My Two Cents,

The raw color names are more widespread since CSS 2.0, there is also a CSS shorthand #FFF is equal to #FFFFFF is equal to white.

My experience is you can use them all, interchangably, browsers have come along way in CSS compatibility... colors and the 216 color palette were.  Problem browsers have really disappeared due to Windows Update, OSX, and Mozilla.... at least when it comes to CSS and early CSS 1.0 features like color declarations.   The HTML color defs have followed suit.

CSS is now worth learning, enough of it is adopted by major browsers.

-Jon Cyr

Brian Sullivan wrote:
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 07:28:08 +0000, Cliff Ford <cliff.ford@ed.ac.uk> wrote:
  
Google for 'css color names' gives a number of good hits, but you will
come across the phrase 'use of these is not recommended'. Hexadecimel is
preferred (#FF00FF).

    


Is hexadecimal specification of color actually "preferred"?-- I would
have thought RGB(x,y,z) would have been the preferred method-- being
more people friendly and universally supported.
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