dropmic v0.3.3

Introduction

dropmic is a lightweight dropdown plugin written in pure javascript

• No dependencies required
• No extra files to download
• Fully customizable via CSS
• Simple API

Documentation

Installation

Then dropmic have some css you will have to add (feel free to custom it for a better integration in your UI):

<link rel="stylesheet" href="dist/dropmic.min.css">

Finally just link the dropmic's code at the end of your document:

<!-- Browser build -->
<script src="dist/dropmic.min.js"></script>

Or as a JS module:

// ES6 module build
import dropmic from 'dropmic'

Use

Create the base layout for your button

1. Add data-dropmic-btn attribute to your button
2. Create a div with a dropmic css class
3. Add a data-dropmic-direction attribute to the div (default behavior: bottom-right):

• data-dropmic-direction="top-left"
• data-dropmic-direction="top-right"
• data-dropmic-direction="top-middle"
• data-dropmic-direction="bottom-left"
• data-dropmic-direction="bottom-right"
• data-dropmic-direction="bottom-middle"

4. You can also add a data-dropmic attribute to you div for target it.

Example:

<div class="dropmic" data-dropmic="42"
data-dropmic-direction="bottom-right">
  <button data-dropmic-btn>click me</button>
  <div class="dropmic-menu" aria-hidden="true">quality content</div>
</div>

Instantiate your new dropdown

var dropmic = new Dropmic(document.querySelector('[data-dropmic="42"]'));

Add content

You can create the content by yourself or use the API (cf. below)

Use this template (<div class="dropmic-menu" aria-hidden="true"> is needed, otherwise you can completely customize his content)

<div class="dropmic" data-dropmic="42" data-dropmic-direction="bottom-right" role="navigation">
    <button data-dropmic-btn>click me</button>
    <div class="dropmic-menu" aria-hidden="true">
        <div class="dropmic-menu__custom">Custom content</div>
        <ul class="dropmic-menu__list" role="menu">
            <li class="dropmic-menu__listItem" role="menuitem">
                <a class="dropmic-menu__listContent" href="http://example.com" tabindex="-1">label link</a>
            </li>
            <li class="dropmic-menu__listItem" role="menuitem">
                <button class="dropmic-menu__listContent" tabindex="-1">label button</button>
            </li>
        </ul>
    </div>
</div>

API

You can use the API to generate content and open or close your dropdown with JS:

Example:

dropmic.setCustomContent("toto custom");
dropmic.addLink('link label', 'http://example.com');
dropmic.addBtn('close dropdown', function() {
  dropmic.close();
});
dropmic.addLabel('text label');

Options

Example:

var dropmic = new Dropmic(document.querySelector('[data-dropmic="1"]'), {
  onOpen: function() {
      dropmic.updateTargetBtn("Click to close");
  },
  onClose: function() {
      dropmic.updateTargetBtn("Bottom right (default)");
  }
});

Modify dropmic

1. Setup dependencies: npm i (or npm ci if you don't want to impact package-lock)
2. Run hot-reloads server for development npm run dev
3. (Build for production npm run build)

Roadmap

• Add open and close public method in the API
• Add top-middle and bottom-middle direction
• A11y friendly (with keyboard navigation)
• Permit to update button content with dropdown is open
• Instantiate severals dropmic with one initialization command
• Permit to update a list item value

Licence

Released under the MIT LICENSE