266931 - In JavaScript HEX color values are changed to decimal rgb values

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 110762

(Core :: DOM: CSS Object Model, defect)

Description

[Jesper Kristensen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; da-DK; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; da-DK; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803

when assigning a background-color to an element in JavaScript in the format
#hex, the color are changed to the format rgb(dec,dec,dec)

i have a JavaScript, testing if the color has changed, and unfortunally it
reports true every time because of this

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
see this code:
<script type="text/javascript">
document.getElementById('colorbox').style.backgroundColor = "#abc"
document.writeln("The following lines are identical:<br />")
document.writeln("#abc<br />")
document.writeln(document.getElementById('colorbox').style.backgroundColor)
</script>

Actual Results:  
line 3 is different from line 2

Expected Results:  
line 3 should be the same as line 2

Comment 1

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

I don't think this is a bug... it just reports the current value in a
standardized format...

see http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Style/css.html#CSS-CSSStyleDeclaration
"This interface is also used to provide a read-only access to the computed
values of an element. See also the ViewCSS interface."

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

That's correct. The next revision of the CSSOM specification will be clarified
to REQUIRE that the color value is reported in the canonical rgb() format.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 110762 ***

Comment 3

[Jesper Kristensen]

may i suggest a better search facility in bugzilla? i started searching for
everything containing the words "color" and "JavaScript" and bug 110762
contained both words but was not on the list!