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5.9. COLOR Property

Property Name

COLOR

Purpose

This property specifies a color used for displaying the calendar, event, todo, or journal data.

Value Type

TEXT

Property Parameters

IANA and non-standard property parameters can be specified on this property.

Conformance

This property can be specified once in an iCalendar object or in "VEVENT", "VTODO", or "VJOURNAL" calendar components.

Description

This property specifies a color that clients MAY use when presenting the relevant data to a user. Typically, this would appear as the "background" color of events or tasks. The value is a case-insensitive color name taken from the CSS3 set of names, defined in Section 4.3 of [W3C.REC-css3-color-20110607].

Format Definition

This property is defined by the following notation:

 color          = "COLOR" colorparam ":" text CRLF
               ; Value is CSS3 color name

 colorparam     = *(";" other-param)

Example

The following is an example of this property

 COLOR:turquoise

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