I have homepage, contact page, and several other product related pages in my app.
The goal is to apply a background image to ONLY specifc routes: /homepage
and /contact
. If user navigates away from either route, apply some css change.
I am hacking this together now with a helper on my homepage, like so:
Template.homepage.rendered = function () {
var route = Router.current();
if ( route.path == '/' ) {
document.body.className = "showBackgroundImage";
}
};
Partial win here, since this will activate the css, but I need to deactivate when route changes. I have also tried the following within my router.js
:
this.route('homepage', {
path: '/',
onAfterAction: function (argument) {
// add a class name to body
document.body.className = "showBackgroundImage";
}
});
And CSS in the background standard:
.showBackgroundImage {
background: url(bgImage.jpg) no-repeat center center fixed;
}
This is easily done using iron:router
layouts and applying a different class to each pages via routing.
First you need to define a main-layout such as :
<template name="mainLayout">
<!-- optional navbar yield -->
{{> yield region="navbar"}}
<div class="{{currentRouteName}}-page">
{{> yield}}
</div>
<!-- optional footer yield -->
{{> yield region="footer"}}
</template>
The currentRouteName
helper should look something like :
UI.registerHelper("currentRouteName",function(){
return Router.current()?Router.current().route.getName():"";
});
Then I recommend associating a RouteController
to your main-layout that will serve as the base class for all of your RouteController
s.
MainController=RouteController.extend({
layoutTemplate:"mainLayout",
// yield navbar and footer templates to navbar and footer regions respectively
yieldTemplates:{
"navbar":{
to:"navbar"
},
"footer":{
to:"footer"
}
}
});
Next you need to make sure that your routes use a controller which is derived from MainController
.
HomeController=MainController.extend({
template:"home"
});
Router.map(function(){
this.route("home",{
path:"/",
// optional, by default iron:router is smart enough to guess the controller name,
// by camel-casing the route name and appending "Controller"
controller:"HomeController"
});
});
So now your home route page is surrounded by a div having an "home-page" class, so you can style it in plain CSS (or better yet, using LESS) :
.home-page{
/* your css goes here */
}
If you define other routes, this will work seamlessly, just inherit from MainController
and you'll have a page with route-name-page class automatically.
Of course, you can use the same style for multiple pages, just specify it in CSS :
.home-page, .contact-page{
/* your css goes here */
}
You can do really nice stuff with layouts, I highly encourage using them.
I've done this exact thing using iron-router
and jQuery
. Here's what I did.
/**
* Add a background image for certain routes.
*/
var setBackground = function () {
var route = this.route.name;
var routes = ['homepage', 'contact'];
if (_.contains(routes, route)) {
$('body').addClass('showBackgroundImage');
} else {
$('body').removeClass('showBackgroundImage');
}
};
Router.onBeforeAction(setBackground);
Using Meteor 1.2 and iron-router, here's what worked really easy for me:
Router.onBeforeAction(function() {
$('body').addClass(this.route.options.template);
this.next();
});
That's it!
This will take the name from the template your are using and assign it to the body.
How easy and convenient!!
If you want to assign a specific name instead of the template name, just replace this.route.options.template
with this.route.getName()
and give a name to your route.