Abstract. Web archive 2008

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

This specification is one of the “modules” for the upcoming CSS level 3 (CSS3) specification. It not only describes the color related properties and values that already exist in CSS1 and CSS2, but also proposes new properties and values for CSS3 as well. The Working Group doesn’t expect that all implementations of CSS3 will implement all properties or values. Instead, there will probably be a small number of variants of CSS3, so-called “profiles”. For example, it may be that only the profile for 32-bit color user agents will include all of the proposed color related properties and values.

The specification is the result of the merging of relevant parts of the following Recommendations and Working Drafts, and the addition of some new features.

• HTML 4.01 [HTML401]
• CSS 2.0 [CSS2]
• SVG 1.0 [SVG10]
• Color Profiles for CSS3 (22 June 1999) [CSSICCPROF]
• User Interface for CSS3 (16 February 2000) [CSSUI]