glowColorSelector jQuery Plugin

Ben Tiedt — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 17:51:44 GMT

Current Revision posted to API Documentation by Ben Tiedt on 03/08/2024 17:51:44

jQuery.fn.glowColorSelector

This plugin decorates a text input with a popup color selection tool.

Usage

Initiate a selection of text inputs to display a color selection tool when focused.

$('selector').glowColorSelector(options)

where selector contains <input type="text" /> element(s) and options is an optional object argument

Options

blendImageUrl: image used as the background for color blending. Evolution pre-sets intelligent defaults
hueBlendImageUrl: image used as the background for hue blending. Evolution pre-sets intelligent defaults
alphaBlendImageUrl: image used as the background for alpha blending. Evolution pre-sets intelligent defaults
transparentImageUrl: image used as a background to show transparency. Evolution pre-sets intelligent defaults
zIndex: the z-index of the color selection popup. Defaults to 1000.

Events

change: triggered on color selection

Methods

val

Retrieves and/or sets the current value of the color selector. The value of the selected text input is also updated by the color selector.

// get the current color
var value = $('selector').glowColorSelector('val');

// set the current color to red
$('selector').glowColorSelector('val', '#FF0000')

disabled

Retrieves and/or sets whether the color selection popup is disabled. When enabled, focusing on the input will pop open the color selector. When disabled, it will not.

// get the current disabled state
var isDisabled = $('selector').glowColorSelector('disabled');

// set the disabled state
$('selector').glowColorSelector('disabled', false);