How do you implement text color on taxonomy terms

Question

I want to implement different font colors on my taxonomy terms. I have installed and configured my color module version 7.x-1.0-rc1 but still I can't find any result.

Answer 1

Here are steps you need:

1. Install jQuery Colorpicker module.

2. In the vocabulary for terms for which you want to add colours, add a jquery color picker field.

3. So when you create each term, you also select a colour for it while creating. in this way each taxonomy term will have a colour.

4. now in the taxonomy term preprocess template, write something like this to grab the color and pass it as variable.

   function themename_preprocess_taxonomy_term(&$vars) {
     $colour_code = $vars['taxonomy_term']->field_yourcolorfieldname['und'][0]['value'];
     $vars['colour_code'] = $colour_code;
   }
   

Then copy the taxonomy-term.tpl.php to your theme folder, and you will be having $colour_code variable giving you the colour code of the term. you it to provide an inline css.

Remember, if overriding taxonomy term template is not what you need, or you want to have it elsewhere, whenever you get $term object, you can get the colour code through $term->field_yourcolourfieldname['und'][0]['value'].