Parsing CSS colors (csscolor.parse)¶

Parsing color values.

csscolor.parse.color(color_string)¶

Parse colors conforming to the CSS 3 color specification.

The CSS 3 Color module supports the following formats:

• papayawhip
• #369
• #336699
• rgb(153, 102, 51)
• rgba(153, 102, 51, 0.5)
• rgb(60%, 40%, 20%)
• rgba(60%, 40%, 20%, 0.5)
• hsl(128, 128, 102)
• hsla(128, 128, 102, 0.5)
• hsl(50%, 50%, 40%)
• hsla(50%, 50%, 40%, 0.5)

The following additional formats are supported:

• 0x336699 # Python style hex values
• rgb(0.6, 0.4, 0.2)
• rgba(0.6, 0.4, 0.2, 0.5)
• hsl(0.5, 0.5, 0.4)
• hsla(0.5, 0.5, 0.4, 0.5)

where the decimal is required, so

• rgb(1.0, 1.0, 1.0) # white
• rgb(1, 1, 1) # almost black