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title: Color
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<h2>Summary</h2>

<div class="markdown-from-sourecode">
  <p><p>A simple color class returned from <a href='Config.html#get'>Config::get</a> when the value
at the key path is of type &#39;color&#39;.</p>
</p>
</div>

<ul>
</ul>



    <h3>Class Methods</h3>

    <h4 id=parse class="function-name">
      parse(<span class="args"><span class="arg">value</span></span>) <a href="#parse" class="link"></a>
    </h4>

    <div class="function-description markdown-from-sourecode">
      <p><p>Parse a <a href='https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/string'>String</a> or <a href='https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/object'>Object</a> into a <a href='color.html'>Color</a>.</p>
    </p>
    </div>

        <strong>Parameters</strong>
        <table class="arguments">
            <tr>
              <th>Argument</th>
              <th>Description</th>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td style="width:15%;">
                <em>value</em>
              </td>
              <td class="markdown-from-sourecode">

                <p>A <a href='https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/string'>String</a> such as <code>&#39;white&#39;</code>, <code>#ff00ff</code>, or <code>&#39;rgba(255, 15, 60, .75)&#39;</code> or an <a href='https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/object'>Object</a> with <code>red</code>, <code>green</code>, <code>blue</code>, and <code>alpha</code> properties.</p>

              </td>
            </tr>
        </table>

        <strong>Returns</strong>
        <table class="arguments">
          <tr>
            <th>Return Values</th>
          </tr>
          <tr><td class="markdown-from-sourecode"><p>Returns a <a href='color.html'>Color</a> or <code>null</code> if it cannot be parsed.</p>
    </td></tr>
        </table>



    <h3>Instance Methods</h3>

    <h4 id=toHexString class="function-name">
      toHexString(<span class="args"></span>) <a href="#toHexString" class="link"></a>
    </h4>

    <div class="function-description markdown-from-sourecode">
      <p></p>
    </div>


        <strong>Returns</strong>
        <table class="arguments">
          <tr>
            <th>Return Values</th>
          </tr>
          <tr><td class="markdown-from-sourecode"><p>Returns a <a href='https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/string'>String</a> in the form <code>&#39;#abcdef&#39;</code>.</p>
    </td></tr>
        </table>
    <h4 id=toRGBAString class="function-name">
      toRGBAString(<span class="args"></span>) <a href="#toRGBAString" class="link"></a>
    </h4>

    <div class="function-description markdown-from-sourecode">
      <p></p>
    </div>


        <strong>Returns</strong>
        <table class="arguments">
          <tr>
            <th>Return Values</th>
          </tr>
          <tr><td class="markdown-from-sourecode"><p>Returns a <a href='https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/string'>String</a> in the form <code>&#39;rgba(25, 50, 75, .9)&#39;</code>.</p>
    </td></tr>
        </table>