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Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web, Third Edition
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Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web, Third Edition

by Håkon Wium Lie, Bert Bos
April 2005
Intermediate to advanced
416 pages
9h 23m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Appendix C. System Colors

In addition to being able to assign predefined color values to text, backgrounds, and so on, CSS2.1 allows authors to specify colors in a manner that integrates them into the user’s graphic environment. Style rules that take into account user preferences thus offer the following advantages:

• They produce pages that fit the user’s defined look and feel.

• They produce pages that may be more accessible as the current user settings may be related to a disability.

The set of values defined for system colors is intended to be exhaustive. For systems that do not have a corresponding value, the specified value should be mapped to the nearest system attribute or to a default color.

Table C.1 lists additional values for color-related ...

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