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RCSS: Colours and backgrounds

Victor Luchits edited this page Jan 8, 2018 · 1 revision

Foreground colour: the 'color' property

color

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

This property sets the colour of rendered text and text decorations.

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

Property Comment
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

background is an alias for background-color.

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