How do I change the font colour in a CSS style sheet?

Question

I've tried

font-color: green;

for example, but I know that's probably not right...

Answer 1

All you need is
color: green;
applied to the appropriate container. If you want the default text in the page to be green, apply this to the body:
body {color: green;}

Answer 2

The above is correct, however try and use hex colors as all browsers understand them.

So for paragraph text:

p {
color:#FFFFFF;
}

gives your paragraph a color of white in hex.
Here is a good for hex colors:

http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html
.

Answer 3

try fore-color