Invalid default color in main example

[bobbykjack]

MDN URL

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/input/color

What specific section or headline is this issue about?

"JavaScript" (#javascript)

What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?

The line:

const defaultColor = "blue";

looks wrong. Earlier in the page, there is a specific note:

Setting the value to anything that isn't a valid, fully-opaque, RGB color in hexadecimal notation will result in the value being set to #000000. In particular, you can't use CSS's standardized color names

And the line above should have no effect. For the intended effect, it should probably be:

const defaultColor = "#00f";

What did you expect to see?

const defaultColor = "#00f";

Do you have any supporting links, references, or citations?

No response

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Page report details

• Folder: en-us/web/html/reference/elements/input/color
• MDN URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/input/color
• GitHub URL: https://github.com/mdn/content/blob/main/files/en-us/web/html/reference/elements/input/color/index.md
• Last commit: f2d281d
• Document last modified: 2025-08-06T09:01:21.000Z

[Josh-Cena]

The docs are impending: #40260 but this is valid

[Josh-Cena]

I'm reverting this one in #40622 so we don't have compatibility problems