ion-drawer-vertical – A vertical slide out panel (toggle panel) for Ionic

For a current Ionic project I’m working on I needed a vertical slide out panel (toggle panel) to store in some content that may be hidden by the user. As I couldn’t immediately find such a component in Ionic itself I decided to create one myself: ion-drawer-vertical (source available on GitHub). The result is a set of directives one can use. The directives also ships with a necessary controller and a delegate to allow one to manipulate the drawer from any scope. Both top and bottom drawers are supported.

Do note that this is an early release of ion-drawer-vertical. Whilst the basics work, many things are still missing (Enforce the proper elements being present, autoclose when scrolling in a list, etc. to name a few).

Installation

Installation is possible via bower:

bower install ion-drawer-vertical

Usage

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1. Refer to the ionic.contrib.drawer.vertical.js and ionic.contrib.drawer.vertical.css files from within your HTML file:

   <link href="src/ionic.contrib.drawer.vertical.css" rel="stylesheet">
   	<script src="src/ionic.contrib.drawer.vertical.js"></script>
   

2. Inject ionic.contrib.drawer.vertical as a dependency into your Angular app:

   angular.module('app', [
           'ionic',
           'ionic.contrib.drawer.vertical'
       ])
   

3. Add a <ion-drawer-vertical-wrapper> element to your document. Inside it, put a <ion-drawer-vertical-content> and an optional <ion-drawer-vertical-handle> element.

Configuration

Adjust the direction (possible values: down [default] and up) and state (possible values: opened [default] and closed) attributes of the <ion-drawer-vertical-wrapper> element if needed.

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If any headers and/or footers are present, also set the proper has-* classes (such as has-header or has-footer) on the <ion-drawer-vertical-wrapper> element.

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[UPDATE: Added in ~1.4.0 (released after this blogpost)] When having a scrollable element (viz. ion-scroll or ion-content[scroll="true"]) it’s possible to make the drawer automagically close when scrolling the content in the direction of the drawer itself. Enable it by setting autoclose-on-scroll on the <ion-drawer-vertical-wrapper> element.

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Events and Functions

ion-drawer-vertical automatically binds drag events to the <ion-drawer-vertical-handle> element if it’s present. Dragging said element up/down will make the drawer follow its moves. Upon releasing the handle, the drawer will either revert to its original state, or to the opposite one (e.g. open will become closed) when having dragged far enough (over 33% of the height of the panel).

ion-drawer-vertical also ships with a delegate $ionDrawerVerticalDelegate. The methods openDrawer(), closeDrawer(), toggleDrawer(), and getState() are exposed via this delegate.

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When cleverly combining getState() with ngIf one can achieve this:

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Note that when calling methods on the delegate it will control all ion-drawer-vertical instances. To target one single / a specific instance use the $getByHandle method along with the delegate-handle attribute:

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