Simple overlay instructions for your apps.
Chardin.js is a jQuery plugin that creates a simple overlay to display instructions on existent elements. It is inspired by the recent Gmail new composer tour which I loved.
Simple! Fork this repo or download chardinjs.css and chardinjs.min.js and add the following assets to your HTML:
<link href="chardinjs.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="chardinjs.min.js"></script>There's a chardinjs-rails gem.
If you choose to fork the repo you can build the assets running
rake compile
Add the instructions to your elements:
data-intro: Text to show with the instructions
data-documentation-text: Optional text for the suffix link, defaults to 'more...'
data-documentation-link: Optional link address, defaults to '#'
data-open-documentation-active-window: Optional attribute, if specified opens the link in current tab/window.
data-position: (left, top, right, bottom), where to place the text with respect to the element, defaults to 'bottom'
<img src="img/chardin.png" data-intro="An awesome 18th-century painter, who found beauty in everyday, common things."
data-position="right" data-documentation-link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste-Siméon_Chardin"
data-documentation-text="Read more?"/>Once you have your elements ready you can show instructions running
$('body').chardinJs('start')If you would rather run ChardinJs confined to a particular container (instead of using the whole document) you can
change body to some other selector.
$('.container').chardinJs('start')Start ChardinJs in the selector.
Toggle ChardinJs.
Make your best guess. That's right! Stops ChardinJs in the selector.
Triggered when chardinJs is correctly started.
Triggered when chardinJs is stopped.
If you want to contribute, please:
- Fork the project.
- Make your feature addition or bug fix.
- Add yourself to the list of contributors in the README.md.
- Send me a pull request on Github.
Copyright 2013 Pablo Fernandez
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
