# Description

Specifies the color using a color name.

There are 16 valid predefined color names as recognized by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). They are:

`aqua`, `black`, `blue`, `fuchsia`, `gray`, `green`, `lime`, `maroon`, `navy`, `olive`,`purple`, `red`, `silver`, `teal`, `white`, `yellow`

There are over 140 additional color names supported by most browsers. They are listed in the color chart under CSS Basics->CSS Colors.

# Examples

This example sets the paragraph text color to red.

    p {
      color:red;
    }

# Browser Support

Firefox | IE | Chrome | Opera | Safari

# Miscellaneous Information

Defined In: | CSS2