How to get hex color value rather than RGB value?

Question

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

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

Is there a

Answer 1

Function that returns background color of an element in hex.

function getBgColorHex(elem){
    var color = elem.css('background-color')
    var hex;
    if(color.indexOf('#')>-1){
        //for IE
        hex = color;
    } else {
        var rgb = color.match(/\d+/g);
        hex = '#'+ ('0' + parseInt(rgb[0], 10).toString(16)).slice(-2) + ('0' + parseInt(rgb[1], 10).toString(16)).slice(-2) + ('0' + parseInt(rgb[2], 10).toString(16)).slice(-2);
    }
    return hex;
}

usage example:

$('#div1').click(function(){
   alert(getBgColorHex($(this));
}

jsfiddle

Answer 2

Here is the cleaner solution I wrote based on @Matt suggestion:

function rgb2hex(rgb) {
    rgb = rgb.match(/^rgb\((\d+),\s*(\d+),\s*(\d+)\)$/);
    function hex(x) {
        return ("0" + parseInt(x).toString(16)).slice(-2);
    }
    return "#" + hex(rgb[1]) + hex(rgb[2]) + hex(rgb[3]);
}

Some browsers already returns colors as hexadecimal (as of Internet Explorer 8 and below). If you need to deal with those cases, just append a condition inside the function, like @gfrobenius suggested:

function rgb2hex(rgb) {
    if (/^#[0-9A-F]{6}$/i.test(rgb)) return rgb;

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

If you're using jQuery and want a more complete approach, you can use CSS Hooks available since jQuery 1.4.3, as I showed when answering this question: Can I force jQuery.css("backgroundColor") returns on hexadecimal format?

Answer 3

Here is my solution, also does touppercase by the use of an argument and checks for other possible white-spaces and capitalisation in the supplied string.

var a = "rgb(10, 128, 255)";
var b = "rgb( 10, 128, 255)";
var c = "rgb(10, 128, 255 )";
var d = "rgb ( 10, 128, 255 )";
var e = "RGB ( 10, 128, 255 )";
var f = "rgb(10,128,255)";
var g = "rgb(10, 128,)";

var rgbToHex = (function () {
    var rx = /^rgb\s*\(\s*(\d+)\s*,\s*(\d+)\s*,\s*(\d+)\s*\)$/i;

    function pad(num) {
        if (num.length === 1) {
            num = "0" + num;
        }

        return num;
    }

    return function (rgb, uppercase) {
        var rxArray = rgb.match(rx),
            hex;

        if (rxArray !== null) {
            hex = pad(parseInt(rxArray[1], 10).toString(16)) + pad(parseInt(rxArray[2], 10).toString(16)) + pad(parseInt(rxArray[3], 10).toString(16));

            if (uppercase === true) {
                hex = hex.toUpperCase();
            }

            return hex;
        }

        return;
    };
}());

console.log(rgbToHex(a));
console.log(rgbToHex(b, true));
console.log(rgbToHex(c));
console.log(rgbToHex(d));
console.log(rgbToHex(e));
console.log(rgbToHex(f));
console.log(rgbToHex(g));

On jsfiddle

Speed comparison on jsperf

A further improvement could be to trim() the rgb string

var rxArray = rgb.trim().match(rx),

Answer 4

Readable && Reg-exp free (no Reg-exp)

I've created a function that uses readable basic functions and no reg-exps.
The function accepts color in hex, rgb or rgba CSS format and returns hex representation.
EDIT: there was a bug with parsing out rgba() format, fixed...

function getHexColor( color ){
    //if color is already in hex, just return it...
    if( color.indexOf('#') != -1 ) return color;
    
    //leave only "R,G,B" :
    color = color
                .replace("rgba", "") //must go BEFORE rgb replace
                .replace("rgb", "")
                .replace("(", "")
                .replace(")", "");
    color = color.split(","); // get Array["R","G","B"]
    
    // 0) add leading #
    // 1) add leading zero, so we get 0XY or 0X
    // 2) append leading zero with parsed out int value of R/G/B
    //    converted to HEX string representation
    // 3) slice out 2 last chars (get last 2 chars) => 
    //    => we get XY from 0XY and 0X stays the same
    return  "#"
            + ( '0' + parseInt(color[0], 10).toString(16) ).slice(-2)
            + ( '0' + parseInt(color[1], 10).toString(16) ).slice(-2)
            + ( '0' + parseInt(color[2], 10).toString(16) ).slice(-2);
}

Answer 5

Since the question was using JQuery, here’s a JQuery plugin based on Daniel Elliott’s code:

$.fn.cssAsHex = function(colorProp) {

    var hexDigits = '0123456789abcdef';

    function hex(x) {
        return isNaN(x) ? '00' : hexDigits[(x - x % 16) / 16] + hexDigits[x % 16];
    };

    // Convert RGB color to Hex format
    function rgb2hex(rgb) {
        var rgbRegex = rgb.match(/^rgb\((\d+),\s*(\d+),\s*(\d+)\)$/);
        return '#' + hex(rgbRegex[1]) + hex(rgbRegex[2]) + hex(rgbRegex[3]);
    };

    return rgb2hex(this.css(colorProp));
};

Use it like:

var hexBackgroundColor = $('#myElement').cssAsHex('background-color');

Answer 6

Try

// 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"));