I am looking to create a Jquery script that will randomly choose a colour from a list of 10, and then apply it as a background color to one div, and the color of a h1 tag.
So far I have this which makes a random color:
$(document).ready(function() { var hue = 'rgb(' + (Math.floor((256-199)*Math.random()) + 200) + ','
+ (Math.floor((256-199)*Math.random()) + 200) + ','
+ (Math.floor((256-199)*Math.random()) + 200) + ')';
$('#controls-wrapper').css("background-color", hue);
$('h1').css("color", hue);});
but how can I make this choose randomly from a list of 10 colors?
I found this, but not sure how you would apply this to bg color div and h1 tag.
$("#controls-wrapper").each(function(){
var colors = ["#CCCCCC","#333333","#990099"];
var rand = Math.floor(Math.random()*colors.length);
$(this).css("background-color", colors[rand]);});
I think what you are trying to accomplish is this:
Assuming you have a HTML page like this:
<html>
<body>
<h1>Hello World!</h1>
<div id="controls-wrapper>some text</div>
</body>
$(document).ready(function(){
var colors = ["#CCCCCC","#333333","#990099"];
var rand = Math.floor(Math.random()*colors.length);
$('#controls-wrapper').css("background-color", colors[rand]);
$('h1').css("color", colors[rand]);
});
After you have created your colors array you then get a random number corresponding to the index of a color.
Now that you have a random index you can use it to set the background-color, or text color of an object.
If you wanted the colors to be different for each then you would just call
rand = Math.floor(Math.random()*colors.length);
again before setting the color of your next element.
And finally by calling $('h1').css("color", colors[rand]); you will set the color on all H1 elements on the page, you want it to be specific set an ID or class value on the H1 and then use $('h1.myclass').css("color", colors[rand]); OR $('#ID_for_my_H1').css("color", colors[rand]);
May be this can help:
Changing colors of a DIV
Here is the JS of the code for an overview of approach that i used!
JS:
setInterval(function () {
document.getElementById("fancy").style.background= '#'+Math.floor(Math.random()*16777215).toString(16);
document.body.style.background= '#'+Math.floor(Math.random()*16777215).toString(16);
}, 1000);
Though this post is little old but it may be of some use in context of this question!!
.random-color {
display: block;
margin-bottom: 10px;
width: 150px;
color:#CC00CC;
}
<a class="random-color" href="#">
Link 1
</a>
<a class="random-color" href="#">
Link 2
</a>
<a class="random-color" href="#">
Link 3
</a>
<a class="random-color" href="#">
Link 4
</a>
<a class="random-color" href="#">
Link 5
</a>
var randomLinks = $('a.random-color');
var original = randomLinks.css('color');
var colors = ["#CCCCCC","#333333","#990099", "#1295A6", "#FFFF99"];
randomLinks.hover(function() { //mouseover
var col = Math.floor(Math.random()*colors.length);
$(this).css('color',colors[col]);
$(this).animate({
'paddingLeft': '20px'
}, 1000);
}, function() { //mouseout
$(this).css('color',original);
$(this).animate({
'paddingLeft': '0'
}, 500);
});
Try this using link http://codebins.com/codes/home/4ldqpby
var array = ["orange", "blue", "black", "yellow", "green"];
var colorNumber = Math.round((Math.random() * (array.length - 1)));
$("body").css('background-color', array[colorNumber]);
