demo at: asyraf9.github.com/jquery-mobile/
This is a plugin for jQuery Mobile that detects your device's browser width and renders pages accordingly - e.g. splitview for desktop and tablets, and standard jqm for mobile phones.
- auto-detection of how to render for the browser you are using.
- independent panel scrolling (still a lot more to work on here)
- orientation and resize aware - renders the side panel in a popover fashion when in portrait mode
- context awareness - can be programmed so that opening a page on the side panel also opens a page on the main panel
- deep-link (and history) awareness - linking to a specific page in the main panel works, and hitting on the back and forward button on your browser also works (only for the main panel pages)
- panel specific links - links on the side panel can affect pages in the main panel, or in the side panel itself.
the anatomy of a splitview page can be seen at the demo page above. Basically, you need to position your pages in the following order:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Page Title</title>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="stylesheets/jquery.mobile-1.0b2.min.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../../compiled/jquery.mobile-1.0b2pre.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="jquery.mobile.splitview.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="jquery.mobile.scrollview.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="jquery.mobile.grids.collapsible.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.6.2.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.mobile.splitview.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../../compiled/jquery.mobile-1.0b2pre.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.easing.1.3.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.mobile.scrollview.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div data-role="panel" data-id="menu">
<!-- Start of first page -->
<div data-role="page" id="foo">
<div data-role="header">
<h1>Foo</h1>
</div><!-- /header -->
<div data-role="content">
<p>I'm first in the source order so I'm shown as the page.</p>
<p>View internal page called <a href="#bar">bar</a></p>
</div><!-- /content -->
<div data-role="footer">
<h4>Page Footer</h4>
</div><!-- /footer -->
</div><!-- /page -->
<!-- other side panel pages here -->
</div>
<div data-role="panel" data-id="main">
<!-- Start of second page -->
<div data-role="page" id="bar">
<div data-role="header">
<h1>Bar</h1>
</div><!-- /header -->
<div data-role="content">
<p>I'm first in the source order so I'm shown as the page.</p>
<p><a href="#foo">Back to foo</a></p>
</div><!-- /content -->
<div data-role="footer">
<h4>Page Footer</h4>
</div><!-- /footer -->
</div><!-- /page -->
<!-- other main panel pages here -->
</div>
</body>
</html>
NOTE: although with this beta2 release I've managed to minimize the amount of changes made in jqm core, there are still about 3 lines of code I needed to add. make sure you use the version provided in this fork of jqm by running 'make' in a terminal, and finding the jquerymobile js and css files in the /compiled folder created by 'make'. (also make sure to run this in the beta2 branch, or you won't get the most up to date files)
pages can also be loaded dynamically provided you specify the panel it needs to load into (as explained below). you need to preload two pages - one for each panel, to avoid an empty page on either of your panels.
there are two settings for panel divs:
-
data-hash - takes the following values: true(default), false, and crumbs this attribute tells splitview to track history for the panel or not (true and false), or to set a 'crumb' (crumbs) button at the top left portion of the header for each page.
-
data-context - takes a jQuery selector value, or a hash of the following: url, panel, refresh. data-context tells splitview to load another page whose link can be found in the active page by the jQuery selector value, or a page which is pointed to by the hash. example:
OR
<div data-role="panel" data-id="menu" data-hash="crumbs" data-context='{"url":"#bar", "panel":"main", "refresh":false}'>
NOTE: this attribute, if used on a page, overrides panel data-context attributes. example:
<div data-role="page" data-context="a#default">
splitview links work just like the links in jQuery Mobile. the only difference is, you can define the panel you want the page that link points to load into using the 'data-panel' attribute. for example:
<a href="some_other_page" data-panel="main">
this method also loads ajax pages.
that's about it! splitview does everything else for you... enjoy it, and let me know if you have any issues with it! thanks!