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Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition
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Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

by Jennifer Robbins
February 2006
Intermediate to advanced
826 pages
63h 42m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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By name

You can specify color values by name as follows:

    h1 {color: olive;}

The CSS 2.1 specification accepts only 17 color names for use in style sheets (CSS 1 and CSS 2 had only 16 names; orange was added in Version 2.1.) The color names are:

aqua

green

orange

white

black

lime

purple

yellow

blue

maroon

red

 

fuchsia

navy

silver

 

gray

olive

teal

 

Other names from the complete list of color names may be supported by some browsers. For the complete list, see Appendix D.

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