Colours

Pre-defined Colour Keywords

This section lists the predefined colours that are defined in HTML 4.01. The document used for this section was http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#h-6.5.

• Aqua = #00FFFF
• Black = #000000
• Blue = #0000FF
• Fuchsia = #FF00FF
• Gray = #808080
• Green = #008000
• Lime = #00FF00
• Maroon = #800000
• Navy = #000080
• Olive = #808000
• Purple = #800080
• Red = #FF0000
• Silver = #C0C0C0
• Teal = #008080
• White = #FFFFFF
• Yellow = #FFFF00

CSS Level 2 System Colours

Cascading Style Sheets level 2 introduced system colours, that are unique to the operating system that the user has. Below are listed the possible values with a description of what they are (courtesy of http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/ui.html#system-colors).

ActiveBorder

Active window border.

ActiveCaption

Active window caption.

AppWorkspace

Background color of multiple document interface.

Background

Desktop background.

ButtonFace

Face color for three-dimensional display elements.

ButtonHighlight

Dark shadow for three-dimensional display elements (for edges facing away from the light source).

ButtonShadow

Shadow color for three-dimensional display elements.

ButtonText

Text on push buttons.

CaptionText

Text in caption, size box, and scrollbar arrow box.

GrayText

Grayed (disabled) text. This color is set to #000 if the current display driver does not support a solid gray color.

Highlight

Item(s) selected in a control.

HighlightText

Text of item(s) selected in a control.

InactiveBorder

Inactive window border.

InactiveCaption

Inactive window caption.

InactiveCaptionText

Color of text in an inactive caption.

InfoBackground

Background color for tooltip controls.

InfoText

Text color for tooltip controls.

Menu

Menu background.

MenuText

Text in menus.

Scrollbar

Scroll bar gray area.

ThreeDDarkShadow

Dark shadow for three-dimensional display elements.

ThreeDFace

Face color for three-dimensional display elements.

ThreeDHighlight

Highlight color for three-dimensional display elements.

ThreeDLightShadow

Light color for three-dimensional display elements (for edges facing the light source).

ThreeDShadow

Dark shadow for three-dimensional display elements.

Window

Window background.

WindowFrame

Window frame.

WindowText

Text in windows.

Web Safe Colours

If you do not have a JavaScript-enabled brower, or would prefer to just see a list of the web-safe colours, you can view the web-safe colours page.

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