I've written a jQuery plugin that accepts css colors for some of its parameters.

I want to validate them. If it was just a hex or rgb value I could do that with a regular expression, but how do I validate all 147 valid color names without bloating the plugin?

I was wondering if there is some way of attempting to apply a style (maybe with jquery) and then catching an error from the browser if it is not valid?

Edit: powtac and Pantelis came up with a solution, but they both missed edge cases, so I am including a full solution here: 

```
var validateCssColour = function(colour){
    var rgb = $('<div style="color:#28e32a">');     // Use a non standard dummy colour to ease checking for edge cases
    var valid_rgb = "rgb(40, 227, 42)";
    rgb.css("color", colour);
    if(rgb.css('color') == valid_rgb && colour != ':#28e32a' && colour.replace(/ /g,"") != valid_rgb.replace(/ /g,""))
        return false;
    else
        return true;
};

```