Create a hexadecimal colour based on a string with JavaScript

Question

I want to create a function that will accept any old string (will usually be a single word) and from that somehow generate a hexadecimal value between #000000

Answer 1

I convert this for Java.

Tanks for all.

public static int getColorFromText(String text)
    {
        if(text == null || text.length() < 1)
            return Color.BLACK;

        int hash = 0;

        for (int i = 0; i < text.length(); i++)
        {
            hash = text.charAt(i) + ((hash << 5) - hash);
        }

        int c = (hash & 0x00FFFFFF);
        c = c - 16777216;

        return c;
    }