## Working with color

Freeway handles the colors of text, graphics, and other objects in your site in a consistent way using the Styles and Colors palette .

Freeway maintains a list of all the colors used in your document, and you can give these convenient names, or define your own permanent library of colors, to ensure consistency across your Web pages.

### To apply a document color

- Open the Window menu and choose Styles and Colors to display the Styles and Colors palette.
- Click the color icon at the top of the Styles and Colors palette to display the document colors:

- Select the feature you want to apply the color to from the Apply to pop-up menu.

The available options will depend on what you have selected, as shown in the following table:

Selected | What you can change
Nothing | Page background color.
HTML item | Background or border color.
Table | Background or border color.
Graphic item | Shadow, glow, background, foreground, or border color.
Text in an HTML item | Text or text background color.
Text in a graphic item | Text, text background, text shadow, text glow, or text outline color.

- Click the color you want to apply.

### To apply a Web-safe color to an object

This is a set of 216 colors recommended for use on the Web, as they are supported in a consistent way on most computers.

- Select the object on your page.
- Click the Web-safe colors icon at the top of the Styles and Colors palette to display the Web-safe colors:

- Select the feature you want to apply the color to from the Apply to pop-up menu.

The options will depend on what you have selected.

- Click the color you want to apply.

The new color will be added to the end of the document colors list, with a name such as Color 1:

### To apply an arbitrary color to an object

- Click the color options icon at the top right of the Styles and Colors palette, and choose Color Picker... from the pop-up menu:

The Color Picker provides five alternative ways of choosing colors.

### To add a color to the document colors list

- Click the color options icon at the top right of the Styles and Colors palette, and choose New Color... from the pop-up menu.

The Color dialog box allows you to define the new color and give it a name:

- Select a color from the Web-safe colors palette, or click the Color picker icon in the bottom left corner of Color dialog box and use the Color Picker to define an arbitrary color.
- Click the OK button to add the color you have defined to the document colors list:

### To edit the document colors

- Click the color options icon at the top right of the Styles and Colors palette and choose Edit Colors... from the pop-up menu.

The Edit Colors dialog box shows a list of all the colors in your document and allows you to add new colors, import colors from another document, or edit the colors:

Built-in colors are identified by a padlock icon in the left column; you cannot edit or delete these.

Colors shown in bold are permanent. They will remain in the document colors list even if they are not used in the site.

### To edit a user-defined color

- Select it in the Edit Colors dialog box and click the Edit... button.

### To delete a user-defined color

- Select it in the Edit Colors list, and click the Delete button.

If the color is in use in your site you will be prompted to select a color to replace it.

### To create a new color

- Click the New... button and follow the method described above for adding a new color.

### To import the permanent colors from another document

- Click the Import... button, locate the other site document, then click the Open... button to import its permanent colors into the document colors list.

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