Color Codes

However, most HTML authors, like to use a more specific color representation using a hexadecimal value for each color.
Using hexadecimal values make the range of colors that can be selected exponential.
Color values are based on the theory that any color is a combination of three basic colors: Red, Green and Blue, hence the RGB appreciation.
In hexadecimal codes we use # followed by two digits for each basic color; so, for example, #FF0000 means Red=FF, Green=00, and Blue=00, hence the resulting color is Red, while #00FF00 if a green color and #0000FF is blue.
If we want to make a color darker, we lower the value of its two digits; so, #550000 is dark red, and #005500 is dark green.
A combination of color can be specified, and this is why using this hexadecimal method which provided a very large range of numbering. So, for example; #FFFFFF, means all three colors are selected in full, and that is the definition of the white color, while #000000 is black; #555555 is (dark white), which is gray.
Hexadecimal values are used through any color picking tool, which can exist in HTML code editors as well as graphic tools; i.e. you pic the color, and the tool gives you the hexadecimal values.
Many web pages on the net, provides color palettes with hexadecimal values for each.

If we apply this to our previous example, like this:

                
                    <!doctype html> 

                    <html> 

                    <body> 

                    <p style="color: #333333"> 

                    Any color whatever it be, is a  combination of three colors:

                    </p> 

                    <ul> 

                    <li style="color: #FF0000">Red
                    </li> 

                    <li style="color: #00FF00">Green
                    </li> 

                    <li style="color: #0000FF">Blue
                    </li> 

                    </ul> 

                    </body> 

                    </html>

We get the same result as this:

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