recently for a website I am working on I wanted to create a horizontal divider capable of resizing two elements on a page using jquery.
Basically:
Content
___Divider_____
Content
When: the divider is dragged, it should resize the "Content" elements either side of it to the users desired size.
Here is what i have so far.
<div id="WorkRequests"></div>
<div id="Divider" style="height:10px; padding:5px; cursor:n-resize;"><hr /></div>
<div id="WorkRequest_Ajax"></div>
And the script:
var totalHeight = $("#Divider").parent().height();
function ResizePage(divPosition) {
var validDrag = true;
// Math
var minPercent = totalHeight * 0.25;
var minBuffer = totalHeight * 0.05;
var topHeight = divPosition.top - $("#content").position().top;
var bottomHeight = (totalHeight - divPosition.top);
// Check Drag
if (topHeight < minPercent) {
validDrag = false;
$("#WorkRequests").height(minPercent + minBuffer);
}
if (bottomHeight < minPercent) {
validDrag = false;
$("#WorkRequest_Ajax").height(minPercent + minBuffer);
}
// Set Heights
if (validDrag) {
$("#WorkRequests").height(topHeight);
$("#WorkRequest_Ajax").height(bottomHeight);
}
return validDrag;
}
$("#Divider").draggable({ axis: "y", drag: function (event, ui) { return ResizePage($(this).position()); } });
However when I drag the divider it simply jumps around and locks at either extremity, I have tried many different calculations etc, but I am afraid I just simply do not understand the factors in resizing both elements.
So does anyone know a jquery plugin that will do this for me, or how i can fix my attempt?
Thanks, Alex.