taat / jqrangeslider

A jquery UI range selection slider that supports dates

jQRangeSlider & jQDateRangeSlider

A javascript slider selector that supports dates

• Project page
• Github project
• Online demo
• Unit tests

License

Copyright : Guillaume Gautreau 2010 License : GPL v3. Contact me for using this library in another context

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Dependencies

• jQuery
• jQuery UI core
• jQuery UI widget
• jQuery UI draggable
• jQuery Mousewheel plugin by Brandon Aaron (optional, needed for scrolling or zooming)

Usage

A rangeSlider widget with float values

Javascript reference for development: <script type="text/javascript" src="jQRangeSlider.js"></script> Javascript reference for production: <script type="text/javascript" src="jQRangeSlider-min.js"></script> Range slider creation: $("#element").rangeSlider({/options/});

A rangeSlider with dates

Javascript reference for development: <script type="text/javascript" src="jQRangeSlider.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="jQDateRangeSlider.js"></script> Javascript reference for production: <script type="text/javascript" src="jQAllRangeSliders.js"></script> Range slider creation: $("#element").dateRangeSlider({/options/});

Options

• bounds (default: 0 - 100)
  • Inclusive bounds of the selection range
  • object with two [numerical] fields : min and max
  • example: bounds: {min: 0, max:100}
• defaultValues (default: 20 - 50)
  • Default selected range inside defined bounds
  • object with two [numerical] fields : min and max
  • example: defaultValues: {min: 20, max:50}
• wheelMode: (default: null)
  • Interaction mode when user uses the mouse wheel on the central bar
  • Possible values : "zoom", "scroll" or null
• wheelSpeed: (default: 4)
  • Numerical speed (in % of selected range) of mouse wheel interaction
• arrows: (default: true)
  • boolean value that activate or disactivate scrolling arrows
• valueLabels: ("show", "hide", default:"change")
  • string indicating if value labels have to be displayed
    • "show" indicates that labels must be visible
    • "hide" indicates that labels must be hidden
    • "change" indicates that labels only have to be shown when the user changes a value
• formatter: function(value) returning a string, default: null
  • a formatter function for displayed labels. When set to null, default formatter is used.
• durationIn: default:0
  • fadeIn duration in ms for showing labels on a value change
• durationOut: default:400
  • fadeOut duration in ms for hiding labels after a change
• delayOut: default:200
  • delay before hiding labels after a change

Events

• valuesChanging
• Triggered when the user is moving an element and changing internal values
• Triggered a lot of times during the move
• valuesChanged
• Triggered when the user has moved and element and changed internal values (limits the number of events).
• minValueChanging/maxValueChanging
  • Triggered when the minimum/maximum selected value is starting to change (only fired once during a move)
• minValueChanged/maxValueChanged
  • Triggered has the minimum/maximum selected value have been changed, at the end of the move.

Methods

• scrollLeft(quantity)
• scrollRight(quantity)
• zoomIn(quantity)
• zoomOut(quantity)
• values(min, max) : get or set the values
• min(value): get or set the minimum value
• max(value): get or set the maximum value

Prerequisites

• Element on which .rangeSlider() is applied will be positioned as relative if no positioning is set.
• jQDateRangeSlider.js is only needed by the dateRangeSlider widget.
• jQRangeSlider.js is needed by both widgets

Generating minified jQRangeSlider files

Launch min/compile.sh (on Linux or Mac) or min/compile.bat (on Windows).

Changelog

• 2.1.2: 2011-06-02
  • Issue #6: CSS fix
• 2.1.1: 2011-05-20
  • Integrated Google Closure compiler and script for generating minified version of jQRangeSlider
• 2.1: 2011-03-28
  • Changed helpers name to labels (API change)
  • Labels replaced inside the top level parent element
• 2.0.2: 2011-03-23 bugfix
• 2.0.1: 2011-03-17 bugfix
• 2.0: 2011-03-14
  • Value helpers
  • New events: min/maxValueChanging and min/maxValueChanged
  • Bugfixes
  • Unit tests
• 1.1.1: 2011-03-04 bugfixes on public methods
• 1.1 : 2011-03-03 Added methods for setting and getting only one value
• 1.0.2: 2011-03-03 Set values fix
• 1.0.1: 2011-03-02 Fix for IE8
• 1.0 : 2010-12-28 Initial release