How to get hex color value rather than RGB value?

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Using the following jQuery will get the RGB value of an element's background color:

$('#selector').css('backgroundColor');

Is there a way to get the hex value rather than the RGB?

rgb hex colors jquery javascript
23 Answers

Short

// c - color str e.g."rgb(12,233,43)", result color hex e.g. "#0ce92b"
let rgb2hex=c=>'#'+c.match(/\d+/g).map(x=>(+x).toString(16).padStart(2,0)).join``


// rgb - color str e.g."rgb(12,233,43)", result color hex e.g. "#0ce92b"
let rgb2hex= c=> '#'+c.match(/\d+/g).map(x=>(+x).toString(16).padStart(2,0)).join``

console.log(rgb2hex("rgb(12,233,43"));

user_8600990

Improved function "hex"

function hex(x){
    return isNaN(x) ? "00" : hexDigits[x >> 4] + hexDigits[x & 0xf];
    // or option without hexDigits array
    return (x >> 4).toString(16)+(x & 0xf).toString(16);
}
user_152569580

Convert RGB to Hex

I am using Jasmine protractor and I was getting errors like - Expected [ 'rgba(255, 255, 255, 1)' ] to contain '#fff'. Below function worked fine for me.

function RGBAToHexA(test:string) {
let sep = test.toString().indexOf(",") > -1 ? "," : " ";
const rgba = test.toString().substring(5).split(")")[0].split(sep);
console.log(rgba)
let r = (+rgba[0]).toString(16),
  g = (+rgba[1]).toString(16),
  b = (+rgba[2]).toString(16),
  a = Math.round(+rgba[3] * 255).toString(16);

    if (r.length == 1)
        r = "0" + r;
    if (g.length == 1)
        g = "0" + g;
    if (b.length == 1)
        b = "0" + b;
    if (a.length == 1)
        a = "0" + a;

return "#" + r + g + b + a;

}

describe('Check CSS', function() {
 
it('should check css of login page', async function(){
        browser.waitForAngularEnabled(true);
        browser.actions().mouseMove(element(by.css('.btn-auth, .btn-auth:hover'))).perform(); // mouse hover on button
        csspage.Loc_auth_btn.getCssValue('color').then(function(color){
            console.log(RGBAToHexA(color))
            expect( RGBAToHexA(color)).toContain(cssData.hoverauth.color);

        })
user_130201190

To all the Functional Programming lovers, here is a somewhat functional approach :)

const getHexColor = (rgbValue) =>
  rgbValue.replace("rgb(", "").replace(")", "").split(",")
    .map(colorValue => (colorValue > 15 ? "0" : "") + colorValue.toString(16))
    .reduce((acc, hexValue) => acc + hexValue, "#")

then use it like:

const testRGB = "rgb(13,23,12)"
getHexColor(testRGB)
user_59273200

my compact version

//Function to convert rgb color to hex format
function rgb2hex(rgb) {
    if(/^#/.test(rgb))return rgb;// if returns colors as hexadecimal
    let re = /\d+/g;
    let hex = x => (x >> 4).toString(16)+(x & 0xf).toString(16);
    return "#"+hex(re.exec(rgb))+hex(re.exec(rgb))+hex(re.exec(rgb));
}

user_152569580

full cases (rgb, rgba, transparent...etc) solution (coffeeScript)

 rgb2hex: (rgb, transparentDefault=null)->
    return null unless rgb
    return rgb if rgb.indexOf('#') != -1
    return transparentDefault || 'transparent' if rgb == 'rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)'
    rgb = rgb.match(/^rgba?\((\d+),\s*(\d+),\s*(\d+)(?:,\s*(\d+))?\)$/);
    hex = (x)->
      ("0" + parseInt(x).toString(16)).slice(-2)

    '#' + hex(rgb[1]) + hex(rgb[2]) + hex(rgb[3])
user_25059040
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