HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS

Appendix D. CSS Color Reference

As covered in detail in Chapter 7, there are five methods to specify color values in CSS:

• Descriptive color names

  color: red;
  

• System color names

  color: AppWorkspace;
  

• RGB hexadecimal values (including a three-character shorthand)

  color: #ff0000;
  color: #f00;
  

• RGB decimal values

  color: rgb(255, 0, 0);
  

• RGB percentage values

  color: rgb(100%, 0%, 0%);
  

This appendix provides a complete reference to the first two methods—color names. The CSS2 Recommendation prescribes a set of 16 descriptive color names, which are presented in Table D-2. Netscape proposed an additional 124 color names, which are supported by practically every graphical browser available today, and are presented in Table D-3. Finally, CSS2 also ...