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In previous examples colors were used to distinguish elements. Property color describes the foreground color of the element's text content, background-color the color of containing box. The color can be described in several ways one of them is through usage of 16 keyword color names defined by HTML 4.0: aqua, black, blue, fuchsia, gray, green, lime, maroon, navy, olive, purple, red, silver, teal, white, and yellow. (1).

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(1)
     <AAA>
          <aqua>aqua</aqua>
          <black>black</black>
          <blue>blue</blue>
          <fuchsia>fuchsia</fuchsia>
          <gray>gray</gray>
          <green>green</green>
          <lime>lime</lime>
          <maroon>maroon</maroon>
          <navy>navy</navy>
          <olive>olive</olive>
          <purple>purple</purple>
          <red>red</red>
          <silver>silver</silver>
          <teal>teal</teal>
          <white>white</white>
          <yellow>yellow</yellow>
     </AAA>

AAA {background-color:#AAAAAA}
aqua {color:aqua}
black {color:black}
blue {color:blue}
fuchsia {color:fuchsia}
gray {color:gray}
green {color:green}
lime {color:lime}
maroon {color:maroon}
navy {color:navy}
olive {color:olive}
purple {color:purple}
red {color:red}
silver {color:silver}
teal {color:teal}
white {color:white}
yellow {color:yellow}
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