# Colors Element

Contains the document's color table.

Each document contains a single color table, which lists the 24 standard colors that are available for application to objects such as shapes, text, and layers in the document.

## Syntax

    <Colors>
    </Colors>

## Attributes

None

## Element properties

Property | Value
--- | ---
Name | Colors
Minimum Occurrences | 0
Maximum Occurrences | 1

## Element information

Parent elements

VisioDocument

Child elements

ColorEntry

## Example

The following example is a typical color table for a Microsoft Office Visio document.

    <Colors>
      <ColorEntry IX="0" RGB="#000000" />
      <ColorEntry IX="1" RGB="#FFFFFF" />
      <ColorEntry IX="2" RGB="#FF0000" />
      <ColorEntry IX="3" RGB="#00FF00" />
      <ColorEntry IX="4" RGB="#0000FF" />
      <ColorEntry IX="5" RGB="#FFFF00" />
      <ColorEntry IX="6" RGB="#FF00FF" />
      <ColorEntry IX="7" RGB="#00FFFF" />
      <ColorEntry IX="8" RGB="#800000" />
      <ColorEntry IX="9" RGB="#008000" />
      <ColorEntry IX="10" RGB="#000080" />
      <ColorEntry IX="11" RGB="#808000" />
      <ColorEntry IX="12" RGB="#800080" />
      <ColorEntry IX="13" RGB="#008080" />
      <ColorEntry IX="14" RGB="#C0C0C0" />
      <ColorEntry IX="15" RGB="#E6E6E6" />
      <ColorEntry IX="16" RGB="#CDCDCD" />
      <ColorEntry IX="17" RGB="#B3B3B3" />
      <ColorEntry IX="18" RGB="#9A9A9A" />
      <ColorEntry IX="19" RGB="#808080" />
      <ColorEntry IX="20" RGB="#666666" />
      <ColorEntry IX="21" RGB="#4D4D4D" />
      <ColorEntry IX="22" RGB="#333333" />
      <ColorEntry IX="23" RGB="#1A1A1A" />
    </Colors>

## See also

Colors collection

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