10 Cool Color Picker Scripts

Here are some cool color picker scripts that can be used. Some of them are written using plain javascript – means you don’t need any javascript library like jQuery, Mootools.

Color Picker – jQuery plugin

A simple component to select color in the same way you select color in Adobe Photoshop.

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Flexi Color Picker

Flexi ColorPicker is a pure JavaScript color picker without using flash, images, external libraries, CSS or 1px divs. Only 4.3KB minified.

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ExColor (V 1.2)

This plugin is only for elements such as input type=”text”, but this is enough in most cases. A few lines of JS code, and you will see in their page handy editor of color.

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Farbtastic: jQuery color picker plug-in

Farbtastic is a jQuery plug-in that can add one or more color picker widgets into a page through JavaScript. Each widget is then linked to an existing element (e.g. a text field) and will update the element’s value when a color is selected.

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ColorPicker 0.9

This colorPicker is a light weight all-rounder (~ 29kB – only 1 file*; 12.8kB gZiped) that can display and let you choose the entire color palette in HSB and RGB color modes.

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jQuery Colors Pickers HSL

Two color pickers have been developed upon the jQuery.colors plugin using the HSL (hue, saturation, lightness) color model.

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JSColor

JSColor is a simple & user-friendly color picker for your HTML forms. It extends all desired input fields of a color selection dialog.

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PhotoShop-like JavaScript Color Picker

PhotoShop-like JavaScript Color Picker has all 6 picking options (H,S,V,R,G,B) not just Hue.

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mooRainbow

mooRainbow is a powerful Javascript color picker like photoshop (made with mootools) that allows you to visually choose and use colors as a real and useful application.

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colorpickerjs

A JavaScript color picker, based on prototype and script.aculo.us.

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