This was a surprise. The following code does not seem to give me the actual colors on the screen:
h1 = document.querySelector("h1");
window.getComputedStyle(h1).color
Gives rgb(0, 0, 0)
which I think is correct. However
window.getComputedStyle(h1).backgroundColor
gives rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)
. The actual background color I see on the screen is white.
The element I call h1 is visible on the screen. I was expecting to get the actual background color. The value I get above (in rgba) is not wrong, but not very useful either. It just tells me the background is fully transparent - and that is not a color.
How do I get the actual background color in RGB?
If you set your background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0
) in your css; getComputedStyle()
will return transparent
(in some browsers) instead of your rgba value.
Easy fix for this is setting alpha to something higher than 0 for example
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.01
); This will return rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.01
)
getComputedStyle(h1)
provides the css value of element after applied in active stylesheet.
Which means you can get those css value only which applied to particular element in any way.
Eg:- if you applied background for h1 :RGB{255, 255, 255},
then you will get the background color white in rgb format otherwise not. It does not provide value for html's default style.
To get the value by getComputedStyle()
, First you should apply this to element.
For more info getComputedStyle()