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Responsive & Fluid Drag-and-Drop Grid Layout with jQuery - gridstack.js

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Publish Date:	11/11/2014 05:35:36 UTC
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More features:

Also supports touch events.
Resizable grid items.
Supports nested grid items.
Compatible with Bootstrap 3/4 framework.
No jQuery required (v2.0.0+)

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Basic Usage (Vanilla JS Version):

1. Install & Download the package.

# Yarn
$ yarn add gridstack

# NPM
$ npm install gridstack --save

2. Include the necessary JavaScript and CSS files on the page.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/gridstack.min.css" />
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/gridstack.all.js"></script>

3. Insert optional grid items to the Grid Stack container and pass the options via data-option attributes as follows:

<div class="grid-stack">
  <div class="grid-stack-item">
    <div class="grid-stack-item-content">Item 1</div>
  </div>
  <div class="grid-stack-item" data-gs-width="2">
    <div class="grid-stack-item-content">Item 2 wider</div>
  </div>
</div>

4. Initialize the plugin and done.

var grid = GridStack.init();

5. All default options.

var grid = GridStack.init({


    // accept widgets dragged from other grids or from outside
    // true (uses '.grid-stack-item' class filter) or false
    // string for explicit class name
    // function (i: number, element: Element): boolean
    acceptWidgets: false,

    // turns animation on
    animate: false,

    // amount of columns and rows
    column: 12,
    row: 0,

    // max/min number of rows
    maxRow: 0,
    minRow: 0,

    // widget class
    itemClass: 'grid-stack-item',

    // class for placeholder
    placeholderClass: 'grid-stack-placeholder',

    // text for placeholder
    placeholderText: '',

    // draggable handle selector
    handle: '.grid-stack-item-content',

    // class for handle
    handleClass: null,

    // allow for selecting older behavior (adding STYLE element to HEAD element instead of parentNode)
    styleInHead: false,

    // one cell height
    cellHeight: 60,
    cellHeightUnit: 'px',

    // margin
    margin: 10,
    marginUnit: 'px',

    // or
    marginTop: 10,
    marginBottom: 10,
    marginLeft: 10,
    marginRight: 10

    // if false it tells to do not initialize existing items
    auto: true,
    
    // minimal width.
    minWidth: 768,

    // class set on grid when in one column mode
    oneColumnModeClass: 'grid-stack-one-column-mode',

    // set to true if you want oneColumnMode to use the DOM order and ignore x,y from normal multi column layouts during sorting. This enables you to have custom 1 column layout that differ from the rest.
    oneColumnModeDomSort: false,

    // enable floating widgets
    float: false,

    // makes grid static
    staticGrid: false,

    // if true the resizing handles are shown even the user is not hovering over the widget
    alwaysShowResizeHandle: false,

    // allows to owerride jQuery UI draggable options
    draggable: {handle: '.grid-stack-item-content', scroll: true, appendTo: 'body'},

    // specify the class of items that can be dragged into the grid
    dragIn: false,
    dragInOptions : {
      revert: 'invalid',
      handle: '.grid-stack-item-content',
      scroll: false,
      appendTo: 'body'
    },

    // allows to owerride jQuery UI resizable options
    resizable: {autoHide: true, handles: 'se'},

    // disallows dragging of widgets
    disableDrag: false

    // disallows resizing of widgets
    disableResize: false,

    // if `true` turns grid to RTL. 
    // Possible values are `true`, `false`, `'auto'`
    rtl: 'auto',

    // if `true` widgets could be removed by dragging outside of the grid
    removable: false,
    removableOptions: {
      accept: 'grid-stack-item'
    },

    // time in milliseconds before widget is being removed while dragging outside of the grid
    removeTimeout: 2000,

    // CSS class when in one column mode
    disableOneColumnMode: 'grid-stack-one-column-mode',

    // class that implement drag'n'drop functionallity for gridstack
    ddPlugin: null
    
});

6. API methods.

// Creates a new widget.
grid.addWidget(el, {
  // options
  x, y, width, height, autoPosition, minWidth, maxWidth, minHeight, maxHeight, id, locked, noResize, noMove, resizeHandles
});

// Initailizes batch updates. 
// You will see no changes until commit method is called.
grid.batchUpdate();

// Relayout grid items to reclaim any empty space.
grid.compact();

// Gets current cell height.
grid.cellHeight();

// Update current cell height.
// grid.cell_height(grid.cell_width() * 1.2);
grid.cellHeight(val, noUpdate);

// Gets current cell width.
grid.cellWidth();

// Set/get the number of columns in the grid
// Require gridstack-extra.min.css
grid.column(column, doNotPropagate)

// Set the top/right/bottom/left margin between grid item and conten
grid.margin(value: numberOrString);

// Finishes batch updates. Updates DOM nodes. You must call it after batch_update.
grid.Commit();

// Set/get floating widgets
grid.float(val);

// Get current cell height
grid.getCellHeight();

// Disables / enables widgets moving/resizing.
grid.movable('.grid-stack-item', false);
grid.resizable('.grid-stack-item', true); 

// Get the position of the cell under a pixel on screen.
// position - the position of the pixel to resolve in absolute coordinates, as an object with top and leftproperties
// useOffset - if true, value will be based on offset vs position (Optional. Default false). Useful when grid is within position: relative element
// Returns an object with properties x and y i.e. the column and row in the grid.
grid.getCellFromPixel(position, useOffset);

// Return list of GridItem HTML dom elements (excluding temporary placeholder)
grid.getGridItems();

// Return current margin value.
grid.getMargin();

// Checks if specified area is empty.
grid.isAreaEmpty(x, y, width, height);

// Load the widgets from a list
grid.load(layout: GridStackWidget[], boolean | ((w: GridStackWidget, add: boolean) => void) = true)

// Locks/unlocks widget.
// el - widget to modify.
// val - if true widget will be locked.
grid.locked(el, val);

// Make new widgets after new items are appended to the grid.
grid.makeWidget(el);

// Set the minWidth/maxWidth for a widget.
grid.minWidth(el, val);
grid.maxWidth(el, val);

// Set the minHeight/maxWidth for a widget.
grid.minHeight(el, val);
grid.maxHeight(el, val);

// Removes widget from the grid.
// detachNode - if false node won't be removed from the DOM
grid.removeWidget(el, detachNode);

// Removes all widgets from the grid.
// detachNode - if false node won't be removed from the DOM
grid.removeAll(detachNode);

// Changes widget size
grid.resize(el, width, height);

// Changes widget position
grid.move(el, x, y);

// Enables/Disables resizing.
grid.resizable(el, val);

// Enables/Disables moving.
grid.movable(el, val);

// Updates widget position/size.
grid.update(el, x, y, width, height);

// Returns true if the height of the grid will be less the vertical constraint. Always returns true if grid doesn't have height constraint.
grid.willItFit(x, y, width, height, autoPosition);

// Toggle the grid animation state.
// doAnimate - if true the grid will animate.
grid.setAnimation(doAnimate);

// Modify number of columns in the grid
// doNotPropagate - if true existing widgets will not be updated.
// NOTE: Use column() instead in v1.0+
grid.setColumn(column, doNotPropagate);

// Update widget position/size.
grid.setStatic(staticValue);

// Toggle the grid static state
// staticValue - if true the grid becomes static.
grid.update(el, x, y, width, height));

// Destroy the instance
// detachGrid - if false nodes and grid will not be removed from the DOM
grid.destroy([detachGrid]);

// Enables/disables the plugin
grid.enable();
grid.disable();

// Enables/disables widget moving. includeNewWidgets will force new widgets to be draggable as per doEnable's value by changing the disableDrag grid option.
grid.enableMove(doEnable, includeNewWidgets);

// Enables/disables widget resizing. includeNewWidgets will force new widgets to be resizable as per doEnable's value by changing the disableResize grid option. 
grid.enableResize(doEnable, includeNewWidgets);

// Return the layout of the grid that can be serialized (list of item non default attributes, not just w,y,x,y but also min/max and id). 
grid.save(true/false);

7. Event handlers.

grid.on('added', function(event, items) {
  // after new items are added
});

grid.on('change', function(event, items) {
  // fired on change
});

grid.on('disable', function(event) {
  // var grid = event.target;
});

grid.on('dragstart', function(event, ui) {
  // var grid = this;
  // var element = event.target;
});

grid.on('dragstop',  function(event, ui) {
  // var grid = this;
  // var element = event.target;
});

grid.on('dropped',  function(event, previousWidget, newWidget) {
  // after dropped
});

grid.on('enable',  function(event) {
  // var grid = event.target;
});

grid.on('removed',  function(event, items) {
  // after removed
});

grid.on('resizestart',  function(event, el) {
  // var grid = this;
  // var element = event.target;
});

grid.on('resizestop',  function(event, items) {
  // on stop resizing
});

Basic Usage (jQuery Version):

1. Include jQuery library and other required resources in the the document.

jQuery
jQuery UI
jQuery UI Touch Punch: for touch support (OPTIONAL)
gridstack.poly.js: for IE and older browsers (OPTIONAL)

<!-- Local -->
<link href="/path/to/gridstack.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<!-- Or From A CDN -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/gridstack.min.css" />

2. Include the jQuery Gridstack.js plugin and other required resources at the end of the document.

<!-- Dependencies -->
<script src="/path/to/cdn/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="/path/to/cdn/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
<script src="/path/to/cdn/jquery.ui.touch-punch.min.js"></script>

<!-- jQuery Gridstack.js -->
<script src="gridstack.all.js"></script>
<!-- Or from a CDN -->
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/gridstack.all.js"></script>
<!-- Polyfill for old IE -->
<script src="gridstack.poly.js"></script>

3. Create a sample draggable grid layout as follows.

gs-animate: turns animation on (for grid)
gs-column: amount of columns (for grid)
gs-max-row: maximum rows amount, defaults to 0 (for grid)
gs-current-height: current rows amount (for grid)
gs-id: unique ID (for item)
gs-x, data-gs-y: element position (for item)
gs-width, data-gs-height: element size (for item)
gs-max-width, gs-min-width, gs-max-height, gs-min-height: element constraints (for item)
gs-no-resize: disable element resizing (for item)
gs-no-move: disable element moving (for item)
gs-auto-position: tells to ignore data-gs-x and data-gs-y attributes and to place element to the first available position (for item)
gs-locked: the widget will be locked. It means another widgets couldn't move it during dragging or resizing. The widget is still can be dragged or resized. You need to add data-gs-no-resize and data-gs-no-move attributes to completely lock the widget (for item)
gs-resize-handles: resize handles (for item)
gs-static-grid: whether to make grid static

<div class="grid-stack" data-gs-width="12">
  <div class="grid-stack-item" gs-x="0" data-gs-y="0" gs-width="4" gs-height="2">
    <div class="grid-stack-item-content"></div>
  </div>
  <div class="grid-stack-item" gs-x="4" data-gs-y="0" gs-width="4" gs-height="4">
    <div class="grid-stack-item-content"></div>
  </div>
  <div class="grid-stack-item" gs-x="8" gs-y="0" gs-width="2" gs-height="2" gs-min-width="2" gs-no-resize="yes">
    <div class="grid-stack-item-content"> <span class="fa fa-hand-o-up"></span> Drag me! </div>
  </div>
  <div class="grid-stack-item" gs-x="10" gs-y="0" gs-width="2" gs-height="2">
    <div class="grid-stack-item-content"></div>
  </div>
  <div class="grid-stack-item" gs-x="0" gs-y="4" gs-width="2" gs-height="2">
    <div class="grid-stack-item-content"></div>
  </div>
  <div class="grid-stack-item" gs-x="2" gs-y="4" gs-width="2" gs-height="4">
    <div class="grid-stack-item-content"></div>
  </div>
  <div class="grid-stack-item" gs-x="8" gs-y="4" gs-width="4" gs-height="2">
    <div class="grid-stack-item-content"></div>
  </div>
  <div class="grid-stack-item" gs-x="0" gs-y="6" gs-width="2" gs-height="2">
    <div class="grid-stack-item-content"></div>
  </div>
  <div class="grid-stack-item" gs-x="4" gs-y="6" gs-width="4" gs-height="2">
    <div class="grid-stack-item-content"></div>
  </div>
  <div class="grid-stack-item" gs-x="8" gs-y="6" gs-width="2" gs-height="2">
    <div class="grid-stack-item-content"></div>
  </div>
  <div class="grid-stack-item" gs-x="10" gs-y="6" gs-width="2" gs-height="2">
    <div class="grid-stack-item-content"></div>
  </div>
</div>

4. Call the plugin and create a responsive & fluid 12 columns grid layout.

$(function () {
  $('.grid-stack').gridstack({
    column: 12
  });
});

5. All possible options and defaults available.

$('.grid-stack').gridstack({

  // accept widgets dragged from other grids or from outside
  // true (uses '.grid-stack-item' class filter) or false
  // string for explicit class name
  // function (i: number, element: Element): boolean
  acceptWidgets: false,

  // turns animation on
  animate: false,

  // amount of columns
  column: 12,

  // max/min number of rows
  maxRow: 0,
  minRow: 0

  // maximum rows amount
  height: 0, 

  // widget class
  itemClass: 'grid-stack-item',

  // class for placeholder
  placeholderClass: 'grid-stack-placeholder',

  // text for placeholder
  placeholderText: '',

  // draggable handle selector
  handle: '.grid-stack-item-content',

  // class for handle
  handleClass: null,

  // allow for selecting older behavior (adding STYLE element to HEAD element instead of parentNode)
  styleInHead: false,

  // one cell height
  cellHeight: 60,

  // gap size
  // e.g. '5px 10px 0 20px' or '5em 10em'
  margin: 10,

  // unit
  verticalMarginUnit: 'px',
  cellHeightUnit: 'px',

  // if false it tells to do not initialize existing items
  auto: true,
  
  // minimal width.
  minWidth: 768,

  // class set on grid when in one column mode
  oneColumnModeClass: 'grid-stack-one-column-mode',

  // set to true if you want oneColumnMode to use the DOM order and ignore x,y from normal multi column layouts during sorting. This enables you to have custom 1 column layout that differ from the rest.
  oneColumnModeDomSort: false,

  // enable floating widgets
  float: false,

  // makes grid static
  staticGrid: false,

  // if true the resizing handles are shown even the user is not hovering over the widget
  alwaysShowResizeHandle: false,

  // allows to owerride jQuery UI draggable options
  draggable: {handle: '.grid-stack-item-content', scroll: true, appendTo: 'body', containment: null},

  // let user drag nested grid items out of a parent or not
  dragOut: false,

  // allows to owerride jQuery UI resizable options
  resizable: {autoHide: true, handles: 'se'},

  // disallows dragging of widgets
  disableDrag: false

  // disallows resizing of widgets
  disableResize: false,

  // if `true` turns grid to RTL. 
  // Possible values are `true`, `false`, `'auto'`
  rtl: 'auto',

  // if `true` widgets could be removed by dragging outside of the grid
  removable: false,

  // time in milliseconds before widget is being removed while dragging outside of the grid
  removeTimeout: 2000,

  // CSS class when in one column mode
  disableOneColumnMode: 'grid-stack-one-column-mode',

  // class that implement drag'n'drop functionallity for gridstack
  ddPlugin: null

});

6. API methods methods.

// Creates a new widget.
grid.addWidget(el, x, y, width, height, autoPosition, minWidth, maxWidth, minHeight, maxHeight, id);

// Initailizes batch updates. 
// You will see no changes until commit method is called.
grid.batchUpdate();

// Relayout grid items to reclaim any empty space.
grid.compact();

// Gets current cell height.
grid.cellHeight();

// Update current cell height.
// grid.cell_height(grid.cell_width() * 1.2);
grid.cellHeight(val, noUpdate);

// Gets current cell width.
grid.cellWidth();

// Returns current vertical margin value.
grid.verticalMargin();

// value - new vertical margin value.
// noUpdate - if true, styles will not be updated.
grid.verticalMargin(value, noUpdate)

// Finishes batch updates. Updates DOM nodes. You must call it after batch_update.
grid.Commit();

// set/get floating widgets
grid.float(val);

// Disables / enables widgets moving/resizing.
grid.movable('.grid-stack-item', false);
grid.resizable('.grid-stack-item', true); 

// Get the position of the cell under a pixel on screen.
// position - the position of the pixel to resolve in absolute coordinates, as an object with top and leftproperties
// useOffset - if true, value will be based on offset vs position (Optional. Default false). Useful when grid is within position: relative element
// Returns an object with properties x and y i.e. the column and row in the grid.
grid.getCellFromPixel(position, useOffset);

// Checks if specified area is empty.
grid.isAreaEmpty(x, y, width, height);

// Locks/unlocks widget.
// el - widget to modify.
// val - if true widget will be locked.
grid.locked(el, val);

// Make new widgets after new items are appended to the grid.
grid.makeWidget(el);

// Set the minWidth/maxWidth for a widget.
grid.minWidth(el, val);
grid.maxWidth(el, val);

// Set the minHeight/maxWidth for a widget.
grid.minHeight(el, val);
grid.maxHeight(el, val);

// Removes widget from the grid.
// detachNode - if false node won't be removed from the DOM
grid.removeWidget(el, detachNode);

// Removes all widgets from the grid.
// detachNode - if false node won't be removed from the DOM
grid.removeAll(detachNode);

// Changes widget size
grid.resize(el, width, height);

// Changes widget position
grid.move(el, x, y);

// Enables/Disables resizing.
grid.resizable(el, val);

// Enables/Disables moving.
grid.movable(el, val);

// Updates widget position/size.
grid.update(el, x, y, width, height);

// Returns true if the height of the grid will be less the vertical constraint. Always returns true if grid doesn't have height constraint.
grid.willItFit(x, y, width, height, autoPosition);

// Toggle the grid animation state.
// doAnimate - if true the grid will animate.
grid.setAnimation(doAnimate);

// Modify number of columns in the grid
// doNotPropagate - if true existing widgets will not be updated.
// NOTE: Use column() instead in v1.0+
grid.setColumn(column, doNotPropagate);

// Update widget position/size.
grid.setStatic(staticValue);

// Toggle the grid static state
// staticValue - if true the grid becomes static.
grid.update(el, x, y, width, height));

// Destroy the instance
// detachGrid - if false nodes and grid will not be removed from the DOM
grid.destroy([detachGrid]);

// Enables/disables the plugin
grid.enable();
grid.disable();

// Enables/disables widget moving. includeNewWidgets will force new widgets to be draggable as per doEnable's value by changing the disableDrag grid option.
grid.enableMove(doEnable, includeNewWidgets);

// Enables/disables widget resizing. includeNewWidgets will force new widgets to be resizable as per doEnable's value by changing the disableResize grid option. 
grid.enableResize(doEnable, includeNewWidgets);

7. Event listeners available.

$('.grid-stack').on('added', function(event, items) {
  // after new items are added
});

$('.grid-stack').on('change', function(event, items) {
  // fired on change
});

$('.grid-stack').on('disable', function(event) {
  // var grid = event.target;
});

$('.grid-stack').on('dragstart', function(event, ui) {
  // var grid = this;
  // var element = event.target;
});

$('.grid-stack').on('dragstop',  function(event, ui) {
  // var grid = this;
  // var element = event.target;
});

$('.grid-stack').on('dropped',  function(event, previousWidget, newWidget) {
  // after dropped
});

$('.grid-stack').on('enable',  function(event) {
  // var grid = event.target;
});

$('.grid-stack').on('removed',  function(event, items) {
  // after removed
});

$('.grid-stack').on('resizestart',  function(event, ui) {
  // var grid = this;
  // var element = event.target;
});

$('.grid-stack').on('gsresizestop',  function(event, items) {
  // on stop resizing
});

Changelog:

v3.0.0 (2020-11-30)

Native HTML5 drag&drop plugin included
Fix placeholder not having custom GridStackOptions.itemClass. thanks @pablosichert
Fix dragging between 2 grids and back (regression in 2.0.1)
Fix load() into 1 column mode doesn't resize back to 12 correctly
Fix update(el, opts) re-write to take all GridStackWidget options (not just x,y,width,height) and do everything efficiently.
Hiding locked(), move(), resize(), minWidth(), etc... as they just simply call update() which does all the constrain now as well!
Del ddPlugin grid option as we only have one drag&drop plugin at runtime, which is defined by the include you use (HTML5 vs jquery vs none)
Change attribute data-gs-min-width is now gs-min-w. We removed 'data-' from all attributes, and shorten 'width|height' to just 'w|h' to require less typing and more efficient (2k saved in .js alone!)
Also GridStackWidget used in most API width|height|minWidth|minHeight|maxWidth|maxHeight are now shorter w|h|minW|minH|maxW|maxH

v2.2.0 (2020-11-08)

add margin option now support multi values CSS format '5px 10px 0 20px' or '5em 10em'
add data-gs-static-grid attribute
fix class="ui-draggable-disabled ui-resizable-disabled" have been added back to static grid items, so existing CSS rule to style continue working
fix getting DOM element by id with number works (api that uses GridStackElement handle more string formats)
fix setting marginTop (or any 4 sides) to cause resize to break

v2.1.0 (2020-10-29)

fix grid static: true to no longer add any drag&drop (even disabled) which should speed things up, and setStatic(T/F) will now correctly add it back/delete for items that need it only.
Also fixed JQ draggable warning if not initialized first
add addWidget(opt) now handles just passing a GridStackWidget which creates the default divs, simplifying your code. Old API still supported.
add save(saveContent = true) now lets you optionally save the HTML content in the node property, with load() restoring it
add GridStackWidget.content now lets you add any HTML content when calling load()/save() or addWidget()
add ColumnOptions to column(n, options) for multiple re-layout options, including 'none' that will preserve the x and width, until out of bound/overlap

v2.0.2 (2020-10-06)

fix animate to not re-create CSS style each time (should be faster too) and made it default now since so much nicer. pass {animate: false} grid options if you want instant again
fix resizable: { handles: ...} forcing alwaysShowResizeHandle behavior

v2.0.1 (2020-09-27)

lots of bugs fixes

v2.0.0 (2020-09-05)

re-write to native Typescript, removing all JQuery from main code and API (drag&drop plugin still using jqueryui for now)
add getGridItems() to return list of HTML grid items
add {dragIn | dragInOptions} grid attributes to handle external drag&drop items
add save() and load() to serialize grids from JSON, saving all attributes (not just w,h,x,y)
add margin to replace verticalMargin which affects both dimensions in code, rather than one in code the other in CSS.
You can now have perfect square cells (default)
fix #1299 many columns round-off error
fix #1102 loose functionality when they are moved to a new grid
add optional params to removeWidget() to have quiet mode (no callbacks)

v1.2.1 (2020-09-05)

Enable the UMD behavior for bundlers compatibility

v1.2.0 (2020-05-18)

fix domAttr is not defined
adds styleInHead option to allow for selecting older behavior (adding STYLE element to HEAD element instead of parentNode)
update jquery to v3.5.1

v1.1.2 (2020-05-18)

fixed: staticGrid no longer disable oneColumnMode
fixed: options broken with ember hash helper - thanks @btecu
fixed: don't remove item from another grid
fixed: init() clones passed options so second doesn't affect first one
fixed: addWidget() ignores data attributes

v1.1.1 (2020-04-13)

jQuery was removed from the API and dependencies (initialize differently, and methods take/return GridStack or HTMLElement instead of JQuery).
Updated Doc accordingly.

v0.6.4 (2020-02-18)

optimized change callback to save original x,y,w,h values and only call those that changed
more bugs fixed

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

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