>>I tend to use the numeric codes as well, for that reason, there is a subset of names that is consistent, but the full set is not as reliable as the numeric values.
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>For a start, Opera doesn't recognize several codes, and shows them as "white", e.g.: DarkBlue, DarkCyan, LightGrey, and others. I have to open the file with IE to see what the colors are supposed to look like. I'll stick with the RGB-codes.
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>>I also found in the same directory the straight HTML version & XML/HTML versions of files to display special characters (eg accented) as well, they're all zipped up together.
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>I am sure that this, too, will be a useful reference. Thanks.
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>Hilmar.

In the HTML version, change the last document.write in the for loop to use name2[pos], rather than name1[pos], & it should work in Opera - it will then be using the numeric codes.