Naming a custom color

[waynefrank]

How can I give a custom color a name? I want to define a custom color in a stylesheet and then refer to it by name in the HTML. Then if I want to change the color, I can just change the stylesheet, rather than change each reference on each page.

Thanks,

Wayne McKinstry

[Nightfire]

I think you got the idea of css wrong. You don't need to name a colour in html to get a colour in css to work.

<style type="text/css">
.newcolour{
    color:#e4e4e4;
}
</style>
.....

<p class="newcolour">This is the new colour</p>

[waynefrank]

I should have been more specific. What I want is to define a color for table cell backgrounds. How can I do this, so that they can all be changed from the spreadsheet??

Thanks

[Nightfire]

<style type="text/css">
td{
    background-color:#e4e4e4;
}
</style>

That'll give all table cells the background colour of e4e4e4

[waynefrank]

I realized what I can do

<td background="leftstripcolor.jpg"

for the cells I want to have the background color. I make the jpg the color I want.

[mindlessLemming]

oh dear, what terrible overkill.

/*CSS*/ 
td {background:#ffffff}

OR

<!--HTML-->
<td style="background:#ffffff">

[waynefrank]

I want to make this background color apply to certain cells, and not others. And I wanted to be able to change that color without going thru and changing each page.

What I originally wanted was to be able to define "waynescolor" and then set backgrounds to that. This method with the jpg is the next best thing.

[mindlessLemming]

Originally posted by waynefrank

What I originally wanted was to be able to define "waynescolor" and then set backgrounds to that. This method with the jpg is the next best thing.

No, its not.
The next best thing is this.

.color1{background:#5e0000;}
.color2{background:#460000;}
.color3{background:#ffffcc;}
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<td class="color1">...........
<td class="color2">...........

You get the picture.

P.S, If you really were going to use an image (which you will NEVER need to for a solid colour) you would use .gif, not .jpg.

[Nightfire]

The method with the jpg is the worst thing. You're just adding extra load on your pages for absolutely no reason at all. Now if you said you didn't want it on all cells to start off with, I would've saved you and me the bother of giving you css which is no use to you.

<style type="text/css">
.waynescolor{
    background-color:#ff0000;
}
</style>

Then for the cells you want colouring in,

<td class="waynescolor">

[mindlessLemming]

LOL Nightfire, beat you to it bro