It seems that browsers understand a wider range of colour names than I thought.
[link|http://www.crockford.com/wrrrld/color.html|http://www.crockford...wrrrld/color.html]
I did a quick copy-n-edit and they work on foreground colours, too.
[link|http://yceran.org/~wwb/csscolours.html|http://yceran.org/~wwb/csscolours.html]
Tried successfully in Opera and Firefox on Linux and in IE6 on XP.
:-)
Wade.