html - Do browsers translate HSL to RGB by default in the background?

Question

Do browsers by default translate any color value that is not in RGB like HSL to RGB by default when displaying the color? I did put a hsl color value for the color property in css and when I did inspect the value was hsl, but I did read online how there may be some indirectly translation happening for browser to use RGB value, so thought to ask here. Is there a reason why if the browser does it, anything to do with the display?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65865217/do-browsers-translate-hsl-to-rgb-by-default-in-the-background

Answer 1

Hi welcome to stack overflow, as per the spec:

If the value is translucent, the computed value will be the rgba() corresponding one. If it isn't, it will be the rgb() corresponding one.

Meaning that no matter what is your input, the computed value always results in either rgb or rgba. And it has no thing to do with the display.