panel in the left pane, select Switch to Classic View.
Select Internet Options.

In Control Panel:

Be sure you are in Classic View (all Control Panel icons are showing).
If not, under Control Panel in the left pane, select Switch to Classic View by pressing TAB.
Press ENTER.
Move to Internet Options by pressing the arrow keys.
Press ENTER.

In the Internet Properties dialog box, on the General tab:

Select the Colors button.

In the Internet Options dialog box, on the General tab:

Select the Colors button by pressing ALT+O.

In the Colors dialog box:

Clear the Use Windows colors check box.

This activates the Text and Background buttons.

Select the Text or Background button.

The Color dialog box appears displaying a color palette.

In the Colors dialog box:

Clear the Use Windows colors check box by pressing W.

This activates the Text and Background buttons.

To change the color of the text:

Press T.

To change the color of the background:

Press B.

The Color dialog box appears displaying a color palette.

In the Color dialog box, under Basic colors:

Select the color you want.
Select OK twice.

In the Color dialog box, under Basic colors:

Move to the color you want by pressing the arrow keys.
Select a color by pressing SPACEBAR.
Press ENTER twice.

To close the Internet Options dialog box:

Select OK.

To close the Internet Options dialog box:

Press ESC.

To close Control Panel:

Select the Close button.

To close Control Panel:

Press ALT+F, C.

Control Panel: Internet Options: Colors button: Colors dialog box

Color palette