Title: Does not recognize hex color code
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Does not recognize hex color code

 *  [Tom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tom-hickey/)
 * (@tom-hickey)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-not-recognize-hex-color-code/)
 * Search Everything seems to be confused about hex color code for highlighting.
   Using a code like “#ff3300” works fine, as does “blue” or “red”, but not “#C6E8FB”–
   a valid hex color code – throwing up the message “Oops, there are errors in your
   submit:
    field Highlight Background Color should be a css color (‘red’ or ‘#abc123’)”
 * Is Search Everything color blind? 🙂
 * Search Everything version 8.1.3
    WordPress 4.2.2 Genesis 2.1.2
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-everything/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-everything/)

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 *  [redsand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/redsand/)
 * (@redsand)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-not-recognize-hex-color-code/#post-6333268)
 * Hey Tom. Yeah, there’s a flaw in the validation where it only accepts lowercase
   hex values. It also allows any random lowercase word…so they need to fix that.
   I posted a detailed support request with the fixes here: [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-saving-css-colors-on-settings-page?replies=2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-saving-css-colors-on-settings-page?replies=2)
 * If you want to fix it yourself until they patch it, just skip to my 2nd post 
   at the bottom, and it’s got an easy fix.

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