Color Palette

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Color Palette

The palette may present the following color tabs: Browser Safe Palette, Named Colors and Custom Colors. The available tabs are defined within the CommonSpot Administrator interface. When you fly over a color in the Named Colors palette, the actual name of the color is displayed. Select the preferred color by clicking on it or enter the name if available; otherwise enter the RGB corresponding number.

The tabs within this dialog are:

The Safe Palette tab lets you select colors that all display monitors are able to show. At one time, the number of colors that the monitor could display was limited. Choosing from these values meant that the browser could accurately depict the color you select. (If a "non-safe" color were chosen, the browser would simulate the color.) Few modern monitors have these constraints.
The Named Colors tab presents colors that have names that are defined as standards. Knowing these names can often be helpful. For example, a site administrator might tell you to use a color named Brown. Browsers use additional names and many are compatible across browsers.
If you see a Custom Colors tab, the tab was created at your site. See your site administrator for more information.

Color Text Field - Type the color name or the hexadecimal color value (Red-Green-Blue) value where the first two colors represent red, and so on, into this text field. You must type a "#" before the number.

If the Element displays rows of information, this dialog will have an Alternate row check box. If you select this check box, you can enter the color that CommonSpot uses when displaying every other row using the controls that immediately follows.

Related Links

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