When it comes to using colors in code, there are several contexts in which you might need to define or manipulate colors. Below are a few common areas where colors are often utilized:

📚 1. HTML/CSS Colors
In web development, you can use colors in your CSS styles. Colors can be defined in multiple formats:

⦁ Hexadecimal: #RRGGBB
 

  .example {
      background-color: #FF5733; /* bright red */
  }
  

⦁ RGB: rgb(R, G, B)
 

  .example {
      color: rgb(255, 87, 51); /* bright red */
  }
  

⦁ HSL: hsl(H, S%, L%)
 

  .example {
      border-color: hsl(12, 100%, 60%); /* bright red */
  }
  

⦁ Named colors:
 

  .example {
      color: red; /* named color */
  }
  

📚 2. Python (using matplotlib)
In Python, you can define colors using libraries like matplotlib.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# Using RGB tuples
plt.plot([1, 2, 3], [1, 4, 9], color=(1, 0, 0))  # Red

# Using named colors
plt.plot([1, 2, 3], [1, 2, 3], color='blue')  # Blue
plt.show()

📚 3. Java (using AWT/Swing)
In Java, you can create colors using the Color class.

import java.awt.Color;

Color red = new Color(255, 0, 0); // RGB
Color blue = Color.BLUE; // Named constant

📚 4. JavaScript
In JavaScript, you can manipulate the DOM or draw on a canvas with colors.

// Changing the background color of an element
document.body.style.backgroundColor = "#FF5733";

// Canvas example
const canvas = document.getElementById('myCanvas');
const context = canvas.getContext('2d');
context.fillStyle = 'rgba(255, 87, 51, 0.5)'; // RGBA
context.fillRect(10, 10, 150, 100);

📚 5. Color Libraries
⦁ Python: Libraries like Pillow for image processing allows colors to be defined in different formats.
⦁ JavaScript: Chroma.js or Color.js libraries allow for advanced color manipulations.

📚 6. Color Converters
Using libraries can also help you manipulate colors:

⦁ Python Example: Using colorsys
 

  import colorsys

  # Convert RGB to HLS
  r, g, b = 1.0, 0.5, 0.0  # example RGB
  h, l, s = colorsys.rgb_to_hls(r, g, b)
  

⦁ JavaScript Example: Using TinyColor
 

  const color = tinycolor("red");
  console.log(color.toHexString()); // Outputs #ff0000
  

📚 7. Attribute Colors in UI Frameworks
⦁ React Native allows you to set color properties on components:

<View style={{ backgroundColor: 'skyblue' }} />

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Chris’ Corner: 10 HTML Hits

Love HTML? Good. It’s very lovable. One of my favorite parts is how you can screw it all up and it still it’s absolute best to render how it thinks you meant. Not a lot of other languages like that. Are there any? English, I suppose lolz. Anyway — I figured I’d just share 10 links about HTML that I’ve save because, well, I personally thought there were interesting and enjoyed learning what they had to teach.

1. The selected date must be within the last 10 years by Gerardo Rodriguez — That’s the requirement. How do you do it? Definitely use the HTML validation features for the date input. But unfortunately, JavaScript will need to be involved to set them, which means timezones and all that.
2. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should: the element by Sophie Koonin — I think the HTML Heat the oven to 350 degrees is hilarious(ly silly). As Sophie puts it, this is the “letter, not the spirit, of semantic HTML.”
3. Fine-tuning Text Inputs by Garrett Dimon — One of those articles that reminds you that there are actually quite a few bonus attributes for HTML inputs and they are all actually pretty useful and you should consider using them.
4. How to think about HTML responsive images by Dan Cătălin Burzo — Speaking of loads of fairly complex attributes, it’s hard to beat responsive images in that regard. Always interesting to read something thinking through it all. This always leads me to the conclusion that it absolutely needs to be automated.
5. Styling an HTML dialog modal to take the full height of the viewport by Simon Willison — Sometimes unexpected browser styles can bite you. DevTools help uncover that of course… if you can see them. I was once very confused about weird behaving dialogs when I set it to be position: relative; (they are fixed by browser styles), so watch for that too.
6. Foundations: grouping forms with and by Demelza Feltham — “Accessible grouping benefits everyone”. Let’s clean up the weird styling of fieldset while we’re at it.
7. HTML Whitespace is Broken by Douglas Parker — I think a lot of us have a developed intuition of how HTML uses or ignores whitespace, but Douglas manages to point out some real oddities I hadn’t thought of clearly defining before. Like if there is a space both before and after a , the space will collapse, but with the single space be part of the link or not? Formatters struggle with this as their formatting can introduce output changes. It’s one reason I like JSX because it’s ultra opinionated on formatting and how spacing is handled.
8. A highly configurable switch component using modern CSS techniques by Andy Bell — We’ve got coming (it’s in Safari now), but if you can’t wait you can build your own, as long as you are careful.
9. Building a progress-indicating scroll-to-top button in HTML and CSS by Manuel Matuzović — I like that trick where you can use scroll-driven animations to only reveal a “scroll back to the top” button after you’ve scrolled down a bit. I also like Manuel’s idea here where the button itself fills up as you scroll down. I generally don’t care for scroll progress indicators, but this is so subtle it’s cool.
10. Test-driven HTML and accessibility by David Luhr — I’ve written Cypress tests before and this echos of that but feels kinda lower level. It’s interesting looking at Server JavaScript executing DOM JavaScript with expect tests. I suppose it’s a bit like building your own aXe.

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Chris’ Corner: Fairly Fresh CSS

I joked while talking with Adam Argyle on ShopTalk the other day that there is more CSS in one of the demos we were looking at that I have in my whole CSS brain. We were looking at his Carousel Gallery which is one of the more impressive sets of CSS demos I’ve ever seen. Don’t let your mind get too stuck on that word “carousel”. I think it’s smart to use that word here, but the CSS technologies being developed here have an incredible number of uses. Things that relate to scrolling interactivity, inertness, column layout, and more. Some of it is brand spanking new. In fact just a few weeks ago, I linked up the Carousel Configurator and said:

It only works in Google Chrome Canary because of experimental features.

Which was kind of true at the time, but the features aren’t that experimental anymore. All the features went live in Chrome 135 which is in stable release now for the world. Of course, you’ll need to think in terms of progressive enhancement if you’re looking to roll this stuff out to production, but this is real world movement on some huge stuff for CSS. This stuff is in the category where, looking a few years out, it’s a real mistake if carousels and carousel-like behavior isn’t built this way. This is the way of best performance, best semantics, and best accessibility, which ain’t gonna get beat with your MooTools Super Slider ok. Brecht is already bloggin’ about it. That’s a finger on the pulse right there.

What else is pretty hot ‘n’ fresh in CSS land?

* CSS multicol block direction wrapping by Rachel Andrew — The first implementation of of columns being able to wrap down instead of across. Useful.
* Can you un-mix a mixin? by Miriam Suzanne — Mixins are likely to express themselves as @apply in CSS eventually (despite being abandoned on purpose once?). We can already sort of do it with custom properties and style queries, which actually have the desirable characteristic of cascading. What will @apply do to address that?
* Feature detect CSS @starting-style support by Bramus Van Damme — Someday, @supports at-rule(@starting-style) {} will work, but there (🫥) is no browser support for that yet. There is a way to do it with the space toggle trick fortunately (which is one of the most mind bending things ever in CSS if you ask me). I feel like mentioning that I was confused how to test a CSS function recently, but actually since they return values, it’s not that weird. I needed to do @supports (color: light-dark(white, black) {} which worked fine. Related to @starting-style, this is a pretty good article.
* New Values and Functions in CSS by Alvaro Montoro — speaking of new functions, there are a good number of them, like calc-size(), first-valid(), sibling-index(), random-item(), and more. Amazing.
* A keyframe combo trick by Adam Argyle — Two animations on a single element, one for the page load and one for a scroll animation. They fight. Or do they?
* Container Queries Unleashed by Josh Comeau — If you haven’t boned up on the now-available-everyone @container stuff, it rules, and Josh does a great job of explaining why.
* A Future of Themes with CSS Inline if() Conditions by Christopher Kirk-Nielsen — Looks like if() in CSS behaves like a switch in other languages and what you’re doing is checking if the value of a custom property is equal to a certain value, then returning whatever value you want. Powerful! Chris is building something like light-dark() here except with more than two themes and where the themes effect more than just color.

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