Offside.js

Offside.js is a minimal JavaScript kit without library dependencies to push things off-canvas using just class manipulation. It's goal is to provide a super-lightweight, efficient and customizable way of handling off-canvas menus/elements on modern website and web applications.

Offside.js comes with its own default stylesheet which make use of CSS 3D transform, but you can write your own CSS hooking your style with Offside classes. This ensures super flexibility and completely decouples Offside.js from your style/markup.

Demos

• Single element
• Single element (without css 3dtransforms)
• Multiple elements
• Multiple elements (without css 3dtransforms)
• Typical setting

Features:

• Minimal DOM manipulations
• No library dependencies
• Uses CSS3 3D transforms (if you want to)
• No injected style. Offside entirely relies on classes manipulations
• BEM-like style
• Degrades gracefully on browsers not supporting CSS3 3D transforms
• Handles multiple off-canvas elements
• Left/right off-canvas
• Style agnostic
• No need of extra classes or any specific markup.
• Consumable as

  commonJS

  /

  ES

  module with a

  require('offside-js')

Browser Compatibility

All modern browsers and ie9+.

Offside.js relies on EventTarget.addEventListener / removeEventListener and querySelector / querySelectorAll methods without any fallback.

Check relative browser compatibility: - EventTarget.addEventListener / removeEventListener - querySelector / querySelectorAll

Usage instructions

Install:

You can install Offside.js as a Bower or NPM dependency.

# Bower
bower install offside --save

NPM
npm install offside-js --save

1. Link files:

...or import as a module:

  import 'offside-js/dist/offside.css';
  import offside from 'offside-js';

2. Markup example:

  
  Offside toggle

  
  

  
  

    ...
  

Offside.js is designed to work with your existing HTML.

It doesn't pre-requires any specific markup. When Offside initializes It just adds a few classes on existing DOM elements.

3. Hook up the plugin:

What are "sliding elements"?

slidingElementsSelector

Use it only when you need your page to slide together with you off-canvas element.

4. Customizable options:

  var myOffside = offside( '#my-menu', {

  // Global offside options: affect all offside instances
  slidingElementsSelector: '#my-content-container', // String: Sliding elements selectors ('#foo, #bar')
  disableCss3dTransforms: false,                    // Disable CSS 3d Transforms support (for testing purposes)
  debug: true,                                      // Boolean: If true, print errors in console

  // Offside instance options: affect only this offside instance
  buttonsSelector: '#my-button, .another-button',   // String: Offside toggle buttons selectors ('#foo, #bar')
  slidingSide: 'right',                             // String: Offside element pushed on left or right
  init: function(){},                               // Function: After init callback
  beforeOpen: function(){},                         // Function: Before open callback
  afterOpen: function(){},                          // Function: After open callback
  beforeClose: function(){},                        // Function: Before close callback
  afterClose: function(){},                         // Function: After close callback    
  });

Global offside options are set when first Offside instance is created. This happens because Offside factory is created when the first

offside()

Public methods

Offside.js plays well with your application. Each Offside instance exposes the following methods:

offsideInstance.toggle();

offsideInstance.open();

offsideInstance.close();

offsideInstance.closeAll();

offsideInstance.destroy();

How does it work?

When the first Offside element is initialized, a singleton Offside factory is created and used to return the first Offside instance. The factory keeps track of all initialized Offside elements.

Offside.js is entirely based on classes injection and custom callbacks. No style is DOM injected. Never!

Classes are injected in just 3 elements: - body - off-canvas elements - sliding elements

Here a brief explanation.

1. Initialization

Callbacks fired:

• init()

Injected classes:

  

<!-- Off-canvas element -->
<div class="offside offside--left">

<!-- Sliding element -->
<div class="offside-sliding-element&gt;
</pre>
<h3>2. First offside open</h3>
<p>On first interaction with an Offside instance, <code>offside-js--interact</code> class is added to body. Sometime useful to avoid unexpected CSS behaviours on startup.</p>
<h4>Injected classes:</h4>
<pre class=" language-html>  
3. Offside open

Callbacks fired:


beforeOpen()
afterOpen()


Injected classes:
  

  
  


4. Offside closed

Callbacks fired:


beforeClose()
afterClose()


Injected classes:
  

  
  


Tips and Tricks


Set off-canvas elements width directly into 
offside.css
 stylesheet.
Replace 
offside.css
 with 
offside-no-css-3d-transforms.css
 stylesheet and and set 
disableCss3dTransforms
 setting to 
true
 to try the fallback.


Do you really need a JS plugin?

If you need to set up a simple off-canvas menu, you might not need JS! This Chris Coyer's post explains a nice solution which relies on CSS :target selector. ie9+ only!

Known bugs

Off-canvas elements blocked on the page

On some old mobile browsers ( as Android 2.2.2 FroYo ) off-canvas elements won't get out the page on page load.

This happens because their internal browser do not officially support CSS transforms (see can I use chart), but, according to my experience, they only support it partially. Infact these browser are able to pass Offside CSS 3dTransform test and do not activate Offside fallback strategy.

Offside instances are normally set to 
position: fixed
 and these browser are not able to apply 
translate3d
 transform to fixed positioned element.

An easy - but simplistic - fix, is to switch 
.offside
 position to 
absolute
 and properly set a relative position to a parent element (of course, it might  have an impact on your page layout):
.offside {
    position: absolute;
}

Off-canvas elements inside a sliding element

Like this:
  
  


<!-- Off-canvas element  -->
<nav id="my-offside-element">
  ...
</nav>
...
  

When an element receives a 3D transform style, It creates a containing block for all its descendants that have been set to 
position: fixed
 or 
position: absolute
. Read more here.

To do's

Some ideas for the future. If you'd like to see any of the following realized, please contribute or open an issue.


Expose Offside factory initialization method (now called on first Offside instance initialization)

Customizable Offside classes
Declare a different set of sliding elements for each Offside instance
Add an option to let more than one Offside instance open at same time
Replace GruntJS with npm script tasks
Replace callbacks with global events (maybe)

Remove CSS 3D Transform Support check (maybe)



Working on the repository

Make sure you have node and npm on your machine. When ready, you can install Offside.js dependencies:
npm install
# or
npm run setup

Once everything is set up, work in 
src
 directory and build 
dist
 files using:
npm run watch
# or
npm run build

Updating gh-pages branch (just a reminder)
git checkout gh-pages
git checkout master demos
git checkout master dist

Versioning

Starting from version 1.3.0, this library uses semantic versioning.

Thanks to


Christopher Yee's pushy.js
Viljami Salminen's responsive-nav.js