### Method

# Gdk RGBA parse

#### Declaration [src]

    gboolean
    gdk_rgba_parse (
      GdkRGBA* rgba,
      const char* spec
    )

#### Description [src]

Parses a textual representation of a color.

The string can be either one of:

- A standard name (Taken from the CSS specification).
- A hexadecimal value in the form “#rgb”, “#rrggbb”, “#rrrgggbbb” or ”#rrrrggggbbbb”
- A hexadecimal value in the form “#rgba”, “#rrggbbaa”, or ”#rrrrggggbbbbaaaa”
- A RGB color in the form “rgb(r,g,b)” (In this case the color will have full opacity)
- A RGBA color in the form “rgba(r,g,b,a)”
- A HSL color in the form “hsl(h,s,l)”
- A HSLA color in the form “hsla(h,s,l,a)”

Where “r”, “g”, “b” and “a” are respectively the red, green, blue and alpha color values. In the last two cases, “r”, “g”, and “b” are either integers in the range 0 to 255 or percentage values in the range 0% to 100%, and a is a floating point value in the range 0 to 1. The range for “h” is 0 to 360, and “s”, “l” can be either numbers in the range 0 to 100 or percentages.

#### Parameters

`spec`

  Type: `const char*`

  The string specifying the color.

  The data is owned by the caller of the method.
  The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

#### Return value

Type: `gboolean`

`TRUE` if the parsing succeeded.