I'm hoping someone can suggest a UI that I've actually never seen used.
I've got a lot of data that needs to be displayed in a fixed height scrolling div and to make it more palatable, the client wants sub-data to be displayed in an accordian div that can be expanded and closed.
The problem is that the sub-data is also potentially lengthy and requires a fixed header so that the user understands what's in each column. Please see the fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/J5qFA/34/
You'll have to use your imagination a little, but consider the grey bars as headers on expandable divs and the one labled as "Expanded" is a header that's been clicked, showing its contents. (Note that expanding one header toggles closed any open div.)
The black bar is the data header and the yellow content is the data.
Is there a way to make the black bar "stick" to the top of the scrolling window so it's always visible when the user navigates down the yellow content? Note that it shouldn't appear over the top of any grey headers, so only needs to stick to the top of the scrolling window if the user scrolls down to see more yellow data.
And if not, is there a better way to ensure that the black header is always visible above the yellow data?
Oh, and I don't want to nest scrollbars, obviously!
Hope this makes sense!
Give the yellow data div a fixed height and overflow-y:auto.
http://jsfiddle.net/J5qFA/35/
ive also remove overflow:scroll on the outer
Well, Don't know if there is a better way, but one way (I would think of) to do it is using jQuery scroll, than attaching the black bar classes according to the position of the screen using window.pageYOffset and window.scrollTo(0, y).
I guess you might have 3 cases:
The black bar is under the top of the screen - show it as usual.
The black bar is above the top of the screen, and it's div is is the screen - use position: fixed;
The black bar is above as well as it's div - same as 1.
sorry, but I don't have the time now to write the code up but if you'll choose to do it this way i'll be happy to help.
Good luck anyhow!
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I'm using Angular UI Grid in a project. The grid sizes itself so that all the columns fit horizontally in a div.
This works great, until there are more rows than fit on one screen. Then, a vertical scroll bar comes up (good), which covers part of the last column (bad). Horizontal scroll bars can be enabled to reach those last 20 or so px, but when you scroll horizontally, the header cells don't scroll. This throws everything out of alignment.
Since the grid was perfectly sized before the scroll bar, there should not be a need for the horizontal scroll bar. But the way the scroll bar covers the content means that without it, you can't see anything that might be in the right 20 or so px.
I need to fix this. Here are some solutions I have looked into implementing, unsuccessfully:
Find some way to know if there is a vertical scroll bar and add padding or margin somewhere to push in the content of both the header cell and the data cell, to keep things in alignment. I haven't found an easy way to grab the container who may or may not have a scroll bar and then I think the logic to ask it if it has a scroll bar would be brittle. Plus, just playing around with adding padding where I think it should go did not effectively push over the content.
Find a way to let the container with the scroll bar push outside of the grid when it has a scroll bar. This has basically the same issue as #1 in that that guy is pretty slippery.
Find a way to replace the scroll bar with my own. It seems that there is someone who did a branch that lets you do this with a specific library, but we are tied to a specific commit of UI Grid and adding libraries takes an act of congress.
Thoughts?
How you can know if there is a vertical scrollbar :
If you haven't customized the rows with a rowTemplate, then you might be having a rowHeight of 30px (if not please inspect).
var dataRowHeight = (numberOfRows * 30) + padding (if you have);
var gridElementHeight = angular.element("#my-ui-grid-div-id")[0].offsetHeight;
if (dataRowHeight > gridElementHeight) {
// you have a verticalscrollbar
}
Safe side : specify width for all columns by % and leave 1% behind for the scrollbar.
Ugly side : Get the width of the 'viewport', loop through and calculate the actual pixels from your provided percentage for all columns, if you detect a vertical scrollbar using the technique above, leave 15px behind.
I am trying to do something that should be simple but is apparently not so. I just want to make a simple single line navigation bar using a list tag. Thats fine, I can do it. The problem is making it wrap gracefully and still keep the same layout when it needs to appear over multiple rows due to not enough horizontal browser space.
As I say, I'm using a list tag and I have the ride side border of each LI item with a visible vertical line to make the divider appear. The final item I am not shwoing that with a last-child pseudo class. Its important that the far left and right buttons DON'T have vertical borders. This is clear in the top image.
The UL tag itself also has a top/bottom border line visible and in the first demo in the image you can see this clearly.
So now what happens when the menu bar wraps... well there there are 2 key problems...
1) The main issue is that when the menu wraps I can't think of a way to make the new MIDDLE horizontal line appear [shown in red in the 2nd image]
2) Multiple list items now don't need a right side border value. In the example 2 list items don't need a right side border. This could grow to 3 though for some screen displays.
Does anyone have any ideas for resolving this?
Note that I am trying to make the menu wrap naturally, not at fixed pixel break points as its so unreliable for something like this with different pixel density screens and font zooms in certain browsers.
When the content of my slides in a deck.js presentation gets larger than the vertical window, the browsers are shrinking the displayed content.
The more content, the smaller the display gets. The effect seems 'page' wide, as the top left corner of the slide moves further away from the top left corner of the browser window -- as if I were zooming out from the page. I can navigate to the all of content with the mouse, but no scrollbar appears.
What is going on here, and how do I get control of the display size in these situations?
(Apologies for a possibly poor question -- I don't know quite enough CSS to know what additional information I should or could provide here. I'd be glad to add in answer to questions.)
Thanks.
If you want to keep consistent (constant) font size and layout across slides, I would recommend using the "fit" extension from this page http://home.heeere.com/tech-deckjs-ext.html .
On the negative side, this extension currently prevents you from using the horizontal and vertical transition themes. It could be patched to allow these transitions.
On the positive side, this extension will allow you to have a scrollbar on your slide. You can do that by adding the following style in your page:
div.deck-container > .slide {overflow-y: scroll;}
Link to site in question: http://www.christopherwarrington.com/testing_ground
I have a start screen that is set to z-index 100 to make sure it is above all other DIVs. When you click the Enter button, the Start screen slides away.
The Main DIV is set to a z-index of 50.
The problem is that when the Start screen slides away, you can read everything within the Main DIV, but can not necessarily click the links. You can see this in effect at the end of the 3rd paragraph. If you scroll the mouse over the link, the left side will not allow you to click it, but the right side does.
Now, if I change the z-index of the Main DIV to be higher than that of the Start Screen, all links are accessible, but the Start screen slides up and down behind the Main DIV, which is not useful.
I am at a loss. I do not know why when the Start screen slides out of view, why it prevents the links from working. I am sure I am missing something obvious and I appreciate any advise from an extra pair of eyes. Thank you.
The start screen div is covering up the rest of the content so that clicks that appear to be over a link are actually over the start screen, and thus do nothing. Somehow the bottom area of the start div is transparent, so it is covering those links and making them unclickable even though you can't even see it. The easiest way to fix this would probably be getting rid of that transparent part. The easiest way to fix this would be to get rid of that transparent part, which is coming from the div with id="enter_btn_wrapper". The div is currently set to have a height of 500px and a width of 300px, which makes it come down right in the middle of the page over your content. It doesn't cover everything; notice how you can still click links that are farther down the page or far to one side with no problem.
Seeing as all this div does is provide a handle for you to position the actual div with the button as its background 75px about it, you can set its height to 0px and be good to go.
i have made in my asp.net applictation a small div container, which is draggable (in this way: Make jQuery-ui draggable handle cover entire page).
I want to make clear, that the normal user knows instinctively, that he/she can drag this container around the page.
I have set the cursor via CSS to cursor: move;.
But with this solution the user only gains the knowledge while moving the mouse over the small container.
How can I make sure, the user knows from the beginning, that this small div is draggable?
You can set this kind of image on div which is draggable. This image will always visible so user can get to know easily this div is draggalbe and of course by the css you can put it center over the div. and image will type of png so it will not look ugly and you can apply transparency that hand image so contant of the div can visible even image is over the div.
and yes there are other suggestion also given by #Prabhavith and #Matt Lowe..you can also work around with that.
The only way I've seen this done that makes any sense to me is to have a faintly written message with the word "Drag" and arrows pointing through the four ordinals centered in the div.
Like the image in the linked question, you can make your draggable div look more like a traditional desktop window. Users are used to dragging around windows that have a title bar across the top and minimize,mazimize, and close buttons, and a border with an optional bevel. Approximating this style will help communicate draggability.
Likewise, having the border around the div grow darker or highlight will help communicate draggability as well.
You can go through this site http://www.asp.net/ajaxLibrary/AjaxControlToolkitSampleSite/DragPanel/DragPanel.aspx