diff --git a/lib/less/browser.js b/lib/less/browser.js
index ae2667d97..cba4c3b61 100644
--- a/lib/less/browser.js
+++ b/lib/less/browser.js
@@ -101,8 +101,14 @@ function loadStyles() {
     for (var i = 0; i < styles.length; i++) {
         if (styles[i].type.match(typePattern)) {
             new(less.Parser)().parse(styles[i].innerHTML || '', function (e, tree) {
-                styles[i].type      = 'text/css';
-                styles[i].innerHTML = tree.toCSS();
+                var css = tree.toCSS();
+                var style = styles[i];
+                try {
+                    style.innerHTML = css;
+                } catch (_) {
+                    style.styleSheets.cssText = css;
+                }
+                style.type = 'text/css';
             });
         }
     }
diff --git a/lib/less/functions.js b/lib/less/functions.js
index 804b9e6f9..2889f112f 100644
--- a/lib/less/functions.js
+++ b/lib/less/functions.js
@@ -147,6 +147,10 @@ tree.functions = {
                 message: "math functions take numbers as parameters"
             };
         }
+    },
+    argb: function (color) {
+        return new(tree.Anonymous)(color.toARGB());
+
     }
 };
 
diff --git a/lib/less/tree/color.js b/lib/less/tree/color.js
index 38d34f85a..bb7646a5c 100644
--- a/lib/less/tree/color.js
+++ b/lib/less/tree/color.js
@@ -15,11 +15,6 @@ tree.Color = function (rgb, a) {
         this.rgb = rgb.match(/.{2}/g).map(function (c) {
             return parseInt(c, 16);
         });
-    } else if (rgb.length == 8) {
-        this.alpha = parseInt(rgb.substring(0,2), 16) / 255.0;
-        this.rgb = rgb.substr(2).match(/.{2}/g).map(function (c) {
-            return parseInt(c, 16);
-        });
     } else {
         this.rgb = rgb.split('').map(function (c) {
             return parseInt(c + c, 16);
@@ -91,6 +86,14 @@ tree.Color.prototype = {
             h /= 6;
         }
         return { h: h * 360, s: s, l: l, a: a };
+    },
+    toARGB: function () {
+        var argb = [Math.round(this.alpha * 255)].concat(this.rgb);
+        return '#' + argb.map(function (i) {
+            i = Math.round(i);
+            i = (i > 255 ? 255 : (i < 0 ? 0 : i)).toString(16);
+            return i.length === 1 ? '0' + i : i;
+        }).join('');
     }
 };
 
diff --git a/test/css/colors.css b/test/css/colors.css
index 373781df3..540f9b065 100644
--- a/test/css/colors.css
+++ b/test/css/colors.css
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@
 #yelow #rgba {
   color: rgba(255, 238, 170, 0.1);
 }
+#yelow #argb {
+  color: #1affeeaa;
+}
 #blue #short {
   color: #00f;
 }
@@ -16,6 +19,9 @@
 #blue #rgba {
   color: rgba(0, 0, 255, 0.1);
 }
+#blue #argb {
+  color: #1a0000ff;
+}
 #alpha #hsla {
   color: rgba(61, 45, 41, 0.6);
 }
diff --git a/test/less/colors.less b/test/less/colors.less
index 5c90bcbb5..5744e1677 100644
--- a/test/less/colors.less
+++ b/test/less/colors.less
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@
   #rgba {
     color: rgba(255, 238, 170, 0.1);
   }
+  #argb {
+    color: argb(rgba(255, 238, 170, 0.1));
+  }
 }
 
 #blue {
@@ -20,6 +23,9 @@
   #rgba {
     color: rgba(0, 0, 255, 0.1);
   }
+  #argb {
+    color: argb(rgba(0, 0, 255, 0.1));
+  }
 }
 
 #alpha #hsla {