RCSS ColorsBackgrounds

RCSS ColorsBackgrounds

Foreground colour: the ‘color’ property

• color

Value:	<colour>
Initial:	white
Applies to:	all elements
Inherited:	yes
Percentages:	N/A

This property sets the colour of rendered text and text decorations. Unlike CSS, the initial colour is white, not black.

See Syntax for the ways a colour can be written.

Known issue: the colour name fuchsia is not recognised and the declaration is rejected. Use #FF00FF instead.

Background colour

In RCSS, an element’s background can be set as a flat colour but not an image. This functionality (and much more!) instead lies with decorators.

• background-color

Value:	<colour>
Initial:	transparent
Applies to:	all elements
Inherited:	no
Percentages:	N/A

This property sets the color of the element’s generated boxes. The background colour is rendered under a box’s padded area.

• background
  • An alias for background-color. It accepts only a colour; CSS's background: url(...) and other background values are rejected.