Documentation

Call the colopicker via javascript:

$('.sample-selector').colorpicker({ /*options...*/ });

Options

You can set colorpicker options either as a plugin parameter or data-* attributes

Name Type Default Description
format string false If not false, forces the color format to be hex, rgb or rgba, otherwise the format is automatically detected.
color string false If not false, sets the color to this value.
container string or jQuery Element false If not false, the picker will be contained inside this element, otherwise it will be appended to the document body.
component string or jQuery Element '.add-on, .input-group-addon' Children selector for the component or element that trigger the colorpicker and which background color will change (needs an inner <i> element).
input string or jQuery Element 'input' Children selector for the input that will store the picker selected value.
horizontal boolean false If true, the hue and alpha channel bars will be rendered horizontally, above the saturation selector.
template string [...] Customizes the default colorpicker HTML template.

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Methods

.colorpicker(options)

Initializes an colorpicker.

.colorpicker('show')

Show the color picker

.colorpicker('update')

Refreshes the widget colors (this is done automatically)

.colorpicker('hide')

Hide the color picker

.colorpicker('disable')

Disable the color picker.

.colorpicker('enable')

Enable the color picker.

.colorpicker('place')

Updates the color picker's position relative to the element

.colorpicker('destroy')

Destroys the colorpicker widget and unbind all .colorpicker events from the element and component

.colorpicker('setValue', value)

Set a new value for the color picker (also for the input or component value). Triggers 'changeColor' event.

Color object methods

Each triggered events have a color object used internally by the picker. This object has several useful methods.

.setColor(value)

Set a new color. The value is parsed and tries to do a quess on the format.

.setHue(value)

Set the HUE with a value between 0 and 1.

.setSaturation(value)

Set the saturation with a value between 0 and 1.

.setLightness(value)

Set the lightness with a value between 0 and 1.

.setAlpha(value)

Set the transparency with a value between 0 and 1.

.toRGB()

Returns a hash with red, green, blue and alpha.

.toHex()

Returns a string with HEX format for the current color.

.toHSL()

Returns a hash with HSLA values.

Events

The colorpicker plugin exposes some events (with optional .colorpicker namespace)

Event Description
create This event fires immediately when the color picker is created.
showPicker This event fires immediately when the color picker is displayed.
hidePicker This event is fired immediately when the color picker is hidden.
disable This event is fired immediately when the color picker is disabled, except if it was initialized as disabled.
enable This event is fired immediately when the color picker is enabled, except upon initialization.
changeColor This event is fired when the color is changed.
destroy This event fires immediately when the color picker is destroyed. 
$('.my-colorpicker-control').colorpicker().on('changeColor', function(ev){
  bodyStyle.backgroundColor = ev.color.toHex();
});