[thechat] Specifying Colors
Erika Meyer
emeyer at lclark.edu
Fri Dec 14 16:44:34 CST 2001
IMO this is not at all off-topic for thelist.
and I've wondered the same thing myself.
E
>This might qualify as marginally off-topic for thelist, so Im starting here:
>
>Why are some colors used in CSS pages only 3 digits?
>(#ccc instead of #cccccc or #cc9 instead of #cccc99)
>
>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?
>
>--Sal
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