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CSS Sass Basics (retired) Speeding up Workflow with Sass Creating a Color Palette

Posted by Dj Dimick
Dj Dimick
7,907 Points

Does the Color Palette variables within Sass work with RGBA values or just the Hexadecimal?

Can this be used for the other coloring styles rather than just Hexadecimal?

1 Answer

Máté Végh
Máté Végh
25,607 Points
Máté Végh
Máté Végh
25,607 Points

Yes, they do! In Sass you can specify your colors in almost any color value: HEX, RGB, RGBA, HSL, HSLA

Sass:

$hex: #007FFF;
$rgb: rgb(0,127,255);
$rgba: rgba(0,127,255,.5);
$hsl: hsl(210,100%,50%);
$hsla: hsla(210,100%,50%,.5);

.element {
  color: $hex;
  color: $rgb;
  color: $rgba;
  color: $hsl;
  color: $hsla;
}

CSS:

.element {
  color: #007FFF;
  color: #007fff;
  color: rgba(0, 127, 255, 0.5);
  color: #007fff;
  color: rgba(0, 127, 255, 0.5);
}

Try it out on www.sassmeister.com

Adnan Pozegić
Adnan Pozegić
12,789 Points
Adnan Pozegić
Adnan Pozegić
12,789 Points

Also keep an eye on that pesky IE support, from the reference:

IE filters require all colors include the alpha layer, and be in the strict format of #AABBCCDD. You can more easily convert the color using the ie_hex_str function. For example:

$translucent-red: rgba(255, 0, 0, 0.5);
$green: #00ff00;
div {
  filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(enabled='false', startColorstr='#{ie-hex-str($green)}', endColorstr='#{ie-hex-str($translucent-red)}');
}