Microsoft® SharePoint® Designer 2010 Unleashed

Working with Colors

The corev4.css primarily references colors using hexadecimal valuesrather than the color name, such as red or white. Hexadecimal values are more robust in terms of cross-browser compatibility and, although SharePoint Designer typically applies colors in the color name, you should use hexadecimal values where possible. See “HTML Color Names” at http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colornames.asp for a list of color names supported by all browsers. Although the color name Thistle was correctly rendered and interpreted by Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3.6, I recommend you fully test colors against common browsers when you’re applying the colors in SharePoint sites. For instance, when adding the name Thistle as a color background ...