How to know if HTML5 input type color is available as a color picker?

css, dom, forms, html, jquery

Solution

Here you go.

/**
 * Determine if the current browser has support for HTML5 input type of color.
 * @author Matthew Toledo
 * @return {boolean} True if color input type supported. False if not.
 */
var test = function() {
  var colorInput;

  // NOTE:
  //
  // If the browser is capable of displaying a color picker, it will sanitize the color value first. So "!"" becomes #000000;
  //
  // Taken directly from modernizr:
  // @see http://modernizr.com/docs/#features-html5
  //
  // These types can enable native datepickers, colorpickers, URL validation, and so on.
  // If a browser doesn’t support a given type, it will be rendered as a text field. Modernizr
  // cannot detect that date inputs create a datepicker, the color input create a colorpicker,
  // and so on—it will detect that the input values are sanitized based on the spec. In the
  // case of WebKit, we have received confirmation that sanitization will not be added without
  // the UI widgets being in place.
  colorInput = $('<input type="color" value="!" />')[0];
  return colorInput.type === 'color' && colorInput.value !== '!';
};

$(function(){
  if (test()) {
    $('body').append('<p1>Your browser supports the color input</p>');
  } else {
    $('body').append('<p>Your browser Doesn\'t Support the color input</p>');
  }
})

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script>

Problem

I'd like to add a jquery color picker fallback if no color picker is shown. For example, chrome shows a color picker, but as of yet, safari simply shows a textfield. Is there any way (without user agents) to detect if a color picker is available? Edit: Modernizr is no good, since it would just say that safari supports it too. Safari supports input type color because it doesn't allow anything but a #hex color to be entered in the input box. But there is no color picker. I need to know if there is a color picker instead.

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