Very simple jQuery (color) picker

Yet another jQuery picker, forked from jQuery Simple Color Picker. This plugin is unobtrusive and integrates well with Twitter Bootstrap (it works just fine without). The source code only requires jQuery and is about 200 lines of JavaScript and 100 lines of CSS.

See the online demo.

How to use

By default, SimplePicker works as a a color picker. Create a HTML select:

<select name="colorpicker">
  <option value="#7bd148">Green</option>
  <option value="#5484ed">Bold blue</option>
  <option value="#a4bdfc">Blue</option>
  <option value="#46d6db">Turquoise</option>
  <option value="#7ae7bf">Light green</option>
  <option value="#51b749">Bold green</option>
  <option value="#fbd75b">Yellow</option>
  <option value="#ffb878">Orange</option>
  <option value="#ff887c">Red</option>
  <option value="#dc2127">Bold red</option>
  <option value="#dbadff">Purple</option>
  <option value="#e1e1e1">Gray</option>
</select>

add the plugin files:

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.2/jquery.js"></script>
<script src="jquery.simplepicker.js"></script>

<link rel="stylesheet" href="jquery.simplepicker.css">

then call the plugin:

$('select[name="colorpicker"]').simplepicker();
$('select[name="colorpicker"]').simplepicker('selectOption', '#7bd148');
$('select[name="colorpicker"]').simplepicker('destroy');

and pass some options if needed:

$('select[name="colorpicker"]').simplepicker({
  picker: true
}).on('change', function() {
  $(document.body).css('background-color', $('select[name="colorpicker"]').val());
});

Options

theme: font to use for the ok/check mark (default: ''), available themes: regularfont, fontawesome, glyphicons
picker: show the colors inside a picker instead of inline (default: false)
pickerDelay: show and hide animation delay in milliseconds (default: 0)
setOptionValue: callback to update the HTML of the option for a value (default: function($option, value){ $option.css('background-color', value).addClass('empty'); })
setIconValue: callback to update the HTML of the picker icon for a value, or empty to use the same callback as setOptionValue (default: null)

Modifying the HTML of options

By using the setIconValue and setOptionValue options, it is possible to modify the <span> elements that are used as the "buttons" for the picker. For example, if you had a dropown that contained text options:

<select name="choicespicker">
  <option value="A">Apple</option>
  <option value="B">Broccoli</option>
  <option value="C">Cheese</option>
</select>

To show images for each of the values, you could use these options:

var showImage = function($elem, value) {
  // create a new image and use the value as part of the source
  var $img = $('<img>').attr('src', '/img/food/' + value + '.jpg');
  $elem.empty().append($img));
};
$('select[name="choicespicker"]').simplepicker({
  picker: true,
  setOptionValue: showImage
});

Browser support

SimplePicker supports all modern browsers starting with Internet Explorer 8 included. It is recommended to not use any font theme with IE8.

HTML5 new color input

HTML5 provides a new input to select colors. Its implementation inside modern browsers is still lacking. The new color input does not provide any option to customize the color list and most of the time the widget is less user-friendly than the one provided by simplepicker.

See http://slides.html5rocks.com/#new-form-types

See http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/input.color.html#input.color

Bower

bower install jquery-simplepicker

npm

npm install ushahidi/jquery-simplepicker --save

Copyright and license

MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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