Different models of definiting color in cascading style sheets.

1. CSS3 color

2. Work with color http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color

3. Determining color in CSS color: #000 background-color:#333 border-color:#999

4. Color Keywords

5. Color Keywords

6. Color Keywords

7. Color Keywords

9. CSS 2.1 allows to determine color as RGB values

10. CSS3 adds keywords SVG 1.0 to the specification

11. More information on available keywords:

12. http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/#svg-color

14. red, green, blue

15. RGBA (in CSS3)

16. red, green, blue, alpha transparency

17. HSL

18. hue, saturation, lightness

19. HSLA

20. hue, saturation, lightness, alpha

21. CMYK (in Generated Paged Media Module)

22. cyan, magenta, yellow, black

23. RGB is a mixed color model. Red, green and blue are mixed together in order to form other colors. As a mixed model, 100% of all the three colors will give white color.

24. Syntax RGB rgb(0,0,0) rgb(255,255,255) rgb(69%,9%,12%) In CSS RGB values can be written as the three different values separated by a comma ranging from 0 to 255, or as a percentage ranging from 0 to 100%, in the following order: red, green and blue.

25. RGBA Model A new color model introduced in CSS3. It allows to add alfa value which specifies a level of opacity. It is supported in Safari 3.2+, Chrome 3+, Firefox 3+, Opera 10+, IE9 Beta. .nav { color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 60% ); /* black at 60% opacity */ } .nav { color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6 ); /* black at 60% opacity */ }

26. RGBA Model Value 1 ( 100% ) means that the color is opaque . Value 0 means that the color is fully transparent .

27. Styling the link color with RGBA RGBA model can help us style the link color. It allows to make the text soak up some of the background color behind it. The white color at 70% opacity allows the background to shine through. .nav li a { color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7); }

28. RGBA backup Due to the fact that RGBA is not supported by all browsers it is a good practice to provide sort of backup for the browers which don't support this color model. In the code we should put a solid color first. The browers which support RBGA will override the solid color whereas the browsers which don't support RGBA will ignore RGBA rule. .nav li a { color: #ccc; color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7); }

29. Important ! Remember to specify solid backups for RGBA colors in a separate rule which appears BEFORE the RGBA rule.

33. Hue Saturation Lightness

35. Adding alpha value

36. Current support color syntax rgbs ( ) 4 3 x* 10 4 hsl ( ) 4 3 x* 10 4 hsla ( ) 4 3 x* 10 4 *support added for IE 9

37. Current support

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