Before you begin, you must complete Exercise 9.7: Adding moving text to the page.
Sometimes you want to change the text color. There is an easy way to
apply another color to certain areas of text. To do that you return to
the Design page.
To change the text color:
- Click the Design tab.

- Select the company text (IBM) you want to change color on, by swiping the
text area with the mouse cursor.
Below the Page Designer window there are several tabs.
- Click the Colors tab.
If you don't see the Colors tab, click Windows > Show
View > Colors from the Workbench menu.
- Select a color from the Color palette.
- Click Text color from the Color menu.
- Click Set as Text Color on the pop-up menu.
You are done; now the selected text will be displayed with the color
you selected for it.
- Click the Preview tab to view your completed page.
- Save the file inquiry.jsp.

- Exit Page Designer.
- In the Project Explorer expand the WSSLABxx folder.
- Expand the Web content folder.
- Right-click inquiry.jsp.
- Click Run > Run on server on the pop-up menu.
Your new designed input page opens and you can run your Web
application.

You have applied color to certain areas of text on the input page.
Module recap
You have completed Module 9. Enhancing the input page using Web tools. You have learned how to:
- Locate the Web application input page and start Page Designer
- View the title of the input page
- Add a style to the input page
- Preview the new style for the input page
- Start WebArt Designer
- Create a logo
- Resize the logo
- Save the object as a WebArt object
- Save the object for a Web page
- Place the object on the Design page
- Add a company name to the input page
- Add an image to the input page
- Add a marquee to the input page
- Apply color to certain areas of text
Finish your tutorial by reviewing the materials in Summary.
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