[thechat] Specifying Colors

[Erika Meyer]

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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