<function name="SetFGColor" parent="Panel" type="classfunc"> <file line="18-L26">lua/includes/extensions/client/panel.lua</file> <description> Sets the foreground color of a panel. For a <page>Label</page> or <page>RichText</page>, this is the color of its text. This function calls <page>Panel:SetFGColorEx</page> internally. ⤶ Please note that for most panels the engine will overwrite the foreground and background colors a frame after panel creation via the <page>PANEL:ApplySchemeSettings</page> hook, so you may want to set the color in that hook instead.⤶ ⤶ See <page>Panel:SetBGColor</page> for the background color.⤶ <note>This doesn't apply to all VGUI elements (such as <page>DLabel</page>) and its function varies between them</note> </description> <realm>Client and Menu</realm> <args> <arg name="r or color" type="number">The red channel of the color, or a <page>Color</page>. If you pass the latter, the following three arguments are ignored.</arg> <arg name="g" type="number">The green channel of the color.</arg> <arg name="b" type="number">The blue channel of the color.</arg> <arg name="a" type="number">The alpha channel of the color.</arg> </args> </function> <example> <description>Creates a <page>Label</page> and sets its text color to white.</description> <code> local label = vgui.Create( "Label" ) label:SetFGColor( Color( 255, 255, 255, 255 ) ) </code> </example> <example> <description>Sets the foreground color of a <page>RichText</page> to match the chat box format.</description> <code> -- Create a window frame TextFrame = vgui.Create("DFrame") TextFrame:SetSize(200, 50) TextFrame:Center() TextFrame:SetTitle("This is a color test") TextFrame:MakePopup() -- RichText panel local richtext = vgui.Create("RichText", TextFrame) richtext:Dock(FILL) -- Sample text richtext:SetText("Here is some light green text.") -- When the panel is ready for layout, make the text light green function richtext:PerformLayout() self:SetFGColor(Color(153, 255, 153)) end </code> <output><image src="RichText_SetFGColor_example1.png"/></output> </example>