Get hex value of clicked on color with jQuery

Question

I want to know how to make a color picker with jQuery that will allow you to click somewhere on the page and return the hex color value of the color that you clicked on.

Answer 1

I had this problem recently, by default IE returns hex colours whereas all the good browsers return rgb values, I simply put conditions to deal with both strings, this would be more efficient..

however I think this function does the trick if you really need it

function RGBToHex(rgb) { 
var char = "0123456789ABCDEF"; 
return String(char.charAt(Math.floor(rgb / 16))) + String(char.charAt(rgb - (Math.floor(rgb / 16) * 16))); 
}