CSS3 guide: 5. color module

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5. CSS3 color module

The CSS3 color module only defines 2 properties: color and opacity, and quite a few ways to express what color an element should have.

It takes over most of the CSS2.1 values, deprecates one set in favor of another CSS3 module and expands it with a number of new ways to express colors.

We cover these topics:
5.1. opacity [webmasterworld.com]
5.2. named colors [webmasterworld.com]
5.3. numeric colors [webmasterworld.com]
5.4. translucent colors [webmasterworld.com]

It seems the relatively well known opacity property has far more powerful translucent individual colors, but finding a good fallback for IE is the challenge for now.

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