UI component for picking a color from arbitrary 256 color palettes

This is a simple, flexible color-picker widget. It has no dependencies (not even on jQuery), so it's easy to just plug in and use. It weighs less than 3kb of combined JS & CSS once minified and gzipped.

Since it exposes itself via the UMD exports format, it will comply with whatever module loading system you're using. If you're not using one, it will expose a global called EightBitColorPicker.

If you're using Angular, there is a directive that builds on top of this that you can use.

You can of course go through the old-school copy/pasta routine, but here's the incantation to pull this in using Bower:

bower install --save eight-bit-color-picker

And for those that prefer component:

component install bilalq/eight-bit-color-picker

You can pass in either a string of an element ID or a reference to a DOM element into the constructor of EightBitColorPicker like so:

<div id="target"></div>

// You can do this
var ebcp = new EightBitColorPicker({ el: 'target' })

// Or this
var el = document.getElementById('target')
var ebcp = new EightBitColorPicker({ el: el })

Alternatively, you can just run the detect function to find all elements with the class eight-bit-color-picker and instantiate them as pickers.

<div class="eight-bit-color-picker"></div>
<div class="eight-bit-color-picker"></div>

// Renders all color pickers
var pickers = EightBitColorPicker.detect()

The documentation goes into this in more detail, but you can easily customize the color palette on a per picker basis. For those interested in writing web apps that relate to the CLI, see this xterm-256color palette.

var customPalette = [ /* Some array of 256 hex color strings */ ]
var picker = new EightBitColorPicker({ el: 'target', palette: customPalette })

You can even update the palette of an already instantiated picker by invoking EightBitColorPicker.prototype.updatePalette.

See this page for documentation.

This will work in all modern browsers. If you're worried about IE, this should work fine on IE10 and up.

MIT