Cascading Style Sheets (CSS web pages) at Level 1 supports only 16 named colors. However, Netscape 4 and Internet Explorer 4 support these, but also support an additional 124 name values. This page lists these names, and provides a useful test of support for these values by your browser.

In the following table each color is given twice: once using the color name, the second using the hexadecimal code corresponding to the symbolic name. That is, the name "aquamarine" and the hexadecimal code "7FFFD4" should yield the same color.

NOTE 1 - This document is properly displayed only on those systems capable of "thousands" of colors. If your system can only display 256 colors, some of the colors will be correct, but most will be not -- they will be either dithered or substituted. In this case, this document is not a good demonstration of the colors, but is a good demonstration of dithering/substitution problems.

NOTE 2 - The color name aliceblue (the first color defined in the following table), although defined in the extended list of named colors, probably does not work with Netscape browsers? And older borwser never did recognize "color names" but many did recognize "hexidecimal" codes. Really OLD browsers recognized neither.

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