A simple file browser example built with regular-table. Also a great introduction to row_headers, and how to use them to achieve group-like and tree-like behavior. For this example, we'll want the latter.
<regular-table id="regularTable"></regular-table>regular-table will merge consecutive <th> defined in row_headers with the same content, but it will prefer rowspan to colspan, inserting empty <th> when necessary to fill-in gaps, since table-cell elements cannot overlap. Knowing this, it is easy to fine-tune header structure and behavior with empty cells. In this case, we want to modify the basic group-like row_headers layout to support tree-like asymmetric groups. Typically, when representing groups of rows via row_headers, for example a file structure like so:
- Dir_1
- Dir_2
- File_1
- File_2
- Dir_2
... one may think to implement a regular-table Virtual Data Model using a row_headers parameter like this:
[
["Dir_1"],
["Dir_1", "Dir_2"],
["Dir_1", "Dir_2", "File_1"],
["Dir_1", "File_2"]
]This will render group-like row headers, with the consecutive "Dir_1" and "Dir_2" elements merged via rowspan. The resulting headers visually indicate all content on the right-hand side belong to the directory. This is exactly what column headers do, but it is not very like a file-tree; each directory "level" will determine its respective column's minimum width, and deeply assymmetric trees will yield wide row headers.
| Dir_1 | - | |
|---|---|---|
| Dir_2 | - | |
| File_1 | ||
| File_2 | ||
Group-like row headers are nice for always keeping the entire directory path in view regardless of scroll position, but for a more tree-like like experience, we can instead replace the consecutive duplicates with "".
[
["Dir_1"],
["", "Dir_2"],
["", "", "File_1"],
["", "File_2"]
]The new consecutive "" will still merge via rowspan, excluding the first row, but regular-table will detect that a <th> lacks a rowspan, and instead merge trailing undefined/empty values via colspan to produce one long <th> for each row header group, as in the HTML below. In this tree-like layout, no content will exclusively occupy any but the last column of row_headers, and these empty columns can then be sized via CSS to create trees of any geometry, where e.g. "directory" group rows overlap the columns of their children as-in a conventional file tree.
| Dir_1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| - | Dir_2 | |
| - | File_1 | |
| File_2 | ||
Despite this long-winded explanation, the implementation in Javascript is fairly straightforward, and for our purposes, we only need create one such path for row_headers at a time.
function new_path(n, name) {
return Array(n).fill("").concat([name]);
}We can use a regular 2D Array, row oriented, for the file system listing state itself, including file metadata like size and the open/closed state of directory rows.
const COLUMNS = [["size"], ["kind"], ["modified"], ["writable"]];
const DATA = Array.from(generateDirContents());These file-metadata rows are fake, but for the purposes of an example, they are worth putting "B Movie"-level effort into making look like a "real" file system.
function new_row(type) {
const scale = Math.random() > 0.5 ? "kb" : "mb";
const size = numberFormat(Math.pow(Math.random(), 2) * 1000);
const date = dateFormat(new Date());
return [`${size} ${scale}`, type, date, true];
}For the fake file system contents themselves, we will generate directory contents on the fly as directories are opened and closed by the user.
function* generateDirContents(n = 0) {
for (let i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
yield {
path: new_path(n, `Dir_${i}`),
row: new_row("directory"),
is_open: false,
};
}
for (let i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
yield {
path: new_path(n, `File_${i}`),
row: new_row("file"),
};
}
}Open and close directory operations are applied via DATA.splice(), mutating the Array reference directly and inserting or stripping elements as needed.
function closeDir(y) {
const path = DATA[y].path;
while (y + 2 < DATA.length && DATA[y + 1].path.length > path.length) {
DATA.splice(y + 1, 1);
}
}
function openDir(y) {
const new_contents = generateDirContents(DATA[y].path.length);
DATA.splice(y + 1, 0, ...Array.from(new_contents));
}
function toggleDir(y) {
const {is_open} = DATA[y];
if (is_open) {
closeDir(y);
} else {
openDir(y);
}
DATA[y].is_open = !is_open;
}DATA needs to be transposed before we can return slices of it from our dataListener() function, because it is row-oriented and regular-table expects column-oriented data.
function transpose(m) {
return m.length === 0 ? [] : m[0].map((x, i) => m.map((x) => x[i]));
}Otherwise, this dataListener() is very similar to 2d_array.md.
function dataListener(x0, y0, x1, y1) {
return {
num_rows: DATA.length,
num_columns: DATA[0].row.length,
row_headers: DATA.slice(y0, y1).map((z) => z.path.slice()),
column_headers: COLUMNS.slice(y0, y1),
data: transpose(DATA.slice(y0, y1).map(({row}) => row.slice(x0, x1))),
};
}Directory and file icon styles applied as classes, using getMeta(), every td is mapped back to it's row in DATA.
function styleListener() {
for (const td of window.regularTable.querySelectorAll("tbody th")) {
const {y, value} = window.regularTable.getMeta(td);
const {row, is_open} = DATA[y];
const [, type] = row;
td.classList.toggle("fb-directory", !!value && type === "directory");
td.classList.toggle("fb-file", !!value && type === "file");
td.classList.toggle("fb-open", !!value && is_open);
}
}When directory rows are clicked, generate new directory contents at the td metadata's y coordinate in DATA and redraw.
// TODO `resetAutoSize()` is not documented - this is currently required to
// prevent the column size scroll memoize functionality from pinning the sizes
// of the 'blank' cells, as these columns may be re-purposed as the user expands
// or collapses the tree. But auto-sizing is not well formalized feature yet
// and this API is just a stand-in.
function mousedownListener() {
if (event.target.tagName === "TH") {
const meta = regularTable.getMeta(event.target);
if (DATA[meta.y].row[1] === "directory") {
toggleDir(meta.y);
regularTable._resetAutoSize();
regularTable.draw();
}
}
}function init() {
regularTable.setDataListener(dataListener);
regularTable.addStyleListener(styleListener);
regularTable.addEventListener("mousedown", mousedownListener);
regularTable.addEventListener("scroll", () => {
regularTable._resetAutoSize();
});
regularTable.draw();
}<script>window.addEventListener("load", () => init())</script>Icons
tbody th.fb-directory:before {
font-family: "Material Icons";
content: "folder ";
}
tbody th.fb-directory.fb-open:before {
content: "folder_open ";
}
tbody th.fb-file:before {
font-family: "Material Icons";
content: "text_snippet ";
}Basic theme
table thead, table tbody {
user-select: none;
}
td:first-of-type, head th {
text-align: right;
}Set dimensions of "tree" structure.
tbody th:empty {
min-width: 20px;
max-width: 20px;
}function numberFormat(x) {
const formatter = new Intl.NumberFormat("en-us", {
style: "decimal",
minimumFractionDigits: 2,
maximumFractionDigits: 2,
});
return formatter.format(x);
}
function dateFormat(x) {
const formatter = new Intl.DateTimeFormat("en-us", {
week: "numeric",
year: "numeric",
month: "numeric",
day: "numeric",
hour: "numeric",
minute: "numeric",
second: "numeric",
});
return formatter.format(x);
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