Manually specify color using text input and hexadecimal value is old fashion way, and you can’t guarantee user know what is mean by #ff0000. Be friendly to your user, and give them something nice. So if you need to build web application that need user to specify a color, take a look at these amazing jQuery color picker plugins.

Farbtastic

Farbtastic was written by Steven Wittens and is licensed under the GPL. More information at http://acko.net/dev/farbtastic

ColorPicker

jQuery Color Picker plugin is developed by Stefan Petre. Dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses. You can find more information on Color Picker Plugin’s Website.

jPicker

jPicker is a ported version of John Dyers’ awesome work on his picker using the Prototype framework. Find more information about jPicker at jPicker’s homepage.

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September 3rd, 2009 | Comments(2)