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CSS System Colors

Deprecated. In addition to being able to assign pre-defined color values to text, backgrounds, etc., CSS2 allowed authors to specify colors in a manner that integrated them into the user's graphic environment.

For systems that do not have a corresponding value, the specified value should be mapped to the nearest system color value, or to a default color. Note that some profiles of CSS may not support System Colors at all.

The following lists additional values for color-related CSS values and their general meaning. Any color property can take one of the following names. Although these are case-insensitive, it is recommended that the mixed capitalization shown below be used, to make the names more legible.

ActiveBorder

Active window border.

ActiveCaption

Active window caption.

AppWorkspace

Background color of multiple document interface.

Background

Desktop background.

ButtonFace

Face color for three-dimensional display elements.

ButtonHighlight

Dark shadow for three-dimensional display elements (for edges facing away from the light source).

ButtonShadow

Shadow color for three-dimensional display elements.

ButtonText

Text on push buttons.

CaptionText

Text in caption, size box, and scrollbar arrow box.

GrayText

Grayed (disabled) text. This color is set to #000 if the current display driver does not support a solid gray color.

Highlight

Item(s) selected in a control.

HighlightText

Text of item(s) selected in a control.

InactiveBorder

Inactive window border.

InactiveCaption

Inactive window caption.

InactiveCaptionText

Color of text in an inactive caption.

InfoBackground

Background color for tooltip controls.

InfoText

Text color for tooltip controls.

Menu

Menu background.

MenuText

Text in menus.

Scrollbar

Scroll bar gray area.

ThreeDDarkShadow

Dark shadow for three-dimensional display elements.

ThreeDFace

Face color for three-dimensional display elements.

ThreeDHighlight

Highlight color for three-dimensional display elements.

ThreeDLightShadow

Light color for three-dimensional display elements (for edges facing the light source).

ThreeDShadow

Dark shadow for three-dimensional display elements.

Window

Window background.

WindowFrame

Window frame.

WindowText

Text in windows.

p { color: WindowText; background-color: Window }

Note. The computed value of a System Color keyword value is the keyword itself.

The CSS2 System Color values have been deprecated in favor of the CSS3 UI 'appearance' property for specifying the complete look of user interface related elements.

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