Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?

Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?

Any unknown digit in a HTML color code are treated as  zero so using invalid characters in a color code shows different value.

Missing or incorrect digits are treated as 0 in HTML color code.

For example the values #F0F0F0, F0F0F0, F0F0F, #FnFnFn and FnFnFn are all the same.

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For example, use “chucknorris“.

Then replace all non valid hexadecimal characters with 0’s i.e. it becomes c00c0000000.

After that, padding out to the next total number of characters divisible by 3 it becomes c00c 0000 0000.

Then, split into three equal groups i.e.
RGB (c00c, 0000, 0000)

Finally, truncate each of the arguments from the right down to 2 characters i.e.
RGB (c0, 00, 00) = #C00000 i.e. RGB(192, 0, 0)

You can see the example with chucknorris :

<table>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="chucknorris" width="25%">chucknorris</td>
<td bgcolor="crap" width="25%">crap</td>
<td bgcolor="pass" width="25%">pass</td>
<td bgcolor="best" width="25%">best</td>
</tr>
</table>

The result will be: