[thelist] using rgb values for colors

[Timothy J. Luoma]

Jacob Metcalf wrote:
 > Why don't you use Photoshop or Gimp to pick your colors?

Maybe he uses a text editor

 > and then get the hex values.

you can get them much more easily than that.


 > RGB in CSS might work in some browsers but not all

I don't know of any that don't support it, but it's a possibility.  Not
to plug again, but you can test browser support at the page

http://tntluoma.com/sidebars/triplecolors/

which shows the colors by name (least supported), hex, and RGB.  It
works in NN4 and IE5.0 (Windows)


 > and you will not be able to validate your CSS.

Ah... err... false.

RGB is totally valid in CSS:

Ref: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/#rgb-color

em { color: #f00 }              /* #rgb */
em { color: #ff0000 }           /* #rrggbb */
em { color: rgb(255,0,0) }      /* integer range 0 - 255 */
em { color: rgb(100%, 0%, 0%) } /* float range 0.0% - 100.0% */

TjL


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