BLUE light • HTML colors are defined using a hexadecimal notation (HEX) for the combination of Red, Green, and Blue color values (RGB). • Two HEX digits called ‘byte’ makes 16*16 . • The lowest value that can be given to one of the light sources is 0 (in HEX: 00). The highest value is 255 (in HEX: FF). • HEX values are specified as 3 pairs of two-digit numbers, starting with a # sign.
major browsers. • A hexadecimal color is specified with: #RRGGBB, where the RR (red), GG (green) and BB (blue) hexadecimal integers specify the components of the color. All values must be between 0 and FF. • For example, the #0000ff value is rendered as blue, because the blue component is set to its highest value (ff) and the others are set to 0. Example: P { background-color:#ff0000; }
max. 256 different colors, a list of 216 "Web Safe Colors" was suggested as a Web standard, reserving 40 fixed system colors. • The 216 cross-browser color palette was created to ensure that all computers would display the colors correctly when running a 256 color palette.
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