> Slide-in menu
Sometimes the screen of mobile devices is too small to fit all the controls, menus and options of your application. One solution is to create a slide in menu that the user can pull to access additional functions.
Project info
Last code update: 2010.05.28 – v0.1 beta 1
Device compatibility: iPhone/Ipod touch >=2.0, Android >1.6, iPad.
QR Code opens demo page. (On Android you may need to refresh the page once loaded, I’m looking into this issue with QR links).
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Overview
Sometimes the screen of mobile devices is too small to fit all the controls, menus and options of your application. One solution is to create a slide in menu that the user can pull to access additional functions.
The menu is opened both by tapping and pulling the handle.
This widget is ridiculously simple, all it does is to slide in a hidden div on user’s request. Please note that the script is just a draft, I’ll keep developing it if there’s enough interest (see below).
How to use
Initialize the slide in menu on DOMContentLoaded:
menu = new slideInMenu('slidedownmenu');
slidedownmenu is the ID of the element to be slided.
The slider has to be absolutely positioned and the top:
#slidedownmenu {
position:absolute;
width:100%;
height:115px;
top:-115px;
left:0;
z-index:999;
}
The the example I set the top property to -115px so the menu is hidden while the page loads, but it’s not mandatory. The slideInMenu() function takes care of placing the div in the right position.
The handle is positioned to the bottom of the sliding layer. To make it stick out the initially closed menu you just need to set the bottom property equal to the negative value of the handle height:
#slidedownmenu .handle {
-webkit-user-select:none; /* user can't select */
position:absolute;
width:100%;
height:20px;
bottom:-20px;
left:0;
}
Look at the source code of the online demo for details.
Syntax
The function accepts two parameters at startup:
slideInMenu(string ID, bool openAtStartup);
ID is the menu identifier. If you set openAtStartup to TRUE the menu will be in opened when initialized.
You can also open, close and toggle the menu programmatically.
var menu = new slideInMenu('slidedownmenu', true); // Initialize the menu and open it right away
menu.open(); // Open the menu
menu.close(); // Close the menu
menu.toggle(); // Toggle the menu open/close state
Future developments
Add Android compatibilityProgrammatically open/close the menu- Should be possible to place the menu anywhere (ie: slide down/up/left/right)
Revisions history
v0.1 beta 1, 2010.05.28 – Added Android compatibility
v0.1 alpha 1, 2010.05.25 – Initial release
Great plugin, this is really useful. Any suggestions on how to integrate this with jquery mobile?
Hi,
I’m trying to make the bar stay horizontal, however, when “open” it slides left to right.
I like the bar being at the top with a width of 100%, however, I went the menu to fly in from left to right with a height of 100%.
Can you please help?
cool – love your work! simple, solid and useful.
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You may want to take this off the Project State: Active, since there hasn’t been an update in almost 2 years
That said, have you thought about modifying this to handle a 2-row menu (the 2nd row being the “dropdown” for the first) ?
Tom
Is there anyway to change this to make it a slidein-menu from the bottom?
Really awesome, it works fine on Chrome and Safari, too bad it ONLY works there… doesn’t work on IE9, Opera or Firefox.
Good job though.
Meanwhile, this is intended for MOBILE use. Just saying.
This is really awesome, but i have a problem with a android where the website won’t scroll on the mobile page due to the “loaded” function in the file. I take that out and it works fine but obviously the menu bar doesn’t move. How can I fix this, thanks in advance!
Nice! Works properly on blackberry playbook..
It dosen’t work quite well in a web application on iOS 5. It, didn’t worked that well.
When I tried to pull down the menu (full screen web app), well, on iOS 5, the Notification Center slides down first.
Well, there should be a way to move the menu to the bottom, instead.
Great script!
I only have one problem with it though, it’s when you go from portrait to landscape or vise versa. Once you’ve loaded the page in portrait, open the menu and go landscape the elements inside are misplaced as it seems the top/left values are wrongly interpreted. Closing the menu will simply make it go outside the view area and is no longer accessible unless you reload the page. Once you do, however, switching from landscape to portrait works as intended. I believe some sort of rotation detection needs to be added to deal with the element positions!
Any input on this would be highly appreciated as it isn’t very user friendly having to reload the page to bring back the menu / make it work as intended.
Best regards,
Rayken
Hello Matteo, i really need a version of this working from the bottom from the screen, are you interested in charging me to get that done?
I would really love to pay you for this help.
Thanks a lot and keep up with the great work.
Have you had any luck with getting it to work from the bottom?
Hi
Great script, easy setup and works perfect.
One question. I have put a box shadow on the bottom of the panel that slides down and wondered if you new of a way of the box shadow only coming in when the menu is active.
Many Thanks
Excellent job but one issue. When the size of screen get reduces the icon comes out of the menu bar automatically. Is there any way to fix this.
Since I do to forward the buttons?? I have tried with to href and it me does not work
Same problem
I am trying to incorporate this menu into an Android/iPhone app I have developed. A few issues I have:
1. I cannot start the page with menu closed
2. The page does not scroll below the menu
3. The rest of the page attributes are changed when using this
To load page with menu closed you just have to change the value true to false in this line
menu = new slideInMenu(‘slidedownmenu’, true); //open
menu = new slideInMenu(‘slidedownmenu’, false); //closed
To scroll your page content you just have to replace
document.addEventListener(‘touchmove’, function(e){ e.preventDefault(); e.stopPropagation(); });
for
document.getElementById(‘yourID’).addEventListener(‘touchmove’, function(e){ e.preventDefault(); e.stopPropagation(); });
I’m currently working on a web app and implementing the slide-in bar, however, I can’t do custom position. Is there any other way to do that?
basically what I want to do is to move the slide bar down 50px.
Dear Gurus,
can you help me in sliding from bottom? Script of Kamila (2011 07 19) doesnt work.
best regards: Andreas
Hi,
do you have a solution for the SLIDING FROM THE BOTTOM?
Regards,
Sascha
To scroll your page content you just have to replace
document.addEventListener(‘touchmove’, function(e){ e.preventDefault(); e.stopPropagation(); });
for
document.getElementById(‘yourID’).addEventListener(‘touchmove’, function(e){ e.preventDefault(); e.stopPropagation(); });
Did someone find a solution for this plugin to work in horizontal slide?
I am impressed with this slide in menu for mobile devices. I have more than four items in the menu. I know I can change the height from 75px to 150px or something to make it two rows of menu. However, it depends on the size of mobile and orientation as well. If I am in portrait, it would show two rows. If I am in landscape, it would show two rows but all menu items are in first row. I am not sure how to fix it. Another thing is that I want to make all menu item as center. Example: iPad shows 6 menu items in one row but it starts on left side. I want to make them in center so it would not leave too much space on right side. I did try to make it center by using text-align:center or margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto and it did not work. I suspect maybe it has to do with your javascript that controls the menu item to stay on left side? Thank you.
Hey,
Is there a way to use multiple slideInMenu on one page? It seems the secong one wont work is it’s excepted. I mean the second one is unhideable, and starts opened. Basically, like it wouldn’t be a slide-in menu, just a simple div. It’s very important for me.
Thanks,
Matheus
Is there any way sliding menu will work for web browsers
Hello, first of all, congratulations for your work. It helped me a lot in my work!
But still, I have a small problem with the scroll and slide. The problem is that when I combine the two, the scroll does not work on the iPhone but works on Safari web browser on my PC.
What to do to solve this problem?
example:
http://hackidevice.com/app/zzslide
PS: To lower the slide, click on the apple in the footer.
i have a problem,i used your script and demo page but i have a little bit more content in that gray section and i cant even scroll,so it shows just something…
thanks,Holec