jQuery Color v2 Beta Release

The jQuery color plugin originally let you animate color effects, so, for example, you could make the background of a block of text flash to red and then to white to draw attention to it. It’s a helpful plugin that’s built into jQuery UI.

The new version now supports RGBA and HSLA values so you can animate using colors that include alpha transparency. What’s neater, is that versions of IE that don’t support RGBA or HSLA will be provided with a “blended” color — a close approximation of what the alpha transparency looks like in other browsers. Neat stuff.

The plugin is more than just a color animator, however. It’s a general purpose tool for creating colors via JavaScript — great for both setting colors on objects and detecting colors that are already set on an object. For example, if you create a new element and want to duplicate the color used by another object on the page, you can read the color on one and set it on another.

You can read more at http://blog.jquery.com/2011/05/31/jquery-color-v2-beta-1-released/