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HTML and XHTML Pocket Reference, 3rd Edition
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HTML and XHTML Pocket Reference, 3rd Edition

by Jennifer Robbins
May 2006
Intermediate to advanced
104 pages
2h 50m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Standard Color Names

Colors may also be identified by predefined color names. The syntax for using color names is extremely straightforward.

<body link="navy">

HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0 include 16 valid color names. They are listed here with their equivalent RGB values:

black

#000000

green

#008000

silver

#C0C0C0

lime

#00FF00

gray

#808080

olive

#808000

white

#FFFFFF

yellow

#FFFF00

maroon

#800000

navy

#000080

red

#FF0000

blue

#0000FF

purple

#800080

teal

#008080

fuchsia

#FF00FF

aqua

#00FFFF

These color names may be used with stylesheets as well. The CSS 2.1 Recommendation adds orange (#FFA500 ) to this list for a total of 17 supported colors. CSS 3 supports 140 additional standard color names that are widely supported by browsers, but they are not valid for use in (X)HTML documents.

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