How to extract r, g, b, a values from CSS color?

You would do something like:

$.fn.ToRgb = function()
{
    if(this.charAt(0) == "#"){this = this.substring(1,7);} //remove the #
    return {
        R : parseInt(this.substring(0,2) ,16),
        G : parseInt(this.substring(2,4) ,16),
        B : parseInt(this.substring(4,6) ,16),
    }
}

RGB = $('#my_element').css('backgroundColor').ToRgb();


/*
   * console.log(rgb) =>
   * {
   *   R: X
   *   G: X
   *   B: X 
   * }
*/

Pretty simple :)

var c = $('body').css('background-color');
var rgb = c.replace(/^(rgb|rgba)\(/,'').replace(/\)$/,'').replace(/\s/g,'').split(',');

for(var i in rgb) {
  console.log(rgb[i]);
}

Try it here http://jsbin.com/uhawa4

Edit :

var c = $('body').css('background-color');
var rgb = c.replace(/^rgba?\(|\s+|\)$/g,'').split(',');

for(var i in rgb) {
  console.log(rgb[i]);
}

or even simpler way, just aiming at numbers

var c = 'rgba(60,4,2,6)';
var rgb = c.match(/\d+/g);

for(var i in rgb) {
  console.log(rgb[i]);
}