html-svg-connect v2.0.0

HTML SVG connect

jQuery plugin for drawing paths between arbitrary HTML elements (with SVG).

Usage

First, load jQuery and the plugin:

<script src="jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="jquery.html-svg-connect.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Attach it to your container element on DOM ready, and define your paths as an array. Each path is an object with the start and end elements defined as CSS selector IDs:

(The elements don't have to be different; you can specify that any one element connects with any number of different elements.)

<script type="text/javascript">
    jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
      $("#svgContainer").HTMLSVGconnect({
        paths: [
          { start: "#red", end: "#aqua" },
          { start: "#purple", end: "#green" }
        ]
      });
    });
</script>

This will draw an SVG graphic with two pipes between the respective elements, and recalculate them as the window re-sizes.

Options

These are defined as properties at the same level as the paths property.

The global options can also be overridden on a per path basis:

{
  stroke: "00FF00",
  strokeWidth: 12,
  paths: [
    { start: "#red", end: "#aqua", stroke: "#FF0000", strokeWidth: 8 },
    { start: "#purple", end: "#green", orientation: "vertical" }
  ]
}

Author

Owain Lewis / A115

Based on work by alojzije: connectHTMLelements_SVG.png

Other

MIT License