jqcolor: A jQuery Plugin port of jscolor

That’s right, my idea of a great Sunday afternoon is porting someone else’s code!

At first I was thinking, “I should email this guy and tell him to make a jQuery plugin”. But then I thought, “I’m the one who needs the jQuery plugin…” so I made it. Maybe now I’ll email him and say “I made a jQuery plugin for your color picker”.

Usage:

jQuery(‘input.color’).colorPicker();

This port is from the 1.0.9 version. jscolor was completely rewritten in 1.1.0 and looked like it had some regressions though it is at 1.2.3 now. The newer version is twice as big, still not a jQuery plugin, and also still missing hundreds of semi-colons, so I decided to stick to what I know and work on the smaller version.

So now it is a clunky jQuery plugin. There are still several spots where the syntax could be improved to take advantage of jQuery, but since there are no tests, and I don’t have a bunch of different browers to QA on, I decided to leave it alone as much as possible.

Source on github.

Author: Daniel X

Heretic priest of the Machine God. I enjoy crawling around in Jeff Bezo's spaceship, bringing technology to the people, and long walks outside of time and space. View all posts by Daniel X