How to add a colorpicker in HTML

problem

You wish to let the user pick a color on your website. In this post we will see how to use the <input> tag to allow the user to choose a color like in the screenshot (varies from OS to OS).

color picker on Mac OS

SOLUTION

Using the <input> tag with the attribute type=”color”. Let’s see an example:

colorpicker.html
				
					<input type="color"/>
				
			
output
color picker in html
Example - setting the value by default

Just set the attribute value. The value accepted is a string which contains a 7-character string specifying an RGB color in hexadecimal format. [1]

colorpicker.html
				
					<input type="color" value="#24CD2F"/>
				
			
output

The hexadecimal value #24CD2F corresponds to the green color as shown above.

This input control is clickable and the user is free to select a custom color.

color picker in action

conclusion

In this post we saw how to use the <input> tag to create a color picker so the user can pick a custom color or enter their RGB code among other color code formats.

 

References:

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/color

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