What's with three letter colours now?

[Big Bill]

as opposed to six letter colours?

I'm seeing body {color: #fff; background: #000;} and stuff lately.
Is this a new form of abbreviation?

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[Bjoern Hoehrmann]

* Big Bill wrote in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets:

I'm seeing body {color: #fff; background: #000;} and stuff lately.
Is this a new form of abbreviation?

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS1#color-units
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/syndata.html#color-units
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#color-units
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/#numerical
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[Paul]

Big Bill wrote:

as opposed to six letter colours?

I'm seeing body {color: #fff; background: #000;} and stuff lately.
Is this a new form of abbreviation?

New? Hasn't it always been part of the css specification?

[C A Upsdell]

Paul wrote:

Big Bill wrote:

as opposed to six letter colours?

I'm seeing body {color: #fff; background: #000;} and stuff lately. Is
this a new form of abbreviation?

New? Hasn't it always been part of the css specification?

Part of the HTML spec too. But beware: some old browsers can't handle
the 3-digit colours.

[Bjoern Hoehrmann]

* C A Upsdell wrote in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets:

I'm seeing body {color: #fff; background: #000;} and stuff lately. Is
this a new form of abbreviation?

New? Hasn't it always been part of the css specification?

Part of the HTML spec too. But beware: some old browsers can't handle
the 3-digit colours.

Which HTML spec (and according to which section in that spec?)
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[C A Upsdell]

Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:

* C A Upsdell wrote in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets:

I'm seeing body {color: #fff; background: #000;} and stuff lately. Is
this a new form of abbreviation?

New? Hasn't it always been part of the css specification?

Part of the HTML spec too. But beware: some old browsers can't handle
the 3-digit colours.

Which HTML spec (and according to which section in that spec?)

Y'know, I took a look at both the HTML 4.01 and CSS 2 specs. The HTML
spec says nothing about the length of a hex colour code; the CSS spec
says that the code can be either 3 or 6 digits. So I'm not sure what
this means: does this mean that the HTML spec can take colour codes of
indefinite length: I could find nothing in the spec to either affirm or
refute this.

[Stan Brown]

"Big Bill" wrote in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets:

as opposed to six letter colours?

I'm seeing body {color: #fff; background: #000;} and stuff lately.
Is this a new form of abbreviation?

Yes, it was introduced only about ten years ago. :-)

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[Stan Brown]

"C A Upsdell" wrote in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets:

But beware: some old browsers can't handle
the 3-digit colours.

Which?

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[Bjoern Hoehrmann]

* C A Upsdell wrote in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets:

Part of the HTML spec too. But beware: some old browsers can't handle
the 3-digit colours.

Which HTML spec (and according to which section in that spec?)

Y'know, I took a look at both the HTML 4.01 and CSS 2 specs. The HTML
spec says nothing about the length of a hex colour code; the CSS spec
says that the code can be either 3 or 6 digits. So I'm not sure what
this means: does this mean that the HTML spec can take colour codes of
indefinite length: I could find nothing in the spec to either affirm or
refute this.

It means it is not defined... Please write to ww*************@w3.org to
report errors in the HTML/XHTML specifications.
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[Paul]

C A Upsdell > wrote:
<snip>

Y'know, I took a look at both the HTML 4.01 and CSS 2 specs. The HTML
spec says nothing about the length of a hex colour code; the CSS spec
says that the code can be either 3 or 6 digits.
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html40...tml#type-color

So I'm not sure what this means: does this mean that the HTML spec can take colour codes of
indefinite length: I could find nothing in the spec to either affirm or
refute this.

"A color value may either be a hexadecimal number (prefixed by a hash
mark) or one of the following sixteen color names."

So if 3-digit codes work in html, it is a browser "feature". Since the
color attribute is being deprecated this discussion is irrelevant.

Paul

[Big Bill]

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 20:37:36 -0500, Stan Brown
<th************@fastmail.fm> wrote:

"Big Bill" wrote in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets:

as opposed to six letter colours?

I'm seeing body {color: #fff; background: #000;} and stuff lately.
Is this a new form of abbreviation?

Yes, it was introduced only about ten years ago. :-)

Well I can't keep up with everything!
I ask as only a day or so ago I saw it for the firest time and as luck
would have it saw it twice.

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On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 03:03:49 +0100, Bjoern Hoehrmann
<bj****@hoehrmann.de> wrote:

* C A Upsdell wrote in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets:

Part of the HTML spec too. But beware: some old browsers can't handle
the 3-digit colours. Which HTML spec (and according to which section in that spec?)

Y'know, I took a look at both the HTML 4.01 and CSS 2 specs. The HTML
spec says nothing about the length of a hex colour code; the CSS spec
says that the code can be either 3 or 6 digits. So I'm not sure what
this means:...

It means it is not defined... Please write to ww*************@w3.org to
report errors in the HTML/XHTML specifications.

And since when is a "color" information of interest in a markup
language?

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JRS: In article <ud********************************@4ax.com>, dated
Wed, 29 Dec 2004 23:34:32, seen in news:comp.infosystems.www.authoring.s
tylesheets, Big Bill <kr***@cityscape.co.uk> posted :

Subject: What's with three letter colours now? as opposed to six letter colours?

I'm seeing body {color: #fff; background: #000;} and stuff lately.
Is this a new form of abbreviation?

(1) The body of a News article should be related to, but not dependent
on, the Subject line.

(2) I note that others have, while being keen to score points, not
provided an explanation. So see

Cascading Style Sheets, level 1
W3C Recommendation 17 Dec 1996
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/REC-CSS1

which includes :-

6.3 Color units

...

The format of an RGB value in hexadecimal notation is a '#' immediately
followed by either three or six hexadecimal characters. The three-digit
RGB notation (#rgb) is converted into six-digit form (#rrggbb) by
replicating digits, not by adding zeros. For example, #fb0 expands to
#ffbb00. This makes sure that white (#ffffff) can be specified with the
short notation (#fff) and removes any dependencies on the color depth of
the display.

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