Color Names

Predefined Color Names – Alphabetical List

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Question: What color names are supported by JavaScript?
Answer: Old browsers such as Internet Explorer 3.x supported only sixteen color names:

    #00FFFF aqua     #00FF00 lime     #C0C0C0 silver

    #000000 black     #800000 maroon     #008080 teal

    #0000FF blue     #000080 navy     #FFFFFF white

    #FF00FF fuchsia     #808000 olive     #FFFF00 yellow

    #808080 gray     #800080 purple

    #008000 green     #FF0000 red

Newer browsers support many more color names (see an alphabetical list below). You can try all these colors here:

Note: The following pairs of color names are synonyms:

    'aqua'/'cyan'

    'gray'/'grey'

    'magenta'/'fuchsia'

See also:

RGB to Hex color converter
Hex to RGB color converter
Hex to CMYK color converter
RGB to CMYK color converter
RGB to HSV color converter

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