RGB to hex and hex to RGB

Question

How to convert colors in RGB format to hex format and vice versa?

For example, convert \'#0080C0\' to (0, 128, 192).

Answer 1

Here's my version:

function rgb_to_hex(red, green, blue) {
  const rgb = (red << 16) | (green << 8) | (blue << 0);
  return '#' + (0x1000000 + rgb).toString(16).slice(1);
}

function hex_to_rgb(hex) {
  const normal = hex.match(/^#([0-9a-f]{2})([0-9a-f]{2})([0-9a-f]{2})$/i);
  if (normal) return normal.slice(1).map(e => parseInt(e, 16));
  const shorthand = hex.match(/^#([0-9a-f])([0-9a-f])([0-9a-f])$/i);
  if (shorthand) return shorthand.slice(1).map(e => 0x11 * parseInt(e, 16));
  return null;
}

Answer 2

A simple answer for rgb to hex

    function rgbtohex(r,g,b){
        return "#" + (Math.round(r) * 65536 + Math.round(g) * 256 + Math.round(b)).toString(16));
    }

Answer 3

An alternative version of hexToRgb:

function hexToRgb(hex) {
    var bigint = parseInt(hex, 16);
    var r = (bigint >> 16) & 255;
    var g = (bigint >> 8) & 255;
    var b = bigint & 255;

    return r + "," + g + "," + b;
}

Edit: 3/28/2017 Here is another approach that seems to be even faster

function hexToRgbNew(hex) {
  var arrBuff = new ArrayBuffer(4);
  var vw = new DataView(arrBuff);
  vw.setUint32(0,parseInt(hex, 16),false);
  var arrByte = new Uint8Array(arrBuff);

  return arrByte[1] + "," + arrByte[2] + "," + arrByte[3];
}

Edit: 8/11/2017 The new approach above after more testing is not faster :(. Though it is a fun alternate way.

Answer 4

This code accept #fff and #ffffff variants and opacity.

function hex2rgb(hex, opacity) {
        var h=hex.replace('#', '');
        h =  h.match(new RegExp('(.{'+h.length/3+'})', 'g'));

        for(var i=0; i<h.length; i++)
            h[i] = parseInt(h[i].length==1? h[i]+h[i]:h[i], 16);

        if (typeof opacity != 'undefined')  h.push(opacity);

        return 'rgba('+h.join(',')+')';
}

Answer 5

One-line functional HEX to RGBA

Supports both short #fff and long #ffffff forms.
Supports alpha channel (opacity).
Does not care if hash specified or not, works in both cases.

function hexToRGBA(hex, opacity) {
    return 'rgba(' + (hex = hex.replace('#', '')).match(new RegExp('(.{' + hex.length/3 + '})', 'g')).map(function(l) { return parseInt(hex.length%2 ? l+l : l, 16) }).concat(isFinite(opacity) ? opacity : 1).join(',') + ')';
}

examples:

hexToRGBA('#fff')        ->  rgba(255,255,255,1)  
hexToRGBA('#ffffff')     ->  rgba(255,255,255,1)  
hexToRGBA('#fff', .2)    ->  rgba(255,255,255,0.2)  
hexToRGBA('#ffffff', .2) ->  rgba(255,255,255,0.2)  
hexToRGBA('fff', .2)     ->  rgba(255,255,255,0.2)  
hexToRGBA('ffffff', .2)  ->  rgba(255,255,255,0.2)

hexToRGBA('#ffffff', 0)  ->  rgba(255,255,255,0)
hexToRGBA('#ffffff', .5) ->  rgba(255,255,255,0.5)
hexToRGBA('#ffffff', 1)  ->  rgba(255,255,255,1)

Answer 6

For convert directly from jQuery you can try:

  function rgbToHex(color) {
    var bg = color.match(/^rgb\((\d+),\s*(\d+),\s*(\d+)\)$/);
    function hex(x) {
      return ("0" + parseInt(x).toString(16)).slice(-2);
    }
    return     "#" + hex(bg[1]) + hex(bg[2]) + hex(bg[3]);
  }

  rgbToHex($('.col-tab-bar .col-tab span').css('color'))