jquery-asColor

0.3.6 • Public • Published

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A jquery plugin used to parse css color string and convent it to other color formats. It support rgb, rgba, hex, hsl, hsla.

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Main files

dist/
├── jquery-asColor.js
├── jquery-asColor.es.js
└── jquery-asColor.min.js

Quick start

Several quick start options are available:

Download the latest build

Install From Bower

bower install jquery-asColor --save

Install From Npm

npm install jquery-asColor --save

Install From Yarn

yarn add jquery-asColor

Build From Source

If you want build from source:

git clone git@github.com:amazingSurge/jquery-asColor.git
cd jquery-asColor
npm install
npm install -g gulp-cli babel-cli
gulp build

Done!

Requirements

jquery-asColor requires the latest version of jQuery.

Usage

Including files:

<script src="/path/to/jquery.js"></script>
<script src="/path/to/jquery-asColor.js"></script>

Initialization

All you need to do is call the plugin on the element:

jQuery(function($) {
  var color = $.asColor('rgba(255, 255, 255, 1)', {
    format: 'rgba',
    shortenHex: false,
    hexUseName: false,
    reduceAlpha: false,
    nameDegradation: 'HEX',
    invalidValue: '',
    zeroAlphaAsTransparent: true
  });
  var string = color.toString(), // rgba(255, 255, 255, 1)
    hex = color.toHEX(), // #ffffff
    rgb = color.toRGB(), // rgb(255, 255, 255)
    hsl = color.toHSL(), // hsl(0, 0%, 100%)
    hsla = color.toHSLA(), // hsla(0, 0%, 100%, 1)
    name = color.toNAME(); // white
 
  color.val('#000');
  color.format('hsla');
  color.alpha(0.5);
  var value = color.val(); // hsla(0, 0%, 0%, 0.5)
});

Examples

There are some example usages that you can look at to get started. They can be found in the examples folder.

Options

jquery-asColor can accept an options object to alter the way it behaves. You can see the default options by call $.asColor.setDefaults(). The structure of an options object is as follows:

{
  format: false,
  shortenHex: false,
  hexUseName: false,
  reduceAlpha: false,
  alphaConvert: { // or false will disable convert
    'RGB': 'RGBA',
    'HSL': 'HSLA',
    'HEX': 'RGBA',
    'NAMESPACE': 'RGBA',
  },
  nameDegradation: 'HEX',
  invalidValue: '',
  zeroAlphaAsTransparent: true
}

Methods

Methods are called on asColor instances through the asColor method itself. You can also save the instances to variable for further use.

toString()

Return the color string.

color.toString();

format()

Get the color format or set the color format.

color.format();
color.format('rgb');

val()

Set or get the color value.

// get the val
color.val();
 
// set the val
color.val('rgb(66, 50, 50)');

set()

Set the color.

color.set({
  r: 255,
  g: 255,
  b: 255,
  a: 0.5
});

get()

Get the color.

var rgb = color.get();

alpha()

Get alpha.

var alpha = color.alpha();

isValid()

Check color is valid.

color.isValid();

toRGB()

Convent to rgb color.

color.toRGB();

toRGBA()

Convent to rgba color.

color.toRGBA();

toHEX()

Convent to hex color.

color.toHEX();

toHSL()

Convent to hsl color.

color.toHSL();

toHSLA()

Convent to hsla color.

color.toHSLA();

No conflict

If you have to use other plugin with the same namespace, just call the $.asColor.noConflict method to revert to it.

<script src="other-plugin.js"></script>
<script src="jquery-asColor.js"></script>
<script>
  $.asColor.noConflict();
  // Code that uses other plugin's "$().asColor" can follow here.
</script> 

Browser support

Tested on all major browsers.

Safari Chrome Firefox Edge IE Opera
Latest ✓ Latest ✓ Latest ✓ Latest ✓ 9-11 ✓ Latest ✓

As a jQuery plugin, you also need to see the jQuery Browser Support.

Contributing

Anyone and everyone is welcome to contribute. Please take a moment to review the guidelines for contributing. Make sure you're using the latest version of jquery-asColor before submitting an issue. There are several ways to help out:

Development

jquery-asColor is built modularly and uses Gulp as a build system to build its distributable files. To install the necessary dependencies for the build system, please run:

npm install -g gulp
npm install -g babel-cli
npm install

Then you can generate new distributable files from the sources, using:

gulp build

More gulp tasks can be found here.

Changelog

To see the list of recent changes, see Releases section.

Copyright and license

Copyright (C) 2016 amazingSurge.

Licensed under the LGPL license.

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Version

0.3.6

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