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HTML Treehouse Club: HTML Publish a Story The Head

Nathan Smith
Nathan Smith
1,559 Points
Posted by Nathan Smith
Nathan Smith
1,559 Points

Are Hexadecimal colors important to learn?

when coding can you just code the style as the name of the color or will you need to know the hexadecimal color types?

Riki Tiilikainen
Riki Tiilikainen
4,042 Points
Riki Tiilikainen
Riki Tiilikainen
4,042 Points

No, I've remembered a few from repetition but that's it. A lot of companies have a style guide document to reference.

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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
220,415 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
220,415 Points

It's not practical to memorize the RGB values for all 140 HTML colors. But reference tables are easy to find online and elsewhere, so there's really not any reason to attempt it.