Create Profile Image of First Letter of First & Last Name

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Inside this article we will see a very interesting concept i.e How to Create Profile Image of First Letter of First & Last name using jquery. The same concept you can see into GMAIL like this –

If Name = Sanjay Kumar, then profile image will be something like this.

How To Set Profile Image As First Letters Of First And Last Name, this interesting concept we will see in a very easy way in this tutorial using jquery. Also using the same concept you can create default User profile pic having first letter and of last name.

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Let’s get started.


Create an Application

Create a folder with name js-profile. Create a file index.html into it.

Open index.html and write this complete code into it.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <title>Create Profile Image of First Letter of First & Last Name</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.4.1/css/bootstrap.min.css">
    <style>
        #frm-generate-image label.error {
            color: red;
        }

        #profile-image {
            width: 150px;
            height: 150px;
            border-radius: 50%;
            background: #337ab7;
            font-size: 35px;
            color: #fff;
            text-align: center;
            line-height: 150px;
            margin: 0 auto;
        }

        .hideme {
            display: none;
        }
    </style>
</head>

<body>

    <div class="container">
        <h3>Create Profile Image of First Letter of First & Last Name</h3>
        <div class="panel panel-primary">
            <div class="panel-heading">Create Profile Image of First Letter of First & Last Name</div>
            <div class="panel-body">
                <form class="form-horizontal" action="javascript:void(0)" id="frm-generate-image">
                    <div class="form-group">
                        <label class="control-label col-sm-2" for="fname">First Name:</label>
                        <div class="col-sm-10">
                            <input type="text" required class="form-control" id="fname" name="fname" placeholder="Enter first name...">
                        </div>
                    </div>
                    <div class="form-group">
                        <label class="control-label col-sm-2" for="lname">Last Name:</label>
                        <div class="col-sm-10">
                            <input type="text" required class="form-control" id="lname" name="lname" placeholder="Enter last name...">
                        </div>
                    </div>
                    <div class="form-group">
                        <div class="col-sm-offset-2 col-sm-10">
                            <button type="submit" class="btn btn-success">Submit</button>
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </form>

                <div id="profile-image" class="hideme"></div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>

    <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery-validate/1.19.2/jquery.validate.min.js"></script>

    <script>
        $(function() {
            $("#frm-generate-image").validate({
                submitHandler: function() {
                    var intials = $('#fname').val().charAt(0) + $('#lname').val().charAt(0);
                    //console.log(intials);
                    $('#profile-image').removeClass('hideme').text(intials);
                }
            });
        });
    </script>
</body>

</html>

Application Testing

Open browser and type this –

URL – http://localhost/js-profile/index.html

When we submit form without any value, validate library works for client side validations

Submit form by passing First name & Last name –

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