jQuery Bracket World Plugin

Examples

Examples With Options

Options can be sent in the invocation — this example creates an 11 team bracket, with 50 pixels of spacing from the top of the container in a 700 pixel space, zoomed out to 75% scale with helper icons and specific team names/seeds:

$('#bracket1').bracket( { teams:11, topOffset:50, height:'700px', scale:0.75, icons:true, teamNames: [ { name:'Illinois', seed:'6' }, { name:'Iowa', seed:'11' }, { name:'Indiana', seed:'5' }, { name:'Penn State', seed:'4' }, { name:'Michigan State', seed:'1' }, { name:'Michigan', seed:'10' }, { name:'Ohio State', seed:'7' }, { name:'Wisconsin', seed:'9' }, { name:'Minnesota', seed:'8' }, { name:'Northwestern', seed:'3' }, { name:'Purdue', seed:'2' } ] });

Click on any first round matchup to try out the move functionality.

View option documentation

Like any proper jQuery plugin, you can send a collection of DOM elements in the invocation. As written, this example will generate a bracket with the same characteristics in both containers.

$('#bracket3, #bracket4').bracket({teams:8});

Options Documentation

teams

Between 2 and 256 (practical limit) — the number of teams in the bracket.

Default: 2

scale

Between 0 and 1 — the zoom level of the bracket,

Default: 0 (automatic zoom level based on # of teams)

scaleDelta

Between 0 and 1 — the amount of zoom change that occurs when zooming in/out.

Default: 0.25

height

Pixel height of the bracket area.

Default: '500px' (does not impact the bracket itself as the area will scroll if it does not accomodate the dimensions)

topOffset

Pixel spacing between the top of the container and the top of the bracket.

Default: 105

teamWidth

Pixel width of a team name in the bracket.

Default: 200 (recommend not changing this unless also changing the font size in the css)

teamNames

JSON array representing team names and seeds to populate on the bracket. The order of how the entries are applied are as follows (relative to a vertical representation of the bracket): top-half bracket first round, top-half bracket second round (if applicable), bottom-half bracket first round, bottom-half bracket second round (if applicable). A horizontal representation works in a similar way except the right half of the bracket is flipped so that the entries are populated from the bottom line to the top line. The images below clarify the ordering.

How Teams Are Populated In The Bracket World jQuery Plugin (vertical)
How Teams Are Populated In The Bracket World jQuery Plugin (horizontal)

Default: none — Example: [{ name:'Illinois', seed:'6' }, { name:'Iowa', seed:'11' }]

horizontal

0 or 1 — determines whether to display the bracket in a horizontal (1) or vertical (0) representation.

Default: 1

rectFill

Color (hex or css — recognized string name) for the bracket's lines.

Default: '#ff0000'

bgcolor

Background color (hex or css — recognized string name) for the bracket's container.

Default: '#f2f2f2'

transition

Milliseconds or jQuery — recognized string that sets the transition speed for the .fadeIn()/ .fadeOut()during bracket zooms/perspective changes.

Default: 'fast'

icons

True or false — whether or not to show the zoom/perspective change icons above and below the bracket area.

Default: true

API

To perform operations on the bracket after invocation, leverage the .data("bracket")attribute that's a part of the returned jQuery object. All of the below methods can be chained.

zoomIn

Inputs:

Examples:

Default behavior of zooming in by scaleDelta (default: 25%):

var theBracket = $('#bracket1').bracket({teams:7, height:'590px'});
thebracket.data("bracket").zoomIn();

Defining a scale and then taking an action after the zoom completes:

var theBracket = $('#bracket1').bracket({teams:7, height:'590px'});
thebracket.data("bracket").zoomIn(0.75, function(e){alert('All Done Zooming In');});

zoomOut

Inputs:

Examples:

Default behavior of zooming out by scaleDelta (default: 25%):

var theBracket = $('#bracket1').bracket({teams:7, height:'590px'});
thebracket.data("bracket").zoomOut();

Defining a scale and then taking an action after the zoom completes:

var theBracket = $('#bracket1').bracket({teams:7, height:'590px'});
thebracket.data("bracket").zoomOut(0.25, function(e){alert('All Done Zooming Out');});

setVertical

Inputs:

Example:

Setting the bracket to a vertical perspective and taking an action after the switch completes:

var theBracket = $('#bracket1').bracket({teams:7, height:'590px'});
thebracket.data("bracket").setVertical(function(e){alert('All Done Setting Vertical');});

setHorizontal

Inputs:

Example:

Setting the bracket to a horizontal perspective and taking an action after the switch completes:

var theBracket = $('#bracket1').bracket({teams:7, height:'590px'});
thebracket.data("bracket").setHorizontal(function(e){alert('All Done Setting Horizontal');});

setTeams

Inputs:

To understand how these values are populated, look at your bracket in vertical orientation and the seeds/names will be added from top to bottom in the first round of the top half of the bracket followed by the second round of the top half of the bracket (if there are byes) then from top to bottom in the first round of the bottom half of the bracket followed by the second round of the bottom half of the bracket (if there are byes).

It's important to note that the right half of the bracket in a horizontal orientation will flip the team lines. This is due to the rotations and translations involved in creating the horizontal representation from the vertical.

How Teams Are Populated In The Bracket World jQuery Plugin (vertical)
How Teams Are Populated In The Bracket World jQuery Plugin (horizontal)

Example:

var theBracket = $('#bracket1').bracket({teams:7, height:'590px'});
thebracket.data("bracket").setTeams( [ { name:'Texas', seed:'5' }, { name:'Kansas', seed:'4' }, { name:'Kansas State', seed:'1' }, { name:'Baylor', seed:'7' }, { name:'Texas Tech', seed:'3' }, { name:'TCU', seed:'2' }, { name:'Oklahoma State', seed:'8' } ]);

Notes

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