HTML Colors

If you just wish to pick an HTML color, go to HTML Color Picker Page.

There are three primary colors in HTML webpages - Red, Green and Blue (RGB). All the other colors displayed in a website are made of only these three primary colors.

The primary colors are blended with each other in varying amount to build millions of colors. The saturation of primary colors (RGB) is defined in numeric values from 0 (lowest) to 255 (highest). If you want to get red color output, the numeric value of 'R' (Red) will be 255, while each of 'G' (Green) and 'B' (Blue) will be 0. For white, the numeric value for all three colors will be 255 and for black it will be 0.

In HTML, the most common method to define colors is Hexadecimal system i.e. with three pairs of two alpha-numeric characters starting with '#. In hexadecimal system, 0 is defined by '00' and 255 is defined by 'FF'. Hence, the HTML color codes are:
Red - #FF0000, Green - #00FF00 and Blue - #0000FF

Let's now create a few color codes!

HTML Color Codes
Color (R,G,B)	Color Code (#RRGGBB)	Color
255,0,0	#FF0000	RED
0,255,0	#00FF00	GREEN
0,0,255	#0000FF	BLUE
255,255,255	#FFFFFF	WHITE
0,0,0	#000000	BLACK
255,255,0	#FFFF00	YELLOW

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Defining Colors in webpages

Defining Colors with Names

Colors are defined in three different styles in a webpage. The most simple is to write the name of the color directly like style="background-color:Red;". However, it is not possible to remember the name of many colors. Few HTML colors names which you can use directly are:

Aqua		Black
Blue		Gray
Green		Lime
Maroon		Navy
Orange		Purple
Red		Silver
White		Yellow

Defining Colors with 'rgb' values

Second method to define HTML color in a webpage is to use the values of primary colors which is represented as rgb(RED, GREEN, BLUE) with range from 0 to 255 for each color. For example, Red is defined as rgb(255,0,0).
However, I do not recommend to use this format because still there are many web browsers which do not interpret 'rgb' values.

Defining Colors with Hexadecimal System

As already mentioned, the most common way to define HTML color is to use hexadecimal system. It may look a little difficult at the beginning, but it is very flexible and used widely.