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The really cool jscolor color picker
- Authors
- Name
- interglobalmedia
- @letsbsocial1
- Link to The really cool jscolor color picker podcast on anchorfm
While I have been building my "Storage Fun With Forms"
application, I came across the jscolor
color picker on MDN
. Instead of using the default color picker implemented by setting the value
of color
to the input
type attribute
available in HTML5
, you replace that with the class
"jscolor"
. If you do not remove type="color"
from your input
elements, it will not work!
It took me a little while to figure this out, because there was no explicit documentation on what attributes one should and should not have in the input
, but after some hit
and miss
, I finally figured it out by removing type="color"
from my color inputs
and replacing it with the class attribute
set to the "jscolor"
class. In my index.html
:
<input name="color" id="bgcolor" value="FF0000" class="jscolor" />
<input name="color" id="fontcolor" class="jscolor" value="000000" />
And in my main.js
:
// background related variable
let htmlElem = document.querySelector('html')
// font style related variable
let fontStyleElem = document.querySelector('.font-style')
//local storage related variables
let currentBgColor = localStorage.getItem('bgcolor')
let currentFontColor = localStorage.getItem('fontcolor')
// css-in-js color styling related
htmlElem.style.backgroundColor = currentBgColor
fontStyleElem.style.color = currentFontColor
And that is it!
I will be embedding this episode of Plugging in The Holes along with a transcript in the form of a post on interglobalmedianetwork.com for your hearing and reading pleasure. Bye for now!