Description

This article is part one of a two part series that demostrates the Fixed Column UI pattern. Then in part 2, the UI is modified to follow the Tizen UX Guidelines.

This article explains how to create a Fixed Column UI using Tizen platform. This article is used to create an HTML table with fixed/frozen left column and scrollable body (other columns).

Pre-conditions

To develop a Fixed Column UI ‘jquery.js’ and ‘web-ui-fw.js’ must be included inside ‘script’ tag of HTML ‘head’.

<ul>
  <li>src="tizen-web-ui-fw/latest/js/jquery.js"</li>
  <li>src="tizen-web-ui-fw/latest/js/tizen-web-ui-fw-libs.js"</li>
  <li>src="tizen-web-ui-fw/latest/js/tizen-web-ui-fw.js" data-framework-theme="tizen-white" data-framework-viewport-scale="false"</li>
</ul>

Fixed Column HTML Page

There are three section in the HTML page:

<ul>
  <li><a>Header</a></li>
  <li><a>Content</a></li>
  <li><a>Footer</a></li>
</ul>

Create a header on the top of the page with fixed position. A table is used to horizontally position the title and cancel button.

<div data-role="header" data-position="fixed" class="ui-hdr" id="hdr">
  <table class="ui-hdr-table" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
    <tr>
      <td class="ui-hdr-title-col"><span class="ui-hdr-title-text">Top 25 Accounts </span></td>
      <td class="ui-hdr-btn-col"><div data-role="button" data-inline="true"
      class="ui-hdr-btn">Cancel</div>
      </td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</div>

In the content section, create a table with a fixed column on the left and other columns as scrollable on the right.  A table is created within the main table as a row, where all the columns are added as shown in below code

<table class="ui-table" id="ui-main">
  <tr class="ui-first_column">
    <td class="ui-first" id="col1"><div id="div1">Account</div></td>
    <td rowspan="4">
      <div class="ui-rest">
        <table>
          <tr>
            <td id="col2"><div id="ui-div2">updated on</div></td>
            <td id="col2"><div id="ui-div3">Status</div></td>
            <td id="col2"><div id="ui-div4">YTD orders</div></td>
            <td id="col2"><div id="ui-div5">Number of orders</div></td>
            <td id="col2"><div id="ui-div6">discount(%)</div></td>
            <td id="col2"><div id="ui-div7">Interest(%)</div></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td>jan</td>
            <td>active</td>
            <td>$12,371</td>
            <td>49</td>
            <td>36.00%</td>
            <td>36.00%</td>
	  </tr>
          <tr>
            <td>jan</td>
            <td>active</td>
	    <td>$14,183</td>
            <td>24</td>
	    <td>16.00%</td>
            <td>16.00%</td>
	  </tr>
          <tr>
	    <td>jan</td>
            <td>active</td>
            <td>$13,783</td>
	    <td>44</td>
            <td>36.00%</td>
            <td>36.00%</td>
          </tr>
	</table>
      </div>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr class="ui-first_column">
    <td class="ui-first">james</td>
  </tr>
  <tr class="ui-first_column">
    <td class="ui-first">agni</td>
  </tr>
  <tr class="ui-first_column">
    <td class="ui-first">ross</td>
  </tr>
</table>

Create icons in the footer as shown in screenshot. A tabbar is used to align all the icons horizontally.

<div data-role="footer" data-position="fixed" id="ui-ftr">
  <div data-role="tabbar">
    <ul>
      <li><a data-icon="call" id="ui-link1"></a></li>
      <li><a data-icon="groups" id="ui-link2">tabbar2</a></li>
      <li><a data-icon="bookmarks" id="ui-link3">tabbar3</a></li>
    </ul>
  </div>
</div>

Fixed Column CSS file

The code below is used to apply a linear-gradient to the header and footer:

#hdr{
	background-image: -webkit-gradient(
	linear,
	right top,
	left bottom,
	color-stop(0.5,  	rgb(64,64,64) ),
	color-stop(0.5,  	rgb(64,64,64) ));

}

#ui-link1,#ui-link2,#ui-link3{
	background-image: -webkit-gradient(
	linear,
	right top,
	left bottom,
	color-stop(0.5,  	rgb(64,64,64) ),
	color-stop(0.5,  	rgb(64,64,64) ));

}

The CSS to horizontally align a page header title and cancel button.

.ui-hdr-table{
	width:100%;
	table-layout: absolute;
}
.ui-hdr-btn-col {
	width:16%;
	padding: 2%;
	background-color: #585858;
	float:right;
}
.ui-hdr-btn {
	background-color: #585858;
	border-radius: 8px;
	width:100%;
	font-weight:bold;
}
.ui-hdr-title-col {
	width:60%;
}

.ui-hdr-table td {
	display: inline-block;
	overflow: hidden;
	white-space: nowrap;
        text-overflow: ellipsis;
	text-align: center;
}
.ui-hdr-title-text {
	text-align: center;
	vertical-align: middle;
	font-size:25px;
	font-weight:bold;
	color:white;
}

CSS styles can be applied to fix the left most column while the other columns remain scrollable.

table#ui-main .ui-first {
        width:200px;
        white-space: nowrap;
}
table#ui-main .ui-rest {
        overflow-x: scroll;
        overflow-y: hidden;
        background: black;
        width:520px;
}

The code below is used to set the style to fixed column and scrollable columns:

table td.ui-first{
        text-align: left;
        vertical-align: middle;
        font-size:25px;
	font-weight:bold;
	width:200px;
}

}
table .ui-rest td {
        text-align: center;
        vertical-align: middle;
        font-size:25px;
	font-weight:bold;
}
td#col1{
	height:60px;
	width:200px;
	text-align: left;
	font-size:25px;
	font-weight:bold;
	background-color:#303030;
}
td#col2{
	height:60px;
	width:104px;
	text-align: right;
        padding-right:20px;
	font-size:25px;
	font-weight:bold;
	background-color:#303030;

}
#div1{
	height:80px;
	width:200px;
}
#ui-div2,#ui-div3,#ui-div4,#ui-div5,#ui-div6,#ui-div7{
	height:80px;
	width:104px;
}
.ui-first_column{
        background-color:#282828;
}

Screenshots

A screenshot of the Fixed Column UI