Convert RGB color value to RGBA at 0.75 alpha

Question

I have the following code to get the background color of an element.

var currentColor = $(this).css('background-color');

which returns something like rgb(123,123,123)

What I now want to do convert this to rgba and show it at 0.75 alpha

So returning something like rgba(123,123,123,0.75)

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Since jQuery always seems to return the color like rgb(r, g, b) for elements that have no alpha, you could simply use:

$(this).css('background-color').replace(')', ', 0.75)').replace('rgb', 'rgba');

Just make sure the background color isn't rgba already:

var bg = $(this).css('background-color');
if(bg.indexOf('a') == -1){
    var result = bg.replace(')', ', 0.75)').replace('rgb', 'rgba');
}