Hi all,

for a survey I'd like to add a color picker to a few questions, is there a way to do that?

I thought I could use the script field, but I can't find any hints on how to use it.
e.g. with this... <input type="color" id="favcolor" name="favcolor" value="#ff0000">


thanks for any help.

What is the use-case? The <input type="color" /> element does not work in IE.

In a survey we would like to get user feedback on a "prefered color".
I was hoping to be able to use a color picker and store the hex value as the answer. ( The top one here would be nice.)

But apparently I don't quite understand how to use the script field when setting up a question. No matter what I put in there, it always defaults to "javascript" and in any case nothing is shown when checking the question preview.

Obviously I am not a programmer. But I could also find no real explaination in the LimeSurvey docs on how to use that script editor.

thanks,
george

I see no "top one" that is available for download.

I think if you want this to be compatible with all modern browsers, you will need to find and install a JavaScript plugin/library for the colour picker.

Regarding the editor, maybe you don't have the correct permissions to insert JavaScript.

- manual.limesurvey.org/Global_settings#Security

hi tony,

sorry, was talking about the one highlighted below.

I get the HTML5 color picker (see img "Or use HTML5:") to show up in my question area. (last two images) but I don't have the slightest idea on how to get the "selected" color across into the text field.

well, but at least people can pick a color and punch in the RGB/hex values in regular numeric input fields. close enough.



thanks anyway. don't want to waste your time. this is obviously out of my league. :whistle:

cheers,
george
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Color Pickers ( www.w3schools.com/colors/colors_picker.asp )




Question in source mode



Question preview

With a short text question type


Try this in script part

That input type is buggy in IE (at least in my tests).

Additionally it looks like George doesn't have permissions to insert JS or inputs.

tpartner wrote:
Additionally it looks like George doesn't have permissions to insert JS or inputs.

Oh ... unsure : i check this mroning with github : seems broken ...

@egroeg

Can you test update question text in source mode and add this

And look again in source mode if you still have it

great, that worked!! :woohoo:

i now have that simple color picker as an answer field.

still no idea, what you did there. know nothing about JS or jquery. am more of a lego-coding kind of guy. just playing around with bits and pieces of code, whithout knowing what i do, most of the time. sorry. x)

1.) from what i understand, this is using jquery? ( api.jquery.com/attr/#attr-attributeName-value )
couldn't find anything on the synthax used here: could you possibly point me to a part of the manual?

2.) I guess it is kind of chaining attributes as I would do in Excel, right? just asking because i thought i could use TGO/LGO and "Long Text" as the input field, to get a larger color picker.

3.) also, the default color is black. how would i set a different value?


but again, this is already awesome. thanks for your help!
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i now have that simple color picker as an answer field.

That will not work in Internet Explorer.

tpartner wrote:

i now have that simple color picker as an answer field.

That will not work in Internet Explorer.

I know, starting point

And here : lack of em script (on('change'))