jQuery Mobile - External Panel

Description

External panels are used to display the content outside the page by setting the id to href of the panel.

Example

Following example describes the use of external panel in the jQuery Mobile framework.

Live Demo 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
   <head>
      <title>External Panel</title>
      <meta name = "viewport" content = "width = device-width, initial-scale = 1">
      <link rel = "stylesheet" href = "https://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.4.5/jquery.mobile-1.4.5.min.css">
      <script src = "https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.3.min.js"></script>
      <script src = "https://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.4.5/jquery.mobile-1.4.5.min.js"></script>
   </head>

   <body>
      <div data-role = "page" id = "page1">
         <div data-role = "panel" id = "overlay_panel" data-display = "overlay">
            <h2>This is Overlay Panel</h2>
            <p>You can close this panel by pressing the Esc key or by swiping or 
            clicking outside the panel.</p>
            <a href = "#page1" data-rel = "close" class = "ui-btn ui-btn-inline ui-btn-a 
               ui-icon-delete ui-btn-icon-left">Close Panel</a>
         </div>
         
         <div data-role = "panel" id = "reveal_panel" data-display = "reveal">
            <h2>Reveal Panel</h2>
            <p>You can close this panel by pressing the Esc key or by swiping or 
            clicking outside the panel.</p>
            <a href = "#page1" data-rel = "close" class = "ui-btn ui-btn-inline ui-btn-a 
               ui-icon-delete ui-btn-icon-left">Close Panel</a>
         </div>
         
         <div data-role = "panel" id = "push_panel" data-display = "push">
            <h2>Push Panel</h2>
            <p>You can close this panel by pressing the Esc key or by swiping or 
            clicking outside the panel.</p>
            <a href = "#page1" data-rel = "close" class = "ui-btn ui-btn-inline ui-btn-a 
               ui-icon-delete ui-btn-icon-left">Close Panel</a>
         </div>
         
         <div data-role = "header">
            <h2>Header</h2>
         </div>
         
         <div data-role = "main" class = "ui-content">
            <p>Click the below buttons to open the Panel with different display modes.</p>
            <a href = "#overlay_panel" class = "ui-btn ui-btn-inline ui-shadow">This is Overlay Panel</a>
            <a href = "#reveal_panel" class = "ui-btn ui-btn-inline ui-shadow">This is Reveal Panel</a>
            <a href = "#push_panel" class = "ui-btn ui-btn-inline ui-shadow">This is Push Panel</a>
         </div>
         
         <div data-role = "footer">
            <h2>Footer</h2>
         </div>
      </div>
   </body>
</html>

Output

Let's carry out the following steps to see how the above code works −

  • Save the above html code as jqm_external_panels.html file in your server root folder.

  • Open this HTML file as http://localhost/jqm_external_panels.html and the following output will be displayed.

jquery_mobile_widgets.htm
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