Versions Compared

Key

  • This line was added.
  • This line was removed.
  • Formatting was changed.
Section
Column
width60%

This page will walk you through an example of adding the Fluid Layout Reorderer component to your application.

This tutorial assumes that:

For more general information about the Layout Reorderer, see Layout Reorderer. For technical API documentation, see Layout Reorderer API.

Tutorial: How to Use the Layout Reorderer

Scenario

You're creating a portal system that will aggregate news content from a number of different tech gadgetsources. You'd like to allow site visitors to rearrange the portlets. This tutorial will show you how to use the Fluid Layout Reorderer to offer this functionality.

There are four basic steps to adding the Layout Reorderer to your application:

  • Setup: 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: Styling
Column
Panel
borderColor#321137
bgColor#fff
titleBGColor#aab597
titleStatus
borderStylesolid

This component is in Production status

Panel
borderColor#566b30
bgColor#fff
titleBGColor#D3E3C4
titleOn This Page
borderStylesolid
Table of Contents
minLevel2
maxLevel5
Panel
borderColor#321137
bgColor#fff
titleBGColor#c1b7c3
titleSee Also
borderStylesolid
Panel
borderColor#321137
bgColor#fff
titleBGColor#cccccc
titleStill need help?
borderStylesolid

Join the infusion-users mailing list and ask your questions there.

...

(For more detailed information about this, see also Tutorial - Layout Reorderer Selectors.)

In this example, the <div> element that contains the two columns would be the container. We can identify it by adding, for example, a unique id such as "demo-layoutReorderer":

...