Colors in markup

[csharpfritz]

In Web Forms, you were able to set attribute values for colors to either a color name or to an HTML hex color representation. In our components, you're forced in a Color object

[Code-DJ]

Is this supported? WebForms uses TypeConverter to handle this, but it appears this isn't fully implemented in Razor. Am I missing something?

dotnet/aspnetcore#8493

[csharpfritz]

One idea I had considered was wrapping the System.Drawing.Color type as WebColor and provide and implicit conversion from string to WebColor that inspects and does the appropriate conversion.

WebColor should simply delegate to the System.Drawing.Color object while providing a good ToHtmlString() method that allows us to format the WebColor for our markup styles.

We could use the same static type architecture trick that we are using in BlazorWebFormsComponents.Enums.RepeatLayout to deliver this feature