Data driven feature tour.


Keywords
browser
License
MIT
Install
npm install guide-me@3.0.1

Documentation

tour

Data driven feature tour.

Installation

Install with npm:

$ npm install guide-me

Live demo is here

API

Tour.play(index)

Call `play to start the tour.

    var tour = require('guide-me');
    tour('#tour-id').play();

The optional index parameter allows to specify the step from which tour should be started. If play is called multiple times without index parameter, it restarts itself from the step following the one that has been closed.

Tour is driven by HTML content. Elements with data-tour-content attribute are considered tour steps. Each step describes DOM element with data-tour-id attribute.

<template id='tour-id'>
  <span data-tour-content="button">This is how we start the tour.</span>
  <div data-tour-content="image">
    <p>We have nice picture here.</p>
    <p><em>Seen enough?</em></p>
  </div>
  <div data-tour-content="text">
    And that is the last element...
  </div>
</template>

The above example assumes that somewhere else on the page we have the corresponsing elements. The order of those does not matter, and they can be in any part of DOM tree.

<img data-tour-id="image" src='cute-cats.png'>
<p data-tour-id="text">
  Id eros vidit pri...
</p>
<input data-tour-id="button" type="submit" value="Important button"></input>

Please note that data-tour-content can also contain CSS query expression to locate the element associated with the step.

<div id='first'>
  <img class="image" src='cute-cats.png'>
</div>

<!-- This step refers to its element by CSS query -->
<span data-tour-content="#first .image">This is how we start the tour.</span>

Default position of step popover is bottom. It can be changed by specifying data-position attribute.

<span data-tour-content="#abc" data-position='left'>
  This step is displayed to the left of item with abc id.
</span>

Steps can optionally specify 'data-delay' (in millis). The sequence of events is as follows:

  • previous step is hidden - hide event is dispatched
  • next event is dispatched
  • tour waits for delay milliseconds - by default delay is 0
  • next step is displayed
  • show event is dispatched
<span data-tour-content="#abc" data-delay="250">
  Tour will wait 250ms before displaying this step.
</span>

Tour.react(delay)

Temporarily hides and redisplays the active step after a delay. Can be used to adjust the tour popover whenever user action changes the screen layout. If delay parameter is not specified, the value of data- delay for the active step is used.

Tour.hideStep()

Hidess active tour step.

Tour.showStep()

Shows active tour step.

Events

  • begin - before the tour start
  • end - after the tour ends
  • next(index) - when next step is about to be displayed
  • show(index) - when step popup is displayed
  • hide(index) - when step popup is hidden

Styling

Tour specific CSS can be used to style tours popovers and to mark the active steps.

  • tour-popover is used for tour popovers
  • tour-active-step marks the element associated with current active step
  • tour-overlay allows changing the overlay defaults

Custom labels

To change 'Next' and 'Close' labels in the Tour windows pass options.labels parameter to Tour constructor

var customLabels = {
  cancel: 'Got it!',
  ok: 'Go on...'
};
var tour = require('tour')(null, { labels: customLabels });

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Damian Krzeminski

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.