Do you know the hexidecimal value of PapayaWhip? How about BlanchedAlmond? Me either. I’m not a big fan of the System.Drawing.Color structure in the Microsoft .NET Framework. I don’t think the addition of color names makes good framework design sense. Unless you’re an Interior Designer; the majority of these colors won’t make sense to you either.

I’ve recently spent time reworking a few design elements of an ASP.NET website. All design related ASP.NET attributes were replaced with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) where applicable. Unfortunately the website was spattered with named colors from the System.Drawing.Color structure. To help replace these named colors with hexadecimal values, I found the following resource extremely helpful.

http://www.opinionatedgeek.com/DotNet/Tools/Colors/default.aspx

I’ve found a use for the Tab Control that is included with the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit. The control’s default style is passable for now, but I’ve grown tired of looking at the white borders surrounding active tabs. If your background is not white, you’ve probably noticed this too.

To fix this, I’ve edited the images and posted them here. I’m not sure why the two active tab images were missed when all of the other images have transparent borders. Here are the before and after shots. Please don’t use these.

Before		After