# Dashboard 2 template editor colour picker

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-template-editor-colour-picker/95526>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Tags:** editor, dashboard-2\
**Created:** [19 February 2025 22:07 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-template-editor-colour-picker/95526 "2025-02-19T22:07:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![jbudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5f8ce5/32.png) [@jbudd](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jbudd)\
**Post date:** [19 February 2025 22:07 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-template-editor-colour-picker/95526/1 "2025-02-19T22:07:29Z")

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If you specify a colour in a template node CSS, a really nice feature of the editor is a swatch of the chosen colour and a popup colour picker, which (mostly) respects the colour format you used - hex, rgb, hsla etc.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/a/9/a9cb3b5c7afe62d2eeaecc73296d11e4f30d3f76.png)

Of course you only get to see 5 lines in that editor window. If you switch to the full page text editor, the colour swatches and popup are not displayed.

I appreciate that this is an entirely different editor. Is it not possible to get it to be equally helpful?  
Could the window with just 5 lines be permitted to be dragged larger to show more of the code?

I see there is an icon next to "Template" which I thought might be related, but clicking it does nothing (for me)  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/c/f/cf0b303f2c25cd660753987bbe73fb5892e2afc3.png)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [20 April 2025 22:07 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-2-template-editor-colour-picker/95526/2 "2025-04-20T22:07:54Z")

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