How to get started easily with Syncfusion Angular 9 Color Picker ?

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A quick start project that helps you to create an Angular 9 Color Picker with a minimal code configurations.

Angular 9 Color Picker

The following section explains you how to create a simple angular 9 Color Picker component.

Prerequisites

Before start, we need following items to create Angular Color Picker in Angular 9 application

Node.js (latest version)
Angular
Angular CLI
Visual studio code for editor.
Typescript 3.7+

Dependencies

The angular 9 Color Picker is created from the Syncfusion ej2-angular-inputs package from npmjs, which are distributed in npm as @syncfusion scoped packages.

Creating Angular Project

Install Angular cli 9 using following command.
```
npm install -g @angular/cli@9.0.2
```

Note:

If you would like to follow and run the application in Angular 8 or Angular 7 or Angular 6, you need to replace the CLI command version number with the corresponding angular version number.

npm install -g @angular/cli@<CLI VERSION>

Create a new Angular 9 project using angular cli and navigate to that folder.
```
ng new <project name>
cd <project name>
```

Adding Angular Color Picker

After running the Angular 9 application successfully, configure the Angular Color Picker in this application. Install Angular Color Picker and EJ2 package using following command. The --save command will instruct the NPM to include a Color Picker package inside the dependencies section of the package.json.
```
npm install @syncfusion/ej2-angular-inputs --save
```

Import Color Picker from installed package.

Import and inject the other required modules within the providers section of app.module.ts.

import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { ColorPickerModule } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-inputs';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import { FormsModule } from '@angular/forms';
import { enableRipple } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';
 
enableRipple(true);
 
@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    AppComponent
  ],
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    FormsModule,
    ColorPickerModule
  ],
  providers: [],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule {}

Add the given below angular color picker’s styles in styles.css.

@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-base/styles/material.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-splitbuttons/styles/material.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-popups/styles/material.css";
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-inputs/styles/material.css";

Add the angular Color Picker component in app.component.ts.

import { Component } from '@angular/core';
 
@Component({
    selector: 'app-root',
    template: `<input ejs-colorpicker type='color' id='colorpicker'/>`
})
export class AppComponent {}

Now serve the application using following command.
```
ng serve 
```

Once the files are compiled successfully, it will serve the site at localhost:4200

Screenshot:

color picker preview

Inline Type

By default, the ColorPicker will be rendered using splitButton and open the pop-up to access the ColorPicker. To render the ColorPicker container alone and to access it directly, render it as inline. It can be achieved by setting the inline property to true.

The following sample shows the inline type rendering of ColorPicker.

[app.component.ts]

import { Component } from '@angular/core';
 
@Component({
    selector: 'app-root',
    template: `<input ejs-colorpicker type="color" id="colorpicker" [inline]= "true" [showButtons]= "false"/>`
})
export class AppComponent {}

Screenshot:

color picker with no split button

Summary

Refer to our documentation and online samples for more features. If you have any queries, please let us know in comments below. You can also contact us through our Support forum or Direct-Trac. We are happy to assist you!