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Color Picker

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Summary

This lesson is about the browser's built-in color selector input. With type="color", the user can open the selected color palette and value available in hexadecimal format. The value can be displayed as a preview or further processed, for example to calculate text contrast.

Key points

Use <input type="color"> to open the browser's built-in color picker
Property value contains color in hexadecimal format (#rrggbb)
Listen to event input or change to update preview
Consider contrasting colors and provide alternative text input when needed

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