Comments on: The Right Way to Declare RGBa Colors

By: CSS Tooltip | Oncemade

CSS Tooltip | Oncemade — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 07:56:27 +0000

[...] As I mentioned in a previous article, IE doesn't support RGBa. Adding the following styles, wrapped in a conditional comment, will make it work. [...]

By: 12 Killer Tips for Designing in the Browser | Design Shack

12 Killer Tips for Designing in the Browser | Design Shack — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:56:16 +0000

[...] Resources: Check out Oncemade’s article on The Right Way to Declare RGBA Colors. [...]

By: Rodrigo

Rodrigo — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 03:01:20 +0000

It has to be in a completely different CSS rule.

By: Steven Tate

Steven Tate — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:45:56 +0000

Ya, it’s a little strange to not create hexa(#369, 0.8) also. We spent some time with the Safari guys this week and they’re adding quick conversions to their web inspector. Safari 4.0.3 came out yesterday, don’t know if it’s in yet. Anyway, you can click the color in the inspector and it cycles through the different color types.

@Avengelist:

Not only was the order important, but if I remember correctly, the rgb for degraded browsers has to be in a completely different CSS rule!

By: Avangelist

Avangelist — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:24:43 +0000

I look forward to seeing those updates. Presumably the order in which they are declared in this case is quite important? They have to be placed after the hex otherwise they will be over-written with the statements below.

Is this correct?

By: Rodrigo

Rodrigo — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 03:47:04 +0000

Thanks for the comment Avangelist.

You defiantly brought up a good point. I’ll update the post with external links for more details about RGBa.
My intention with the post was to inform the readers that declaring the colors values on the same line don’t work, like many sources have implied. Not to long ago, I was working on a project that needed RGBa colors and I was declaring them like the other tutorials explained. It took me and a co-worker hours of debugging to later find out the problem, which was a simple color declaration on the same line.

By: Avangelist

Avangelist — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:25:21 +0000

I think you have missed a valuable question here.
Why use RGBa? We have been using hex for almost 20yrs, why change? What are the benefits? why are browsers looking at integrating RGBa when RGB is already there?

By: CSS Brigit | The Right Way to Declare RGBa Colors

CSS Brigit | The Right Way to Declare RGBa Colors — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:02:55 +0000

The Right Way to Declare RGBa Colors... The most efficient way to declare RGBa values and don\’t mess up the CSS. ...