There is no field for picking a color?

Good point. Actually this field idea lives in my idea-folder for quite a long time. Forgot to create a proper topic ;-)

For sure, there might be many different approaches to create such a special field. There are also different ways to display a color selection.

Apart from utilizing an existing Cobalt field... with pre-defined values/names/images as options... You might also modify an existing field with a color-related JavaScript and custom input template.

How do you want the user to select a color? Your color palette is a small collection of color-wells? What type of data do you need and in which format should it be stored? What type of input is needed: by name? by a certain value? by an interactive WYSIWYG interface? etc.

Can you specify more details, please?

Great that not only me thinking about that field :) I believe that this one plugin can be used as color picker " http://www.eyecon.ro/colorpicker/ " - it is nice one. And for me its enough that field stores hexademical color value, that's it. Maby it could store also rgb values, it may be sometimes useful if you want to display it as rgba with transparency.

I think it is very simple to make as text field template. Just add script and apply it to input.

klewas I believe that this one plugin can be used as color picker " http://www.eyecon.ro/colorpicker/ " - it is nice one.

BTW, J!2.5++ has also a build-in color form field type.
Related SpiralScripts article

J!3 ships with the following JS files incl. minified versions in media/JUI folder:

• jquery.minicolors.js homepage
• jquery.simplecolors.js loosely based on Very Simple jQuery Color Picker

Great, I didn't know that Joomla has that kind of field:) Yes it's really simple to create it but I don't understand why it's still not created together with the other fields?:)

klewas but I don't understand why it's still not created together with the other fields?:)

Because this is fist time when some one asked for that.

FYI - Tiny Colorpicker - A lightweight cross browser color picker.

• Homepage
• GitHub project (latest version)

That is what I say. It is incredibly easy to implemen even on custom form. Just add theer this piece of code for text field by ID.

Sergey easy to implemen even on custom form

What's best practice, if Javascript/CSS files have to be used?

• Form template is easy, but it would load JS files always, even if the color field is not used in a certain type)
• Text field input template: How to deal with JS scripts in field templates? Also include them with jfactory Addscript/AddStylesheet. But what about JS/CSS file location?
• How to package and distribute a custom field-template with external JS/CSS files?

There are 2 ways. But I would do this one.

1. Create custom text input field template.
2. In that template at very top I would load JS that I save in any Joomla location I like

JFactory::getDocument()->addScript('/path/to/script.js');

And then at very bottom I vuld add

<script>
jQuery('#field_id').colopicker();
</script>