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Hexadecimal Color Notation on the Web

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Wed
2011
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This will work fine with style notation, but what if you want to use straight html. Html doesn’t recognize the rgb function. In that case, you can specify color using “hexadecimal” notation. Whereas the decimal numbering system uses the characters 0 through 9 to get 10 values, the hexadecimal numbering system uses the characters 0 through f to get 16 values. (After 9 the characters a, b, c, d, e and f are used, as shown below.)

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