HTML — Part-2

HTML Colors

• HTML supports 140 standard color names.
• Colors can be specified by name (red, tomato) or using RGB values, HEX values, HSL values, RGBA values, and HSLA values.
• rgb(255, 99, 71), #ff6347, hsl(9, 100%, 64%)

1. RGB Color Values

rgb(red, green, blue)

• rgb(0, 0, 0) — black
• rgb(255, 255, 255) — white

2. RGBA Color Values

rgba(red, green, blue, alpha)

The alpha parameter is a number between 0.0 (fully transparent) and 1.0 (not transparent at all)

3. HTML HEX Colors

#rrggbb — Where rr (red), gg (green) and bb (blue) are hexadecimal values between 00 and ff (same as decimal 0–255).

• #ffffff — white
• #000000 — black

4. HTML HSL and HSLA Colors

HSL stands for hue, saturation, and lightness. A- alpha(opacity)

• hsl(0, 100%, 100%) — white
• hsl(0, 0%, 0%) — black

Hue is a degree on the color wheel from 0 to 360. 0 is red, 120 is green, and 240 is blue.

Saturation can be described as the intensity of a color.

100% — pure color, 50% — 50% grey shade on color, 0% completely grey.