You can set the colour of various components of foreground text by including the following attributes in your document's BODY tag.
<BODY TEXT="#F0F0F0" LINK="#FFFF00" VLINK="#22AA22" ALINK="#0077FF">
TEXT: Ordinary text on the page.
LINK: Untraversed links.
VLINK: A traversed (visited) link.
ALINK: A link that has just been clicked on and is being
activated (an active link).
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