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The color form field type provides a color picker. Enter the color as #ff00ff or pick it from the palette.

• type (mandatory) must be color.
• name (mandatory) is the unique name of the field.
• default (optional) provides a selected colour when none set
• format (optional) allows you to select the type of colour format, you can select rgb, rgba, hex.
• label (mandatory) (translatable) is the field html label.
• description (optional) (translatable) is the field description.

Implemented by: libraries/src/Form/Field/ColorField.php

Example XML parameter definition

<field
        name="backgroundcolor" 
        type="color" 
        default="#eee" 
        format="rgba"
        label="TPL_BEEZ3_FIELD_HEADER_BACKGROUND_COLOR_LABEL"
        description="TPL_BEEZ3_FIELD_HEADER_BACKGROUND_COLOR_DESC"
/>