 JavaScript Page 2 - Using the Persist Argument in a TreeView jQuery Navigation System |
| JavaScript Page 2 - Using the Persist Argument in a TreeView jQuery Navigation System |
Reviewing the unique and toggle options - JavaScriptWelcome to the fifth episode of a series covering how to build a hierarchical navigation system with the TreeView jQuery plug-in. Comprised of six parts, this series walks you through mastering the main features provided by this plug-in.
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In case you still haven't had the opportunity to read the preceding part of this series, where I discussed how to use the "unique" and "toggle" arguments, in the next few lines I reintroduced the examples developed there, so you can see at a glance how to work with them. Here's how those examples were created:
(example on using the 'unique' option)
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title>Example on jQuery TreeView (using the unique option)</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="jquery.treeview.css" type="text/css" /> <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.treeview.js"></script> <script> // build treeview after web page has been loaded $(document).ready(function(){ $("#menu").treeview({ unique: true }); }); </script> </head> <body> <ul id="menu"> <li>Link 1 <ul> <li>Sub link 1</li> <li>Sub link 2</li> <li>Sub link 3</li> <li>Sub link 4</li> <li>Sub link 5</li> </ul> </li> <li>Link 2 <ul> <li>Sub link 1</li> <li>Sub link 2</li> <li>Sub link 3</li> <li>Sub link 4</li> <li>Sub link 5</li> </ul> </li> <li>Link 3 <ul> <li>Sub link 1</li> <li>Sub link 2</li> <li>Sub link 3</li> <li>Sub link 4</li> <li>Sub link 5</li> </ul> </li> <li>Link 4 <ul> <li>Sub link 1</li> <li>Sub link 2</li> <li>Sub link 3</li> <li>Sub link 4</li> <li>Sub link 5</li> </ul> </li> <li>Link 5 <ul> <li>Sub link 1</li> <li>Sub link 2</li> <li>Sub link 3</li> <li>Sub link 4</li> <li>Sub link 5</li> </ul> </li> </ul> </body> </html>
(example on using the 'toggle' option)
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title>Example on jQuery TreeView (using the toggle option)</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="jquery.treeview.css" type="text/css" /> <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.treeview.js"></script> <script> // build treeview after web page has been loaded $(document).ready(function(){ $("#menu").treeview({ toggle: function(){ alert('This list has been clicked on!'); } }); }); </script> </head> <body> <ul id="menu"> <li>Link 1 <ul> <li>Sub link 1</li> <li>Sub link 2</li> <li>Sub link 3</li> <li>Sub link 4</li> <li>Sub link 5</li> </ul> </li> <li>Link 2 <ul> <li>Sub link 1</li> <li>Sub link 2</li> <li>Sub link 3</li> <li>Sub link 4</li> <li>Sub link 5</li> </ul> </li> <li>Link 3 <ul> <li>Sub link 1</li> <li>Sub link 2</li> <li>Sub link 3</li> <li>Sub link 4</li> <li>Sub link 5</li> </ul> </li> <li>Link 4 <ul> <li>Sub link 1</li> <li>Sub link 2</li> <li>Sub link 3</li> <li>Sub link 4</li> <li>Sub link 5</li> </ul> </li> <li>Link 5 <ul> <li>Sub link 1</li> <li>Sub link 2</li> <li>Sub link 3</li> <li>Sub link 4</li> <li>Sub link 5</li> </ul> </li> </ul> </body> </html>
As depicted above, understanding how to use the "unique" and "toggle" arguments is a quite straightforward process. In this case, the first of the code samples shown before demonstrates how to utilize the "unique" option to limit the opening of a tree's branches to only one at a time, while the second example shows how to display a basic JavaScript alert each time a branch is expanded and collapsed respectively. Simple to code and read, isn't it? Well, now that you hopefully grasped the logic that drives the two previous examples, it's the perfect moment to leap forward and continue exploring some other helpful features offered by the "TreeView" plug-in. As I expressed in the introduction, the plug-in comes bundled with another handy argument that allows you to recall the status of a targeted tree across different HTTP requests, which can be really useful for creating persistent hierarchical navigational menus. Therefore, in the following segment I'm going to explain in more detail how to take advantage of this feature. Please click on the link shown below and read the section to come.
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