Colors

When providing a value for style attributes that define a color, you can specify a generic color name or its RGB value.

This section describes how to specify a value for style attributes defining colors, such as textColor.

Syntax

{ generic-color | #rrggbb }
  1. generic-color is any of the predefined colors supported by the language.
  2. #rrggbb is a numerical color defined by a red/green/blue specification.

Usage

In most cases it is not possible to know what a potential end-user might expect regarding the font family. Therefore, your application should avoid the usage of explicit font families and use only the fontWeight/fontStyle/fontSize properties. A specific font family should be used only if the client can't determine a proper default font family for the desired platform.

The language defines a set of generic color names, interpreted by the front end according to the graphical capability of the workstation.

Generic color names

Use generic color names, to keep your style definitions portable accros several front-end types.

Table 1. Generic color names
Generic color name Visual result (1) RGB value 
black
 

#000000
 
blue
 

#0000FF
 
cyan
 

#00FFFF
 
darkBlue
 

#00008B
 
darkCyan
 

#008B8B
 
darkGray
 

#A9A9A9
 
darkGreen
 

#006400
 
darkMagenta
 

#8B008B
 
darkOlive
 

#505000
 
darkOrange
 

#FF8C00
 
darkRed
 

#8B0000
 
darkTeal
 

#005050
 
darkYellow
 

#AAAA00
 
gray
 

#808080
 
green
 

#008000
 
lightBlue
 

#ADD8E6
 
lightCyan
 

#E0FFFF
 
lightGray
 

#D3D3D3
 
lightGreen
 

#90EE90
 
lightMagenta
 

#FFC0FF
 
lightOlive
 

#AAAA44
 
lightOrange
 

#FFCC00
 
lightRed
 

#FF8080
 
lightTeal
 

#33CCCC
 
lightYellow
 

#FFFFE0
 
magenta
 

#FF00FF
 
olive
 

#808000
 
orange
 

#FFA500
 
red
 

#FF0000
 
teal
 

#008080
 
white
 

#FFFFFF
 
yellow
 

#FFFF00
Note:
  1. The exact rendered color depends on front-end type.

System color names

System color names can be used to get a color from the current theme of the workstation windowing system:

Table 2. System color names
System color name Meaning 
appWorkSpace
 Background color of multiple document interface 
background
 Desktop background 
buttonFace
 Face color for three-dimensional display elements. 
buttonText
 Text on push buttons. 
grayText
 Grayed (disabled) text. 
highLight
 Item(s) selected in a control. 
highLightText
 Text of item(s) selected in a control 
infoBackground
 Background color for tooltip controls. 
infoText
 Text color for tooltip controls. 
systemAlternateBackground
 Background color of the alternate row in listviews 
window
 Window background. 
windowText
 Text in windows.

RGB notation

In some cases, you may also specify a color with the RGB notation, starting with a # hash character.

Each value of the RGB color specification must be provided in hexadecimal, in the range [00-FF].

Example

<StyleAttribute name="textColor" value="blue" />
<StyleAttribute name="textColor" value="#00FF45" />