Gridster.js: A jQuery Plugin for Building Intuitive Draggable Layouts

This is it, the mythical drag-and-drop multi-column grid has arrived. Gridster is a jQuery plugin that allows building intuitive draggable layouts from elements spanning multiple columns. You can even dynamically add and remove elements from the grid. It is on par with sliced bread, or possibly better. MIT licensed. Suitable for children of all ages.

Setup

Include dependencies

Gridster is currently written as a jQuery plugin, so you need to include it in the head of the document. Download the latest release at jQuery.

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<script type="text/javascript" src="libs/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.gridster.js"></script>

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HTML Structure

Class names and tags are customizable, gridster only cares about data attributes. Use a structure like this:

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<div class="gridster">
  <ul>
        <li data-row="1" data-col="1" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="1"></li>
        <li data-row="2" data-col="1" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="1"></li>
        <li data-row="3" data-col="1" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="1"></li>
        <li data-row="1" data-col="2" data-sizex="2" data-sizey="1"></li>
        <li data-row="2" data-col="2" data-sizex="2" data-sizey="2"></li>
        <li data-row="1" data-col="4" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="1"></li>
        <li data-row="2" data-col="4" data-sizex="2" data-sizey="1"></li>
        <li data-row="3" data-col="4" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="1"></li>
        <li data-row="1" data-col="5" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="1"></li>
        <li data-row="3" data-col="5" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="1"></li>
       <li data-row="1" data-col="6" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="1"></li>
       <li data-row="2" data-col="6" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="2"></li>
   </ul>
</div>

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Grid it up!

Gridster accepts one argument, a hash of with configuration options. See the documentation for details.

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$(<strong>function</strong>(){ <em>//DOM Ready</em>
    $(".gridster ul").gridster({
        widget_margins<strong>:</strong> [10, 10],
        widget_base_dimensions<strong>:</strong> [140, 140]
    });
});

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[zilla_alert style=”yellow”] Gridster supports:  Internet Explorer 9+, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera.  [/zilla_alert]

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