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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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