The Direct color option is disabled and I have data with hex colors

[mscherotter]

I have data with a hex value but the option to use direct color is disabled.

[danmarshall]

Does the Column Types dialog show that it Is Color Data?

[mscherotter]

It is not listed there and it is not in every row - some values do not have an Avatar color column.

[danmarshall]

I think null values may cause the column to invalidate as color. Can you populate a default color value in your data?

[mscherotter]

I populated with default values and see them in the column types:

but the direct color option is still disabled:

[danmarshall]

Looks like #RRGGBB formats are being parsed as date types 🤨 I'll keep digging on that issue. Workaround for now would be to use rgb(rr,gg,bb) format.

Once it's enabled it will appear in the menu under a Direct Color heading:

[HorstBaerbel]

Not sure if this is related: I have #rrggbb colors and they are detected as direct color "field csscolor contains direct color", but are read / displayed wrong. The RGB values are mapped to XYZ and the plot is colored by csscolor (#rrggbb). The plot should have a smooth color gradient: Here is the .csv

Same data in plotly:

Tell me when I should open a new issue...

[danmarshall]

@HorstBaerbel can you provide a repro case?

[HorstBaerbel]

@HorstBaerbel can you provide a repro case?

It's a bit on the big side, but I hope it helps: colorfit_objects.csv

[HorstBaerbel]

@danmarshall The color error has not been fixed for me. csscolor is still wrong (same as last two images and can repo it with the casv). Should I open a new issue?

[danmarshall]

@HorstBaerbel - I've just reopened this issue. It would help if we could get a smaller dataset which repro's the error.