script to set text background color

[starrwriter]

I'm putting together a browser-based WYSIWYG editor. I need a script that will open a javascript color palette and then set text background color onclick of the selected color. Any ideas where I might look? I tried IE's execCommand function, but that only opens a prompt to write in a color and users hate that.

[streetlife]

Why don't you check out how sitepoint do it in their advanced editor, they have something that sounds exactly like what you're trying to do.

[starrwriter]

Why don't you check out how sitepoint do it in their advanced editor, they have something that sounds exactly like what you're trying to do.

I searched the forum for "SitePoint advanced editor" and found nothing but my own posting and two off-topic results. Do you have a URL?

[streetlife]

Well, I wasn't specifically refering to exactly what you want. But if you go into the advanced editor on this forum and you hit the color picker, then a color menu pops up. Seems like that's more or less what you wanted. I imagine they use a hidden layer. Then you refer to the DOM to change the background color.

[adios]

http://simplythebest.net/scripts/DHT...cript_115.html
http://www.softcomplex.com/products/tigra_color_picker/
http://www.dyn-web.com/javascript/cpick/
http://www.mattkruse.com/javascript/colorpicker/
http://www.milonic.com/colorpicker.php