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.
inline
boolean
false
If true, forces to show the colorpicker as an inline element.
sliders
object
[...]
Vertical sliders configuration (read source code if you really need to tweak this).
slidersHorz
object
[...]
Horizontal sliders configuration (read source code if you really need to tweak this).
template
string
[...]
Customizes the default colorpicker HTML template.
align
string
'right'
By default, the colorpicker is aligned to the right of the input. If you need to switch it
to the left, set align to 'left'.
customClass
string
null
Adds this class to the colorpicker widget.
colorSelectors
object
null
List of pre selected colors (hex format). If you choose one of these colors, the alias is returned instead of the hex code.
jQuery API Methods
General usage methods
.colorpicker(options)
Initializes an colorpicker.
.colorpicker('getValue', defaultValue)
Gets the value from the input or the data attribute (if has no input), otherwise returns the default
value, which defaults to #000000 if not specified.
.colorpicker('setValue', value)
Set a new value for the color picker (also updates everything). Triggers 'changeColor' event.
.colorpicker('show')
Show the color picker
.colorpicker('hide')
Hide the color picker
.colorpicker('reposition')
Updates the color picker's position relative to the element
.colorpicker('update')
Refreshes the widget colors (this is done automatically)
.colorpicker('enable')
Enable the color picker.
.colorpicker('disable')
Disable the color picker.
.colorpicker('destroy')
Destroys the colorpicker widget and unbind all .colorpicker events from the element and component
.data('colorpicker')
Access to the colorpicker API directly
.data('colorpicker').color
Access to the colorpicker Color object information
Color object methods
Each triggered events have a color object (avaliable through event.color, see the example at the
bottom) used internally by the picker. This object has several useful methods. These are the more
commonly used:
.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.
.setBrightness(value)
Set the brightness 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
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.
changeColor
This event is fired when the color is changed.
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.
destroy
This event fires immediately when the color picker is destroyed.