"John Wilson" skrev i melding
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Personally, I tend to shy away from that "&HC0C0FF" stuff
whenever I can.

Seemed like what the OP wanted. And for color it's very familiar for the
ones among us that writes HTML "by hand" in pad-like text editors. But I
guess we're a minority :-)

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HTH. Best wishes Harald
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