I've made a slider with query/slider and styled it with css. ( http://jsfiddle.net/9qwmX/ )
I succeeded to put the selected value into a div container; but now I want the container to 'travel' with the slider accordingly.
I've tried to use the ui.handle
and its css left
property which is a percentage. But the behavior is somewhat strange: sometimes it travels with the left side of the slider and sometimes with an offset of 10px.
Question: does anybody know a good way to let the box containing the slided-value travel with the handle?
You can just attach a tooltip-like div that you can append to the handle so it moves along with it. You just have to position it with CSS, like so:
JS
var initialValue = 2012; // initial slider value
var sliderTooltip = function(event, ui) {
var curValue = ui.value || initialValue; // current value (when sliding) or initial value (at start)
var tooltip = '<div class="tooltip"><div class="tooltip-inner">' + curValue + '</div><div class="tooltip-arrow"></div></div>';
$('.ui-slider-handle').html(tooltip); //attach tooltip to the slider handle
}
$("#slider").slider({
value: initialValue,
min: 1955,
max: 2015,
step: 1,
create: sliderTooltip,
slide: sliderTooltip
});
CSS tooltip borrowed from the twitter bootstrap framework
.tooltip {
position: absolute;
z-index: 1020;
display: block;
padding: 5px;
font-size: 11px;
visibility: visible;
margin-top: -2px;
bottom:120%;
margin-left: -2em;
}
.tooltip .tooltip-arrow {
bottom: 0;
left: 50%;
margin-left: -5px;
border-top: 5px solid #000000;
border-right: 5px solid transparent;
border-left: 5px solid transparent;
position: absolute;
width: 0;
height: 0;
}
.tooltip-inner {
max-width: 200px;
padding: 3px 8px;
color: #ffffff;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
background-color: #000000;
-webkit-border-radius: 4px;
-moz-border-radius: 4px;
border-radius: 4px;
}
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/9qwmX/2/
You can do something like this to build what you want, I am using event.pageX
var newLeft = 100;
$('#move').text(100).css('margin-left',115);
$("#slider").slider(
{
value:100,
min: 0,
max: 500,
step: 50,
slide: function( event, ui ) {
$( "#slider-value" ).html( ui.value );
var pos = (event.pageX > newLeft)? event.pageX + 8
: event.pageX - 42;
newLeft = event.pageX;
$('#move').text(ui.value).css('margin-left',pos);
}
}
);
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/joycse06/Cw6u8/1/
This is how i would have done it. To get you started:
Make use of the "handle" position:
var offset = $('.ui-slider-handle .ui-state-default .ui-corner-all"').offset();
var offsetLeft = offset.left;
var offestTop = offset.top;
Position your slide value box with absolute positioning:
#tijdlijnDatum { position: absolute; }
And do something with it in the slide
event:
$( "#slider" ).slider({
slide: function(event, ui) {
$('#tijdlijnDatum').css({ left: offsetLeft + 'px' }); // etc
}
});