How to get the background color code of an element in hex?
background-color, css, hex, javascript, jquery
Solution
Check example link below and click on the div to get the color value in hex.
var color = '';
$('div').click(function() {
var x = $(this).css('backgroundColor');
hexc(x);
console.log(color);
})
function hexc(colorval) {
var parts = colorval.match(/^rgb\((\d+),\s*(\d+),\s*(\d+)\)$/);
delete(parts[0]);
for (var i = 1; i <= 3; ++i) {
parts[i] = parseInt(parts[i]).toString(16);
if (parts[i].length == 1) parts[i] = '0' + parts[i];
}
color = '#' + parts.join('');
}
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div class='div' style='background-color: #f5b405'>Click me!</div>
Check working example at http://jsfiddle.net/DCaQb/
Problem
How do I get the background color code of an element? ``` console.log($(".div").css("background-color")); ``` ``` <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <div class="div" style="background-color: #f5b405"></div> ``` What I want ``` #f5b405 ```