[css-color-4] Clarify that `none` is allowed in calculations

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#13,752 opened on Apr 1, 2026 2 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 4/5
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Issue type: Documentation
Clarity: Mostly clear
Activity status: Quiet
Tech stack: css
Domain: documentation, web-dev

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Review the relative color syntax passages quoted in the issue and the discussions in #10151, #10211, and #10280. Check the current WPT coverage and the noted browser behavior before determining what the CSS Color 4 text should clarify. Done means the specification's treatment of none in calculations is unambiguous and any needed tests or examples are addressed.

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css-color-4

Discussions and resolutions in #10151, #10211, #10280, suggest that none is allowed in calculations in color functions, with examples explicitly using none inside a math function, which seems unspecified, as opposed to RCS component keywords (emphasize added):

If an origin color is specified, the remaining arguments can either be specified directly, as normal, or be specified as a component keyword referring to one of the components of the origin color converted to the color space of the relative color. Math functions can also use these keywords to do dynamic modifications of the origin color’s components.

Within a relative color syntax rgb() or rgba() function, the allowed component keywords are:

r, g, and b [...]

alpha [...]

This does not seem to be backed by any test on WPT, or supported in current versions of Chrome and FF (ESR).

Of course, if a relative color uses a math function containing a component keyword representing a channel value of the origin color that is specified with none, resolving the math function will require resolving none. But this does not imply allowing it in calculations, as long as it does not show up in the serialization of the resolved color value (the declared color value preserves the specified component keywords).

And I do not see how allowing it can be useful to authors.

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