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.
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