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Color

methods

Get or set the selected color. If no argument is given, this returns the currently selected color as a kendo.Color object.

color

Returns:kendo.Color

the current value

<div id="colorpalette"></div>
<script>
$("#colorpalette").kendoColorPalette();
var colorpalette = $("#colorpalette").data("kendoColorPalette");

// set the selected color
colorpalette.color(kendo.Color.fromBytes(255, 0, 0));

// get the selected color
var selectedColor = colorpalette.color();
console.log("Selected color:", selectedColor.toHex());
</script>