September 2001
Intermediate to advanced
640 pages
31h 42m
English
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Specifying Colors by Name
Colors can also be identified by one of 140 color names originally developed for the X Window System. The complete list appears in Table 16-2 (sorted alphabetically, with numerical values included) and Table 16-3 (grouped by hue). You can also view samples of each color at http://www.learningwebdesign.com/colornames.html.
To set the background color to a dark olive green using a color name, the complete HTML tag would look like this:
<BODY BGCOLOR="darkolivegreen">
Grays
There are also one hundred variants of gray numbered 1 through 100. “Gray1” is the darkest; “gray100” is the lightest. The color we generally think of as “gray” is roughly equivalent to “gray75.” Both spellings “gray” and “grey” are acceptable.
Color Name Cautions
There are several pitfalls to using color names instead of numerical color values:
- Browser support
Color names are supported only by Navigator Versions 2.0 and higher and Internet Explorer Versions 3.0 and higher. Internet Explorer 2.0 supports the following 16 color names:
aquagraynavysilverblackgreenolivetealbluelimepurplewhitefuchsiamaroonredyellowThese are also the only color names specified by the W3C in the HTML 4.01 Specification.
- Color shifting
Of the 140 color names, only 10 represent nondithering colors from the web palette. They are aqua, black, blue, cyan, fuchsia, lime, magenta, red, white, and yellow.
When viewed on an 8-bit display, the remaining ...
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