Widgster

Small jQuery plugin that provides an easy way to handle basic widget functions like collapsing, closing, ajax-refreshing & fullsreening.

Demo

Advanced Demo

Use

To apply all these features to your default widget you have to add appropriate links (or buttons) to it:

<section class="widget">
    <header>
        <h3>Header</h3>
        <div class="widget-controls">
            <a data-widgster="load" href="#">Reload</a>
            <a data-widgster="expand" href="#">Expand</a>
            <a data-widgster="collapse" href="#">Collapse</a>
            <a data-widgster="fullscreen" href="#">Fullscreen</a>
            <a data-widgster="restore" href="#">Restore</a>
            <a data-widgster="close" href="#">Close</a>
        </div>
    </header>
    <div class="widget-body">
        Body
    </div>
</section>

In the example above links are put into a .widget-controls but you can put them anywhere inside of widget.

Then widgster needs to be initialized via javascript:

$('.widget').widgster();

As you could guess data-widgster attribute defines widget action to be performed when link is clicked.

Actions

• close - closes the widget;
• collapse - collapses (minimizes) the widget. An element holding this data attribute will be hidden when widget gets expanded;
• expand - expands the widget. An element holding this data attribute will be hidden when widget gets collapsed;
• fullscreen - fullscreens the widget. An element holding this data attribute will be hidden when widget gets restored;
• restore - restores the widget back to its position. An element holding this data attribute will be hidden when widget gets fullscreened;
• load - reloads widget content from the url provided with data-widget-load attribute.

All actions may be called via js:

$('.widget').widgster('close');

Options

• collapsed - if true collapses widget after page load;
• fullscreened - if true fullscreens widget after page load;
• bodySelector - widget body selector. Used for loading and collapsing. Default is .body;
• load - an url to fetch widget body from. Default is undefined;
• showLoader - whether to show a loader when ajax refresh performed. Default is true;
• autoload - whether to automatically perform ajax refresh after page load. May be set to an integer value. If set, for example, to 2000 will refresh the widget every 2 seconds. Default is false;
• closePrompt(callback) - a function to be called when closing. Closing is only performed when callback is called.

Widgster accepts an object with options:

$('.widget').widgster({
    collapsed: true
});

Events

Each action fires both before and after event. Events have the same names as actions. Before event may be canceled.

For example, to make refresh button spin:

$('.widget').on("load.widgster", function(){
    $(this).find('[data-widgster="load"] > i').addClass('fa-spin')
}).on("loaded.widgster", function(){
    $(this).find('[data-widgster="load"] > i').removeClass('fa-spin')
});