This page will walk you through an example of adding the Fluid Pager component to an HTML file.

This tutorial assumes that:

• you are already familiar with HTML, Javascript and CSS
• you are familiar with what the Pager is and does
• now you just want to know how to add it to your file.

For more general information about the Pager, see Pager. For technical API documentation, see Pager API - v0.5.

Tutorial: How to Use the Pager

Scenario

You've created a database to keep track of your vast collection of CDs, and you're working on a web interface for it. You'd like to break up long listings of search results into shorter, more managable chunks. This tutorial will show you how to use the Fluid Pager for this.

There are four basic steps to adding the Pager to your application:

• Step 0: Download and install the Fluid Infusion library
• Step 1: Prepare your markup
• Step 2: Write the script
• Step 3: Add the script to your HTML
• Step 4: Apply styles

The rest of this tutorial will explain each of these steps in detail.

Unless you've added styles to your mark-up, you will see in a browser that it doesn't actually look like the example shown up in Step 1, but rather like the image on the right.

In addition to the general lack of prettiness, there's no styling to indicate what the current page is, for one. Also, when you're on the first or last link, the 'previous' or 'next' link (usually) should be disabled. (See the Pagination Design Pattern for more info on this.)