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Colors: Color Name Keywords

The document discusses different methods for specifying colors in CSS, including: - Color name keywords like aqua and khaki. - RGBA and HSLA values that allow specifying alpha transparency levels between fully opaque and fully transparent. - Hexadecimal color codes expressed as #RRGGBB or abbreviated forms, to specify red, green, and blue values. - HSL values using the hue, saturation, lightness color model expressed as percentages or degrees. - RGB values specifying red, green, and blue component values from 0-255.

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Colors: Color Name Keywords

The document discusses different methods for specifying colors in CSS, including: - Color name keywords like aqua and khaki. - RGBA and HSLA values that allow specifying alpha transparency levels between fully opaque and fully transparent. - Hexadecimal color codes expressed as #RRGGBB or abbreviated forms, to specify red, green, and blue values. - HSL values using the hue, saturation, lightness color model expressed as percentages or degrees. - RGB values specifying red, green, and blue component values from 0-255.

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Colors
Color Name Keywords
Color name keywords can be used to set color property values for elements in CSS.

h1 {
color: aqua;
}

li {
color: khaki;
}

CSS Color Alpha Values


Alpha values determine the transparency of colors in CSS. Alpha values can be set for
both RGB and HSL colors by using rgba() and hsla() and providing a fourth value
representing alpha. Alpha values can range between 0.0 (totally transparent) and 1.0
(totally opaque).
The CSS transparent value can also be used to create a fully transparent element.

.midground {
background-color: rgba(0, 255, 0, 0.5);
}

.foreground {
background-color: hsla(34, 100%, 50%, 0.1);
}

.transparent {
color: transparent;
}

CSS Hexadecimal Colors


CSS colors can be represented in hexadecimal (or hex) notation. Hexadecimal digits can
represent sixteen different values using 0 - 9 and a - f .
Hexadecimal colors are composed of 6 characters–each group of two represents a value
between 0 and 255 for red, green, or blue. For example #ff0000 is all red, no green, and
no blue.
When both characters of all three colors are repeated, hex colors can be abbreviated to
only three values, so #0000ff could also be represented as #00f .

.red {
color: #ff0000;
}

.short-blue {
color: #00f;
}

CSS HSL Colors


CSS colors can be declared with the HSL color system using hsl() syntax. This syntax
contains three values: hue (the color value itself), saturation (intensity), and lightness.
Hue values range from 0 to 360 while saturation and lightness values are represented as
percentages.

.light-blue {
background-color: hsl(200, 70%, 50%);
}

CSS rgb() Colors


CSS colors can be declared with RGB colors using rgb() syntax.
rgb() should be supplied with three values representing red, green, and blue. These
values range can from 0 to 255.

.hot-pink {
color: rgb(249, 2, 171);
}
.green {
color: rgb(0, 255, 0);
}

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