During this course, we encountered properties whose values are colors. These properties included:
color
background-color
border-color
The hexadecimal RGB model, which stands for Red Green Blue, was used to represent colors. CSS uses two basic types of notation to represent colors in RGB:
rgb(red, green, blue)
function. The function accepts three numbers from 0 to 255, each of which determines the amount of red, green and blueThis one uses hexadecimal notation. The notation is divided into three blocks of two numbers each:
00
to ff
- amount of red color00
to ff
- amount of green color00
to ff
- quantity of blue color/* White Color */
color: #ffffff;
/* Black Color */
color: #000000;
Suppose you want purple for the text. How is it made? To achieve this, red and blue are mixed. There is no green in purple. So, we need to input the maximum in the first and third block. The result is the color #ff00ff
.
You can get different variations of this color by adding or reducing the number of compound colors
The second way to specify a color using the RGB color model is to use the special function rgb()
. It takes three numbers from 0 to 255, where the first number specifies the amount of red, the second the amount of green, and the third the amount of blue. Does that remind you of anything?
If you think it looks like a hexadecimal system, you are right - the idea is exactly the same. Only we write the colors in the numbers we are accustomed to. Otherwise, everything is the same, which means you can create purple using the rgb()
function:
<p class="text">Purple text</p>
.text {
color: rgb(255, 0, 255);
}
And this is what white and black will look like when using rgb()
:
/* White Color */
color: rgb(255, 255, 255);
/* Black Color */
color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
When you use background colors, you often use not just a color on its own, you may also add transparency to it. The RGB color model uses the term "alpha" channel for this purpose. This defines how transparent color should be output and is specified by a number from 0 to 1, where 0 is completely transparent and 1 is completely opaque.
In order to be able to add an alpha channel, the rgba()
function has been created, where a
is alpha
. Otherwise, everything is exactly the same as we learned earlier. Let's make a semi-transparent purple background:
<div class="background">A block with a semi-transparent purple background</div>
.background {
background-color: rgba(255, 0, 255, 0.5);
}
Create a paragraph with the class set to background-black-50
and give it a semi-transparent black background. Use the rgba()
function. Write styles in the <style>
tag.
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