<html><head></head><body>The value is defined as an hexadecimal rgb code, starting with a #. <br>
I think most data consumers try to decode it with or without a #, its an easy to fix typo.<br>
Yves <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Le 28 septembre 2017 18:59:15 GMT+02:00, James <james2432@gmail.com> a écrit :<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="auto">usually # specifies that it's a hexidecimal number vs a base 10 number. When you have letters A-F it's obvious that it's hexidecimal and can be implecitely converted.<div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">The issue is when you don't have letters:</div><div dir="auto">255</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">in hexadecimal 255 is</div><div dir="auto">2*16^2</div><div dir="auto">+</div><div dir="auto">5*16^1</div><div dir="auto">+</div><div dir="auto">5*16^0</div><div dir="auto">= 512+80+5=597</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">255 base 10 would be represented by ff in hex.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br /><div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 28, 2017 12:08 PM, "Jack Armstrong <a href="mailto:Dancer@sprynet.com">Dancer@sprynet.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:jacknstacy@sprynet.com">jacknstacy@sprynet.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution" /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">It's been my experience that colors render just fine without a '#' before the code number. Is usage of a # prefix really necessary? What problems will occur if it isn't attached? Thanks :)</div></div>
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