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Custom Color Picker Control with Styled Swatch

Discover how to build a custom color picker control using only CSS. This lesson guides you through removing default input styles, applying cross-browser compatible swatch styling, and adding interactive hover and focus effects. You will learn techniques to enhance color input usability and aesthetics with smooth transitions and accessibility improvements.

Problem description

Given an HTML page containing a <label> with class color-picker that wraps an <input type="color" class="custom-color"> and the text Choose color, write CSS to:

  • Remove the default appearance of the color input across browsers.

  • Set the .custom-color size to 32px by ...