Random CSS Color code

PHP 23 bytes

#<?=md5(rand())&ÿÿÿÿÿÿ;

Where ÿ is character 255. Bitwise and will truncate the string returned from md5, which is already in hexadecimal format.

Three character codes are valid too, so I can save some chars (4095 == 0xfff):

Ruby, 24 23 22 18

'#%03x'%rand(4095)

If I have to use a 6-char one, then:

Ruby, 28 27 26 24 20

Shaved one character off because 8**8-1 == 0xffffff

'#%06x'%rand(8**8-1)

Thanks to chron for the format string, saving 4 chars!

Cheating (with this xkcd strip in mind):

Ruby/JS/Python/Perl/lots more, 6 (or 5)

"#a83"

I assure you, I generated it randomly!

An even cheatier version:

"red"

Javascript

'#'+Math.random().toString(16).substr(2,6)

Just a little shorter at 42.

function randomColor() {
  return '#' + Math.random().toString(16).substr(2, 6);
}

for (var n = 0; n < 16*9; n++) {
  var el = document.createElement('SPAN');
  el.style.backgroundColor = randomColor();
  document.getElementById('demo').appendChild(el);
}

span { width: calc(100%/16); 
       height: calc(100vh/9);
       margin-top: -7px; 
       display: inline-block;
     }

<div id='demo'></div>