[thelist] Re: [th*chat] Specifying Colors
David McCreath
mccreath at ak.net
Fri Dec 14 16:51:32 CST 2001
[ Forwarding from thechat ]
Salvatore Palmisano wrote:
> This might qualify as marginally off-topic for thelist, so Im starting here:
Nah. This is completely on-topic for thelist.
> Why are some colors used in CSS pages only 3 digits?
> (#ccc instead of #cccccc or #cc9 instead of #cccc99)
It's shorthand. I think it might be CSS2, but I'm not sure about that.
> Using cc9 implies that it'll replace left of digit one with the first digit,
> and right of digit three with the third digit.
> Is this right, or is there some other convention for using these shortened
> values?
You're substituting pairs for single values.
#[c(c)][c(c)][9(9)] or #[c(c)][f(f)][0(0)]
It doesn't work unless both values of each pair are the same.
Anyone offer more clarification?
David
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