I run an Apache server for my family’s web site. One of the things it does is allow us to share messages. What I want to do is allow family members to add color to the text messages they are entering.
I had no problem getting things like Bold, Italic, Underline to works as they are all handled within the page.
In trying to add color, I’ve downloaded a few different color pickers. The one I am currently trying is Advanced Color Picker which does everything I need except I can’t figure out how to get the #rrggbb selected value back to the page the message is entered in and where the selected text to be colored is. I can get it back to a type=hidden variable but don’t see how I then kick the page again to process the data the popup window placed there.
I need it to be this (more or less):
Hi everyone, <font color=#rrggbb>thanks for the cards</font>.
Part of my problem is I think serially and the popup window generated by Javascript is not modal so the javascript code in the page that invokes the color popup generator completes without any response from the popup window.
Basically I’m trying to implement the Text Color (A) option that is available here (between Sizes and Smiles. If someone can describe how that’s done that would give me a good place to start.
I’ve written a lot of html/javascript/css to support the family web site. I’m usually able to figure out how to do things but am very frustrated with this one so any help would be greatly appreciated.
