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16 True System Colors
                                                                               
Internet Explorer Palette
To see the hexidecimal RGB triplet of any color, simply move your mouse over that color and look at the link name that will be displayed in your status bar.
To manage the color space that Windows presents, Internet Explorer creates a "fixed" palette of 216 colors that it uses to display all images and other "colored" resources that might be on the pages it is trying to display.

If a Web page uses a specific RGB color that is not within this palette or (coincidentally) not available from one of the remaining color slots in the 256-color palette, Internet Explorer will use the closest match that it can find on the palette. This means that you might not get the exact color you are asking for on your pages, but you will get something very close.

Obviously, the best approach to take is to select the colors for your content from the colors that Internet Explorer is prepared to use. I have prepared a color table that shows the 20 system colors that are always available, as well as the 216 colors that Internet Explorer sets into its palette.

216 Internet Explorer Colors
                                                                                         
                                                                                         
                                                                                         
                                                                                         
                                                                                         
                                                                                         
                                                                                         
                                                                                         
                                                                                         
                                                                                         
                                                                                         
                                                                                         
The 16 Named Colors
Black Silver Gray White
Maroon Red Purple Fuchsia
Green Lime Olive Yellow
Navy Blue Teal Aqua
Robert B. Hess
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