How to check the background-color of an element using jquery

Question

if($(this).css(\"background-color\")==Crimson) 

is this correct ? .css(\"background-color\",\"white\") will change the color, but I don\'t want t

Answer 1

it works like this

if ($("#notify-9").css('background-color')=="rgb(220, 20, 60)") alert("matched");

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