Creating jQuery Templates – Usage Practice

Creating jQuery Templates – Usage Practice

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jQuery Templates - practice of using

jQuery Templates – practice of using. Today we will talk about jQuery. I going to provide you with basic information to start working with jQuery templates. jQuery templates can help you with formatting data retrieved with an Ajax call (as example). Or, we can use already predefined data. Our example will consist of 2 parts. First one will wrap data as set of photos. Second one – at set of articles. Also, today I will show you (in our example) how to change templates on-fly.

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Ok, download the example files and lets start coding !


Step 1. HTML

Here are full html code of our result gallery. Here are you can see 2 main DIV objects with ID`s: gallery and articles. First one will transformed into gallery, second one – into list of articles.

index.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" >
    <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8" />
        <title>jQuery Templates | Script Tutorials</title>
        <link href="css/main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
        <!--[if lt IE 9]>
          <script src="http://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
        <![endif]-->
        <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js"></script>
        <script src="http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery.templates/beta1/jquery.tmpl.min.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="js/script.js"></script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <div class="container" id="container">
            <h2>Photo gallery example</h2>
            <div class="gallery" id="gallery"></div>
            <hr />
            <h2>Articles</h2>
            <div class="articles" id="articles"></div>
        </div>
        <footer>
            <h2>jQuery Templates (article)</h2>
            <a href="https://www.script-tutorials.com/jquery-templates-practice-of-using/" class="stuts">Back to original tutorial on <span>Script Tutorials</span></a>
        </footer>
    </body>
</html>

Step 2. CSS

Now – all CSS styles

css/main.css

/* page layout */
*{
    margin:0;
    padding:0;
}
body {
    background-color:#bababa;
    color:#fff;
    font:14px/1.3 Arial,sans-serif;
}
footer {
    background-color:#212121;
    bottom:0;
    box-shadow: 0 -1px 2px #111111;
    -moz-box-shadow: 0 -1px 2px #111111;
    -webkit-box-shadow: 0 -1px 2px #111111;
    display:block;
    height:70px;
    left:0;
    position:fixed;
    width:100%;
    z-index:100;
}
footer h2{
    font-size:22px;
    font-weight:normal;
    left:50%;
    margin-left:-400px;
    padding:22px 0;
    position:absolute;
    width:540px;
}
footer a.stuts,a.stuts:visited{
    border:none;
    text-decoration:none;
    color:#fcfcfc;
    font-size:14px;
    left:50%;
    line-height:31px;
    margin:23px 0 0 110px;
    position:absolute;
    top:0;
}
footer .stuts span {
    font-size:22px;
    font-weight:bold;
    margin-left:5px;
}
.container {
    background:#ddd;
    color:#000;
    margin:20px auto 100px;
    padding:20px;
    position:relative;
    width:700px;
    border-radius:5px;
    -moz-border-radius:5px;
    -webkit-border-radius:5px;
    box-shadow:1px 1px 5px #111;
    -moz-box-shadow:1px 1px 5px #111;
    -webkit-box-shadow:1px 1px 5px #111;
}
.container h2 {
    margin-bottom:20px;
    text-align:center;
}
/* css3 photo gallery styles */
.gallery {
    width:610px;
    margin:10px auto;
    position:relative;
}
.gallery a {
    display:block;
    height:100px;
    position:relative;
    width:133px;
}
.gallery a img {
    border:5px solid #fff;
    cursor:pointer;
    display:block;
    height:100%;
    left:0px;
    position:absolute;
    top:0px;
    width:100%;
    z-index:1;
    -moz-user-select: none;
    -khtml-user-select: none;
    user-select: none;
    -moz-box-sizing:border-box;
    -webkit-box-sizing:border-box;
    box-sizing:border-box;
    -webkit-transition-property:width, height, top, bottom, left, right, z-index, border;
    -webkit-transition-duration:0.5s;
    -moz-transition-property:width, height, top, bottom, left, right, z-index, border;
    -moz-transition-duration:0.5s;
    -o-transition-property:width, height, top, bottom, left, right, z-index, border;
    -o-transition-duration:0.5s;
    transition-property:width, height, top, bottom, left, right, z-index, border;
    transition-duration:0.5s;
}
.gallery a:focus img {
    border:15px solid #fff;
    cursor:default;
    height:250%;
    position:absolute;
    width:250%;
    z-index:25;
    top:0px;
    right:0px;
    box-shadow:1px 1px 5px #888;
    -moz-box-shadow:1px 1px 5px #888;
    -webkit-box-shadow:1px 1px 5px #888;
    -webkit-transition-property:width, height, top, bottom, left, right, z-index, border;
    -webkit-transition-duration:0.5s;
    -moz-transition-property:width, height, top, bottom, left, right, z-index, border;
    -moz-transition-duration:0.5s;
    -o-transition-property:width, height, top, bottom, left, right, z-index, border;
    -o-transition-duration:0.5s;
    transition-property:width, height, top, bottom, left, right, z-index, border;
    transition-duration:0.5s;
}
/* custom focus rules */
.gallery a:focus:nth-child(1) img {
    top:0px;
}
.gallery a:focus:nth-child(2) img {
    top:-100px;
}
.gallery a:focus:nth-child(3) img {
    top:-200px;
}
.gallery a:focus:nth-child(4) img {
    top:-300px;
}
/* extra close layer */
.gallery .close {
    background:transparent;
    cursor:pointer;
    display:none;
    height:270px;
    left:0px;
    position:absolute;
    top:0px;
    width:300px;
    z-index:30;
}
.gallery a:focus ~ .close {
    display:block;
}
/* articles */
.articles {
    overflow:hidden;
}
.articles > div {
    border:1px solid #444;
    float:left;
    margin:0 1% 10px;
    width:48%;
    border-radius:5px;
    -moz-border-radius:5px;
    -webkit-border-radius:5px;
    box-shadow: 0 1px 2px #111111;
    -moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px #111111;
    -webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px #111111;
    -moz-box-sizing:border-box;
    -webkit-box-sizing:border-box;
    box-sizing:border-box;
}
.articles div img {
    cursor:pointer;
    float:left;
    margin-right:20px;
    width:128px;
}
.articles div div {
    float:left;
    margin-top:8px;
    width:128px;
}
.articles div div p:nth-child(1) {
    color:#444;
    font-size:12px;
}
.articles div div p:nth-child(2) {
    font-size:17px;
    font-weight:bold;
}
.articles div.sim div p:nth-child(2) {
    cursor:pointer;
}

Step 3. jQuery

Now – its time to understand our JS code (and how work with jQuery templates).

js/script.js

var photos = [
  { Image: '1.jpg', Date: '27 Oct 2011', About: 'This is description about 1.jpg' },
  { Image: '2.jpg', Date: '28 Oct 2011', About: 'This is description about 2.jpg' },
  { Image: '3.jpg', Date: '29 Oct 2011', About: 'This is description about 3.jpg' },
  { Image: '4.jpg', Date: '30 Oct 2011', About: 'This is description about 4.jpg' }
];
$(function(){
    // prepare own custom templates
    $.template('simplePhotos', '<a tabindex="1"><img src="images/${Image}"></a>');
    $.template('simpleArticles', '<div class="sim"><img src="images/${Image}"><div><p></p><p>more details</p></div></div>');
    $.template('extendedArticles', '<div class="ext"><img src="images/${Image}"><div><p>${Date}</p><p>${About}</p></div></div>');
    var selectedItem = null;
    // render Photos and Articles through prepared templates
    $.tmpl('simplePhotos', photos).appendTo('#gallery');
    $('<span class="close"></span>').appendTo('#gallery');
    $.tmpl('simpleArticles', photos ).appendTo('#articles');
    // onclick handling
    $('#articles').delegate('.sim', 'click', function () {
      if (selectedItem) {
        // render via Simple template
        selectedItem.tmpl = $.template('simpleArticles');
        selectedItem.update();
      }
      selectedItem = $.tmplItem(this);
      // render via Extended template
      selectedItem.tmpl = $.template('extendedArticles');
      selectedItem.update();
    }).delegate( '.ext', 'click', function () {
      // render via Simple template
      selectedItem.tmpl = $.template('simpleArticles');
      selectedItem.update();
      selectedItem = null;
    });
});

First at all, I define array of data which we going to use:

var photos = [
  { Image: '1.jpg', Date: '27 Oct 2011', About: 'This is description about 1.jpg' },
  { Image: '2.jpg', Date: '28 Oct 2011', About: 'This is description about 2.jpg' },
  { Image: '3.jpg', Date: '29 Oct 2011', About: 'This is description about 3.jpg' },
  { Image: '4.jpg', Date: '30 Oct 2011', About: 'This is description about 4.jpg' }
];

This is ordinary array with our own fields. Then, I define 3 different jQuery templates (for both purposes):

    $.template('simplePhotos', '<a tabindex="1"><img src="images/${Image}"></a>');
    $.template('simpleArticles', '<div class="sim"><img src="images/${Image}"><div><p></p><p>more details</p></div></div>');
    $.template('extendedArticles', '<div class="ext"><img src="images/${Image}"><div><p>${Date}</p><p>${About}</p></div></div>');

And only after – we will apply our prepared templates using ‘tmpl’ function:

    $.tmpl('simplePhotos', photos).appendTo('#gallery');
    $.tmpl('simpleArticles', photos ).appendTo('#articles');

All rest code uses to switching templates on-fly (in case of clicking to our Articles). Here are way of switching templates:

      selectedItem.tmpl = $.template('extendedArticles');
      selectedItem.update();

I hope that all this was easy.


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Conclusion

Of course, with our tutorial we not cover all of the features of jQuery Templates, but we got basic knowledge. Good luck!

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1 COMMENT

  1. Thank you for this usefull example.
    I would just advice you to give some links like the official jquery templates page.

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