changing colors with jquery with a color picker?

Question

i have this jquery script that changes the color of the background instantly by entering a color code into the textbox, the working example is in jsfiddle link below.

http://jsfiddle.net/7jg4e/

but instead of the input field i wanted to use a color picker custom skin, becuase i dont want user to deal with hex code(just like twitter). the jquery plugin im trying to use is found at

http://www.eyecon.ro/colorpicker/

at the buttom of the page it has the neat color picker with DOM element.

so the problem is how am i going to change from the input type to the color picker div. thanks :))

Solution 1

Replace the input element with a div use something like: (untested!)

HTML

<div id='colourPicker'></div>

JS

$('#colourPicker').ColorPicker({
  onChange: function(hsb, hex, rgb){
    $("#full").css("background-color", '#' + hex);
  }
});

There's an example at the bottom of the link you have which shows you how.

Update for changing text

HTML

<div id='colourPickerText'></div>
<div id='textToBeChanged'>Test text</div>

JS

$('#colourPickerText').ColorPicker({
  onChange: function(hsb, hex, rgb){
    $("#textToBeChanged").css("color", '#' + hex);
  }
});

Solution 2

Just as further reference... HTML5 already include "color" as an Input type.

<label for="bg">Choose color:</label> 
<input id="bg" type="color" />

Plus, you can apply some css style with:

input[type="color"]{/*css-here*/}

Now, for the main question... you can capture the color value to change the bg-color with a simple script. Live example: http://jsfiddle.net/7jg4e/152/

Solution 3

How about:

$('#colorSelector').ColorPicker({
onChange: function(hsb, hex, rgb)
          {
            $("#full").css("background-color", hex);
          }
});

Solution 4

Thanks keithics..

I had the similar problem. I had to call colorpicker for dynamic buttons. I did with taking class instead of id.

It helped me a lot.

$('.colorSelector').ColorPicker({
onChange: function(hsb, hex, rgb,el)
      {
        $(el).val('#' + hex);
      }
});

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Comments

[getaway]

what about the html side of things

[getaway]

thanks for the great answer, but imagine i wanted to chnage the color of the text aswell, how is the div color picker in the html going to differentiate from the two color pickers +upvote from me :))

[Nathan MacInnes]

Just have a <div id="colourSelector"></div> as your colour selector box, and then your <xxx id="full"> will change whenever it's used.

[Fermin]

Updated answer to show how to change color of text, you could have 2 colour pickers on the form, one for background and one for text.

[getaway]

can i ask you one more question, sorry, how do i get the value(hex), when the color is sumbited, so i can save it in the database!! im so confused

[Fermin]

Use the onChange event, you will get the hex value there. See TheVillageIdiots jsFiddle to see how to use the OnChange method.

[Avinash]

first install use this command to instal angular color picker "npm install ngx-color-picker --save" in above code no need to use "let drawingBuffer" just use drawingBuffer this is for angular solution