Guide Your Users Around The Web Application - jQuery Tour.js

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Guide Your Users Around The Web Application - jQuery Tour.js

Tour.js is a jQuery plugin that provides your users a configurable, navigatable, step-by-step, guided tour around your web application. The plugin has the ability to highlight a given element with a fullscreen overlay to introduce the new features or functions on the webpage.

How to use it:

1. Include the jQuery Tour.js plugin with its basic stylesheet on the webpage.

<link href="css/tour.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.1.min.js"></script>
<script src="js/tour.js"></script>

2. Specify the element you want to highlight and set the tour title using 'data-tour-title' attribute as this:

<button data-tour-title="Button To Highlight">Element</button>

3. If you want to add more details about the tour step.

<button data-tour-title="Button To Highlight"
        data-tour-description="More Description Here">
        Element
</button>

4. Initialize the plugin to start the tour.

PageTour.open

5. Possible plugin options to config the guided tour.

{
  prefix : 'tour',
  horizontalPadding : 20,
  verticalPadding : 5,
  generalPadding : 5,
  nextText : 'Next',
  prevText : 'Previous',
  exitText : 'Exit',
  thisControl : 'PageTour'
}

Change log:

2017-08-08

  • Tour functionality update

2017-06-22

  • Update tour.js

2017-06-16

  • Moved the discovery to the 'open' method.

2017-06-14

  • Fixed the direction buttons (assigned to correct buttons)

This awesome jQuery plugin is developed by crash83k. For more Advanced Usages, please check the demo page or visit the official website.