CSS Units for Colors

• By Name - 16 (basic Windows VGA) color names supported by all the major browsers
• aqua, black, blue, fuchsia, gray, green, lime, maroon, navy, olive, purple, red, silver, teal, white, yellow
• Many more names may also be supported, but the above are pretty sure to work. For example: orange, pink, tan....
• Colors by RGB (Red, Green, Blue)
  • By percentages

    h1 {rgb(25%, 50%, 75%)}     h2 {rgb(100%, 0%, 0%)}

  • By numbers (0 - 255)

    h1 {rgb(0, 255, 0)}     h2 {rgb(128,255, 240)}

  • By hexadecimal numbers (00 - FF, format: #RRGGBB)

    h1 {color:#0000FF}     h2 {color:#287f92}

  • By shorthand hexadecimal numbers (0 - F, #FFF is same as #FFFFFF; #8F2 is #88FF22)

    h1 {color:#0FF}     h2 {color:#80F}