[thechat] Specifying Colors

[Joe Crawford]

Salvatore Palmisano wrote:

> 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)


Not sure why - but it's a nice shorthand:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/syndata.html#color-units

> 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?


yes, that's right. each one is added -- so #cc9 is indeed expanded to 
#cccc99.

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