Gravity Forms Color Picker Add-On

Gravity Forms Color Picker - Intuitive color selection for forms

Gravity Forms Color Picker is an extension for Gravity Forms that adds an advanced color picker to form fields. This plugin allows for quick and convenient capture of color values during form submissions, perfect for product orders, design briefs, aesthetic surveys, and personalization tools. Its functionality focuses on ease of use, compatibility with existing Gravity Forms fields, and extensive customization options for designers and website administrators.

Gravity Forms Color Picker Key Features

• New field type: Adding a dedicated color picker field directly to your Gravity Forms form.
• Color formats: Support for HEX, RGB and HSL and the ability to set the output format.
• Palettes and presets: definable color sets (swatches) allowing quick selection of permanent brand colors.
• Transparency: Alpha channel (opacity) support for RGBA values, useful when designing layers and materials with semi-transparency.
• Gradients and multi-color selections: Optional ability to select simple gradients or multiple colors in one box.
• Validation and default values: set default color, field requirement, and validation rules.
• Compatibility: Full support for Gravity Forms conditional logic, calculated fields, and merge tags.
• Appearance customization: ability to add CSS classes, custom styles and integration with the website theme.
• Accessibility: Support for touch devices, keyboards, and compliance with basic ARIA attributes.
• Internationalization: translation preparation and RTL compliance.

Benefits and applications

The Gravity Forms Color Picker add-on enhances user experience in color-selection interactions while minimizing errors associated with manual coding. It can be used in a variety of scenarios:

• E-commerce: product color selection for live orders, gadget personalization, custom printing.
• Creative agencies and designers: gathering color preferences during the design brief.
• Contact forms and surveys: quick aesthetic assessment, selection of customer-preferred colors.
• Configurator tools: integration with product configuration systems, where color is one of the order parameters.
• Registration forms and user profiles: ability to set avatar color, profile background or accents.

Gravity Forms Color Picker makes it easy to integrate branding elements into your forms system, speeding up business processes and improving the visual consistency of customer communications.

Configuration and implementation

Installing and adding a color selection field to the form takes just a few simple steps:

• Install and activate the Gravity Forms Color Picker add-on and have Gravity Forms active.
• In the form editor, add a new field of type "Color Picker" and set the label and description.
• Configure the output format (HEX/RGB/HSL), color presets, and transparency options if required.
• Optionally assign CSS classes or conditional rules to make the field only appear in certain situations.
• Test behavior on different devices and browsers, especially when integrating with the theme's frontend styles.

Fields created using Gravity Forms Color Picker can be easily read in submissions, processed in integrations with e-commerce systems, and exported along with other form data.

Technical details and compatibility

• Implementation based on a lightweight, responsive JavaScript interface, optimized for performance.
• Compatibility with popular browsers and touch support on mobile devices.
• Possibility of styling using your own CSS sheets and assigning classes to individual fields.
• Integration with Gravity Forms ticketing mechanism - color values are available in the administration panel and in email notifications.

Gravity Forms Color Picker is a practical tool for website designers, online stores, and marketing teams who need simple and aesthetically pleasing color selection. This extension streamlines the visual data collection process and increases the accuracy of communicating color preferences.