Re: Valid Colour Names from Bjoern Hoehrmann on 2003-07-03 (www-validator-css@w3.org from July 2003)

From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 02:45:04 +0200
To: "Chris Dore" <oesolutions@rogers.com>
Cc: "'Www-Validator-Css'" <www-validator-css@w3.org>
Message-ID: <3f1a7c52.122536337@smtp.bjoern.hoehrmann.de>

* Chris Dore wrote:
>I have the following colour being used:
>
>background-color:dodgerblue;
>
>The validator doesn't pick up dodgerblue as an invalid colour yet I
>cannont find this colour defined in any specs.

SVG 1.0 does and CSS Level 3 will support this color keyword, see 

  http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/

for details.

>Is there a known reason for this?

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=161 (fixed)

Received on Wednesday, 2 July 2003 20:45:31 UTC