I'm trying to create the overall layout of a webapp. The app is full-screen and has a fixed header and three columns/panes. The center pane consists of two rows:
The panes should be resizable through dragging the pane edges with the mouse (see arrows in image above).
The individual panes have should have vertical scrollbars in case of overflowing content, that is, no global browser window scrollbar.
Using jQuery and jQuery UI Resizable, I've created this (partly working) JSFiddle.
HTML:
<div class="header">
Fixed header
</div>
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="inner-wrapper">
<div class="left pane">Left</div>
<div class="center pane">
<div class="inner">
<div class="top">Center top</div>
<div class="bottom">Center bottom</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="right pane">Right</div>
</div>
</div>
CSS:
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
.header {
position: fixed;
top: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
height: 20px;
background-color: moccasin;
}
.wrapper {
position:absolute;
top: 21px;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
background-color: fuchsia;
}
.inner-wrapper,
.center.pane .inner {
display: table;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
.pane {
display: table-cell;
}
.left.pane {
background-color: olivedrab;
}
.center.pane {
background-color: lightblue;
}
.center.pane .inner .top,
.center.pane .inner .bottom{
display: table-row;
}
.center.pane .inner .top {
background-color: lightcoral;
}
.center.pane .inner .bottom {
background-color: orange;
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
}
.right.pane {
background-color: #999;
}
JavaScript:
$(function () {
$(".left.pane").resizable({
handles: "e, w"
});
$(".right.pane").resizable({
handles: "e, w"
});
$(".center.pane .inner .bottom").resizable({
handles: "n, s"
});
});
It has several issues, including:
When resizing Left, Right is also resized (which it shouldn't)
When resizing Left towards full width, Center content is hidden under Right
When resizing Right the wrapper (Fuchsia-colored) is partly visible
Center bottom is resized through the top of the Center top, not through it's own top
I'm aware of the jQuery Layout plugin, but as far as I can see, it doesn't offer quite the layout I'm after. Also, I want to keep it as simple as possible.
Furthermore, I have tried Methvins splitter plugin, but couldn't get it to work.
My question:
Any suggestions for how to create a layout as in the image from jQuery UI Resizable and what I have in the JSFiddle?
There are more appropriate plugins, based on jQuery to obtain what you want.
OPTION 1:
I personally used in a my project UI Layout.
It is an almost old project (6 years ago), but in mid-2014 its development is re-started, even if there are no more information after september 2014.
Actually, last stable version is 1.4.3, released in sept '14. New website is:
https://github.com/allpro/layout/
OPTION 2:
If you need a more complete solution, you could think about jEasy UI, that is a complete framework that
[...] helps you build your web pages easily
It is a sort of replacement of jQuery UI, with some similar widgets (dialogs, accordions, ...) and something exclusive, like Layout module, already linked in my answer.
OPTION 3:
Analogue solution to the previous one, is Zino UI, another complete UI framework that has a specific component dedicated to "Split Layout"
OPTION 4:
jQWidgets is another library, with similar purposes of previous ones, and specifically could be interesting jqxSplitter module.
Related alternative (similar):
There is also another alternative, that allows to slice panels in the browser windows but in addition allows to drag&drop single panels creating different tabs, and side-by-side sub-windows.
This is called Golden Layout. It's different from previous ones, for many reasons also more powerful but surely at the moment it has not Touch support...
There were a few small problems that caused the behaviour that you don't like.
These were fixed in this Fiddle
The problems were:
When resizing Left, Right is also resized (which it shouldn't)
Fixed by setting a initial width (in percent)
When resizing Left towards full width, Center content is hidden under Right
Couldn't reproduce
When resizing Right the wrapper (Fuchsia-colored) is partly
visible Center bottom is resized through the top of the Center top,
not through it's own top
Fixed by setting left to 0 during resize.
$(".right.pane").resizable({
handles: "e, w",
resize: function(event, ui) {
ui.position.left = 0;
}
});
Center bottom is resized through the top of the Center top, not through it's own top
This is due to that JQuery UI Resizable uses relative positioning which do not work in table cells. Fixed by adding a content div that handles the resize.
<div class="top pane">
<div class="top-content">Center top</div>
</div>
I found one which seems acceptable for this requirement, if you looking for something more minimalistic compared to jEasy UI. : )
http://w2ui.com/web/demo/layout
Also it's no dead project; Seems still active on github https://github.com/vitmalina/w2ui/, which is nice.
I'll give it a try. Just wanted to share this, to save others search time, hopefully.
i'm usign this plugin
with jquery
http://www.bramstein.com/projects/jlayout/jquery-plugin.html
I came up with the answer to this myself, although in the end it took me over a year of development! The result is a modern, responsive panel layout widget built using jQuery and jQuery UI widget factory.
http://www.silvercore.co.uk/widgets/propanellayout/
The best solution at the time the question was asked was undoubtedly jQuery UI.Layout, but over time that project has stagnated and the plugin does not work with jQuery 2. Despite the code being released on GitHub its fate is unknown, which makes using it as the foundation of a long term project questionable.
A few of the other links posted here are dead now and if you don't want or need a full application framework your choices are limited.
OK, hopefully my last edit. Went through a bunch of these, and ended up with jQuery UI layout.
Goldenlayout is nice, but you have to actually add the html in each pane through javascript. If you've got all your stuff in react components I guess this might be fine, but not for my use case.
jQuery UI layout seems to be pretty robust and was just updated in 2014.
You can use Gridstack
It's easy to use and powerful.
Related
<xe:namePicker id="npUserNames" for="hdnUserNames">
<xe:this.dataProvider>
<xe:dominoViewNamePicker viewName="Techs"></xe:dominoViewNamePicker>
</xe:this.dataProvider>
</xe:namePicker>
The Names in the left box of the dialog are center aligned. Same with the right (selected values) box.
I have tried text-align: left css in every possible surrounding element...The table cell, the table it is in, the surrounding div tag, the panel, the layout, the entire xpage. And the content of the namepicker dialog is still centered. How do I fix that? How can I specify the width of the dialog box?
Also, in IE11, the "X" button does not work. Nothing happens when you click it.
I'd recommend interrogating the HTML generated using your browser's developer tools to see if there's a class defined for the relevant HTML tags that you can override. If so, you can use that. If not, you may need to create your own Renderer or extension of the Name Picker to generate different HTML. That will be more complicated, but the trade-off of any framework is limited configurability at the cost of quicker development.
I'm not doing exactly what Withers suggested, but it did lead me to a solution based on a comment somewhere else.
I added a class dojo attribute and assigned a new css class to it. Only issue is that it is shifting everything in the dialog to the left...but it's ok for now.
<xe:this.dojoAttributes>
<xp:dojoAttribute name="class" value="namePickerClass">
</xp:dojoAttribute>
</xe:this.dojoAttributes>
CSS:
.namePickerClass { margin: 0 auto; width: 50%; text-align:left; border: 1px solid blue; scrolling: none;
}
I need "user-friendly" rotate, drag and resizable DIV. But, when this DIV is rotated, RESIZE function works very wierd. Not like in image editor. User can not handle resize properly. How to make it ?
jsFiddle Example
HTML :
<div id="blue"></div>
CSS :
#blue {
top: 100px;
left: 100px;
width:200px;
height:200px;
background-color:blue;
-ms-transform: rotate(120deg); /* IE 9 */
-webkit-transform: rotate(120deg); /* Safari */
transform: rotate(120deg);
}
jQuery
$("#blue").resizable({
aspectRatio: false,
handles: 'ne, se, sw, nw'
});
$("#blue").draggable();
Worked on a similar Question: How to get four corners rotate handle for a rotatable div..?
In this, OP wanted to add rotation handles to each corner. But it's a good example of what you're reporting too.
Take a look at: https://jsfiddle.net/Twisty/7zc36sug/
HTML
<div class="box-wrapper">
<div class="box">
</div>
</div>
Wrapping the box helps out for Draggable.
jQuery
$(function() {
// Assign Draggable
$('.box-wrapper').draggable({
cancel: ".ui-rotatable-handle"
});
// Assign Rotatable
$('.box').resizable().rotatable();
});
Resizing when at a rotated angle changes the location of the box, it's width and height, and causes it to move in a sort of weird way. This is why it does not work like it might in some graphics programs.
Since you did not indicate what you would prefer the behaivor to be like, I cannot properly answer your question: User can not handle resize properly. How to make it?
I hope this helps explain the issue.
I have a presentation set up with reveal.js which is meant to be used unattended. So, I want to be able to show a little footer (or another link somewhere) on all slides that points to an 'Information Slide' with data about the author, how to use the slides etc.
(This is to aid people who don't really know how to use reveal.js as well as to show authorship information in detail.)
I have not been able to find anything in the documentation and there does not seem to be a callback which I can utilize.
This works for me (aligns to left edge as I use built-in controls on right).
Add this to your css:
.reveal .footer {
position: absolute;
bottom: 1em;
left: 1em;
font-size: 0.5em;
}
And in your html:
<div class='reveal'>
<div class='footer'>
Use left and right arrows to navigate
</div>
...
If you want the footer to disappear as soon as user navigates (i.e. it should only be shown on first slide loaded because it is just a reminder), then add this to the end of your html:
<script>
// displayed upon load, hides when slide changes
Reveal.addEventListener('slidechanged', function(event) {
document.querySelector('.reveal .footer').style.display = 'none';
});
</script>
In order to get a fixed content in the PDF export (on all slides) you could find this answer useful.
I have a div with divs inside. The outer one has overflow-y: auto;, so with many internal items the right scrollbar appears. After doing $('#container').selectable(); when I press left mouse button over the scrollbar, it doesn't scroll, but a dotted frame for selecting is shown.
I have found this solution: JQuery UI Selectable plugin: Make scroll bar not selectable when div overflows
Unfortunately, it doesn't work for me, because when I scroll to the bottom, the items stop being selectable. (Though the top ones continue). So, the question is: how make the scrollbar... mmm... a scrolling bar, without splitting the container into 2 divs.
Well, it seems to be all browsers problem: when you click on a scrollbar, a mouse event is fired. This is the real problem, jQuery UI just doesn't solve it. Let's fix it on our own in the jQuery UI .js file (not applied to the min version as it should be obfuscated AFAIK).
Add this condition
if (event.pageX > $(event.target)[0].clientWidth + $(event.target).offset().left)
return;
right after the
_mouseDown: function(event) {
I have seen a lot of such hacks with HasScrollbar() detectors, but don't get why didn't they just sum up client width (that is without scrollbar) and offset to make it relative to the document and compare with pageX. For me it works perfectly.
Use a wrapper div for this , Its working fine for me.
.selectable-wrapper { border-radius: 5px; min-height: 200px; max-height: 200px; overflow-y: auto; border: 1px solid #D1D1D1;}
.selectable { list-style-type: none;padding: 5px;}
<div class="selectable-wrapper">
<ul class="selectable">
</ul>
</div>
In this web site when you shrink the browser window the white space on the left and right disappear first, following by the shrinking of the right panel, followed by the main container panel. I have recently started to use ASP.NET MVC and in my test case my containers drop below the other containers as I resize the browser window. I am using a a site.master page with a left, center and right section as part of the body. It there an attribute in css that dictates the behavior or an HTML element? I have viewed the page source of this site's main page and looked at the CSS but nothing obvious has jumped out at me as how this is being controlled.
One of the great things about web development is that most often, when you see a site and think "How did they do that", it's very easy to look at the code and find out, and also to test it out - tools like Firebug for Firefox, the Developer Tools in IE 8 (F12) and Chrome will all display nicely formatted source and CSS, and will let you modify it in situ.
In the case of SO, the main body of the site is contained in a div with class of "container", the style rules for "container" are:
.container {
margin: 0 auto;
text-align: left;
width: 950px;
}
The key thing we're looking at here is that this class has a fixed width - 950 pixels, and the margins are set to (expanded):
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: auto;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-left: auto;
Setting the left and right margins to "auto" has the affect of centering the div within the edges of it's container, and allowing them to expand to whatever width is needed once the container has taken up the required 950px.
Inside the container div, you then have a div with id "content" (no style rules), and then two divs: "mainbar" and "sidebar" whose styles are:
#mainbar {
float: left;
margin-bottom: 40px;
width: 715px;
}
#sidebar {
float: right;
width: 220px; /* this is also set in the "style" attribute *
}
These left and right floats are what's positioning the bars in the right places.
Another handy CSS rule is:
clear
this can be set to "both", "left" or "right", and will basically reset the floats on the containers.
However, it sounds like you're after what is often called the "Holy Grail of CSS" (Rick points out that there's a bug in this with IE7, see here for a fix) for good reason: Three Columns, with at least one of them flexible.
Other examples, of completely flexible layouts include:
Multi-column layouts climb out of the box
Fluid grids
It can be a combination of float, position, and margin and how you set these elements up. Without a URL, it will be hard to say exactly what the problem is or how to fix it.
For a starting point, I would suggest taking a look at YUI CSS Grids or 960.gs (960 Grid System) and one of the various reset.css files floating around out there. YUI has a very good one. The reset.css file makes your css look and act the same in all browsers and the grid systems give you a starting point for designing your site. They also give you confidence that what you are designing will look and act the same in all browsers.
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/
http://960.gs/
This is a html layout issue. Probaly the asp.net mvc layout is not very well done. Have a search for 'css column layout' on web there are plenty of examples on how to achieve a good layout. See for example In Search of the Holy Grail by MATTHEW LEVINE for a good discussion of a 3 column layout technique.