412 Responses

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   phillip November 24, 2013 at 1:47 am · Reply →

   Let me start by saying … I am very new to both JQuery and coding in general. That being said, I seem to have been able to implement containerPlus successfully. I see methods? that allow you to initialize the container closed or collapsed but none for dock. Can you briefly explain how I could have a container start in the docked position.

   Thanks – plugin is really helpful. Never could have done this on my own.

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      pupunzi November 24, 2013 at 5:25 pm ·

      Hi Phillip,
      As for the other container property you have to add the “iconize” data attribute passing the id of the “dock” where you need the container iconize at start:

      ...

      That way the container will start as iconized inside the specified “dock”.

      Bye,
      Matteo

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   Michael September 9, 2013 at 3:12 pm · Reply →

   I love this control, I’ve used the older version in a few project and I’m currently working on a new project using 3.52 and I love the added customization options. So much better then the haks I’ve used in the past.

   What I was wondering is if there was a way to return a value from a method?

   I’ve added a custom Method that works like jquery html for changing the contents of my containers, but I can’t get it to return the contents. All it returns is false.

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      pupunzi September 9, 2013 at 9:06 pm ·

      Hi Michael,
      methods can’t return value actually;
      You can anyway attach the returned value as DATA of the container and then get it back:
      in the method you can set: el.data("html", value)

      But if your need is to change the content of a container there’s yet the “changecontent” method you can use:

      jQuery.containerize.addMethod("changecontent", function(ajaxURL, data){
jQuery.cMethods.changecontent = {name: "changecontent", author:"pupunzi", type:"plug-in", version:"1.0"};
var el = this;
var contentPlaceHolder = el.content;

      // if data is a string convert it to object
      data = data!=null && typeof data == "string" ? eval("("+data+")") : data;

      var request = jQuery.ajax({
url : ajaxURL,
type : "GET",
data : data,
cache : false,
dataType: "html"
});
request.done(function (resp) {
contentPlaceHolder.html(resp);
});
request.fail(function (jqXHR, textStatus) {
contentPlaceHolder.html("error: "+textStatus);
});
return el.$;
})

      Bye,
      Matteo

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      Michael September 9, 2013 at 9:31 pm ·

      Thanks, for the response. I hadn’t thought of using the data to get the data out. I’ll probably use that.

      I started with the changecontent method, but I want to keep all my calls going through a single function so I thought just having an easy way to change the content on the fly would be handy. I’ve also written a custom title method to change the title of my containers.

      I really like being able to have a single file with all my custom additions to containerPlus.

      Thanks for making so many great plugins.

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      pupunzi September 12, 2013 at 7:45 pm ·

      Hi,
      I’ll see to fix the “return false” problem with the next release.
      Keep in touch,
      Matteo