Named Colours

Specifying colours

You can specify colours in HTML and CSS by their colour name or by their RGB hexadecimal value.

In HTML4 you can type:        <font color="purple">     or <font color="#800080">

In HTML5 you should use:        <p style="color: purple">        or        <p style="color: #800080"> 

In CSS you can also use RGB decimal values, eg:

        P { color: rgb(128,0,128); }        or

        P { color: purple; }        or

        P { color: #800080; }        or

HTML colour names

17 colour names are specified in HTML:

CSS colour names

A further 123 colour names are specified in CSS.  These are listed in the table below, together with their corresponding Hex value, RGB value and Microsoft Access code number.  (Colours marked with an asterisk* are included in the HTML colour set).