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.
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.