CSS3 Quick Syntax Reference: A Pocket Guide to the Cascading Style Sheets Language

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Mikael OlssonCSS3 Quick Syntax Referencehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4903-1_8

8. Colors

Mikael Olsson¹ 

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Hammarland, Finland

 

There are several different ways to specify a color in CSS, which are described in the following sections.

Named Notation

Colors can be set by simply typing the common name of that color.

p { color: red; } /* color paragraphs red */

The HTML and CSS color specification includes 140 predefined color names, such as white, lime, and olive. These colors are all supported by the major browsers.

Hexadecimal Notation

For the full palette , the red, green, and blue components of the color can be set individually. Each color component consists of a two-digit hexadecimal number, and the whole six-digit number ...