Posts Tagged: widget

Well, I don’t really see a use for FloatingPane, except as a windowing system for projects like LucidDesktop, but I got the impression that many people just love the FloatingPane. However, it caught my attention these days.

One of its major drawbacks – and the one that keeps it pretty far from becoming a joyful member of the dijit namespace – is the lack of keyboard accessibility. It has plenty of other issues and could use some refactoring, but this one is outstanding. Hm, adding keyboard access shouldn’t be too hard I thought and went for it…
read more »

Though many people would disagree, I for one like to use fieldsets to structure complex forms. Even better do I like fieldsets that are collapsible.

As there is no such fieldset with dojo, I decided to write my own widget. While doing so, I learnt an interesting lesson…

First, I wrote it pretty simple, inheriting the widget from dijit._Widget and dijit._Templated. It had a toggle button next to its legend, which could be clicked. The toggle was a simple display none/block change.
read more »