jquery.adaptive-background.js

A simple jQuery plugin to extract the dominant color of an image and apply it to the background of its parent element.

Check it out on the web!

Getting Started

Simply include jQuery and the script in your page, then run the script like so:

$(document).ready(function(){
  $.adaptiveBackground.run()
});

The script looks for image(s) with the data-adaptive-background attribute:

<img src="/image.jpg" data-adaptive-background='1'>

Demo

Here's a little demo of how it works. (1) The page loads (2) the dominant background color of the image is extracted (3) said color is applied to parent of image.

API

This plugin exposes one method:

• $.adaptiveBackground.run(opts) arg: opts (Object) an optional argument to be merged in with the defaults.

Default Options

• selector String (default: 'img[data-adaptive-background="1"]') a CSS selector which denotes which images to grab/process. Ideally, this selector would start with img, to ensure we only grab and try to process actual images.
• parent falsy (default: null) a CSS selector which denotes which parent to apply the background color to. By default, the color is applied to the parent one level up the DOM tree.

Example: Call the run method, passing in any options you'd like to override.

var opts = {
  selector: '.some-selector',
  parent:   '.some-parent-of-some-selector'
}
$.adaptiveBackground.run(opts)

Events Emitted

• ab-color-found Event This event is fired when the dominant color of the image is found. The payload includes the dominant color as well as the color palette contained in the image.

Example: Subscribe to the ab-color-found event like so:

$('img.my-image').on('ab-color-found', function(payload){
  console.log(payload.color);   // The dominant color in the image.
  console.log(payload.palette); // The color palette found in the image.
});

Caveats

This plugin utlizes Color Thief which in turn uses the Canvas. The script will silently fail if one tries to extract the colors from an image not hosted in the current domain.

Contact

Find me. @brianmgonzalez

License

MIT, yo.