CSS RGB and RGBA in CSS
I learned about RGB and RGBA while reading how to define colors in Cascading Style Sheets.
RGB is one notation through which colors may be set using a style sheet for a webpage. The rgb() function takes three numerical values separated by a comma and each representing the colors Red, Blue and Green in the respective order.
The values can be between 0 and 255, inclusive.
rgb(46,139,87)The above example represents a shade of Green.
Using the rgba() function, one may control the alpha channel to adjust the transparency. The function requires a fourth numerical value which can be a decimal value between 0 and 1; the latter being complete opaque and 0 meaning full transparency.
Applying a 50% transparency to the above example would give us:
rgba(46,139,87,0.5)Notice, how the Green further changes its shade.
Read more about Colors & CSS at w3.org.
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