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I have the color theme of a website I'm working on change on refresh and would like to display the css background color attribute in my HTML. Is that possible?

i.e.

<footer>The color of the moment is <insert the background color attribute>. Refresh for a makeover</footer>

would display something like

"The color of the moment is #DB0C0C. Refresh for a makeover"

Since the hex color changes based on the style sheet loaded, I don't want to hardcode it. If I had a ruby variable @color which = #ff0000 and wanted to display it in html I could do something like 

<%= @color%>

I'm wondering if there is any way to do something similar to access a CSS attribute.

bsiddiqui
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You don't even need jQuery for this.. you can use just vanilla javascript with .getComputedStyle():

<span id='color-map'></span>

var element = document.getElementById("id-goes-here");
var style = window.getComputedStyle(element);

document.getElementById('color-map').innerHTML = style.backgroundColor;

However, it would appear that this does not give the color as a hex, but rather an 'rpg(x, y, z)' string. To get the hex from that, you can parse it using regex and return the result:

function rgbsToHex(str) {
    var hex = "#";
    var matches = str.match(/rgb\((\d+),\s(\d+),\s(\d+)\)/);
    hex += Number(matches[1]).toString(16);
    hex += Number(matches[2]).toString(16);
    hex += Number(matches[3]).toString(16);
    return hex;
}

DEMO

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You can use the .css() function in jQuery. 

$('footer').find('span').text($('.bg').css('background-color'));

This will give you the color in rgb, if you would like to show it in HEX then check this for more info.

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