Timeline Design using CSS and Jquery
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Monday, June 30, 2014

Timeline Design using CSS and Jquery

Timeline design is the current web trend that visualizes the data in an interesting way. Today I want to discuss about how to design a timeline in a simple way with JSON data feed , that using CSS pseudo elements such as :before and :after. Pseudo elements are used to apply special effects to selectors. This post is a combination of my previous post, please take a quick look at this demo and try demo script with your WAMP server.

Timeline Design CSS and Jquery


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The ::before selector inserts content before the content of the selected element(s).

CSS Code
#updates
{
position:relative;
padding:20px 0px 20px 0px;
}
#updates:before
{
content: '';
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
bottom: 0px;
width: 5px;
background: #999999 ;
}
.timeline_square
{
width:12px;
height:12px;
display:block;
position: absolute;
left:-4px;
border-top:3px solid #e8eaed;
border-bottom:3px solid #e8eaed;
margin-top:-8px;
}

Status Update HTML Code
Check my previous postStatus Message Design with CSS
<div class="stbody">
<span class="timeline_square color1"></span>
<div class="stimg"><img src="profile.jpg" /></div>
<div class="sttext">
<span class="stdelete" title="Delete">X</span>
<b>Srinivas Tamada</b><br/>
9lessons Programming Blog
<div class="sttime">10 seconds aga.</div>
<div class="stexpand">
//Youtube IFrame Code
</div>
</div></div>

users.json
This contains Users data feed, you can generate this using PHP code.
{
"Messages":[
{
"user":"Srinivas",
"message":"9lessons Programming Blog http://www.9lessons.info . ",
"avatar":"srinivas.jpg",
"embed":"",
"time":"16 seconds ago"
},
{
"user":"Arun",
"message":"Everything is possible. ",
"avatar":"arun.jpg",
"embed":"",
"time":"18 seconds ago"
},
{
"user":"Joker",
"message":"If you are good at something, never do it for free",
"avatar":"joker.png",
"embed":"<iframe height='315' src='//www.youtube.com/embed/FalHdi2DkEg' width='560'></iframe>",
"time":"28 seconds ago"
},
..............
..............
..............
]
}

index.html
Contains Jquery and JavaScript code, here $.getJSON parse the JSON data object.
<script src="js/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="js/jquery.linkify.min.js"></script>
<script src="js/jquery.livequery.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function()
{

//Formatting the text that contains URLs (text to link)
$(".sttext").livequery(function ()
{
$(this).linkify({ target: "_blank"});
});

//Parsing JSON object. 
$.getJSON("users.json", function(data)
{
var totalCount=5;
var jsondata='';
$.each(data.Messages, function(i, M)
{
//Generating random numbers for different dot colors 
var num = Math.ceil(Math.random() * totalCount );
jsondata +='<div class="stbody">'
                +'<span class="timeline_square color'+num+'"></span>'
                +'<div class="stimg"><img src="'+M.avatar+'" /></div>'
                +'<div class="sttext"><span class="stdelete">X</span>'
                +'<b>'+M.user +'</b><br/>'
                +M.message+'<div class="sttime">'+M.time
                +'</div><div class="stexpand">'+M.embed+'</div></div></div>';
});
$(jsondata).appendTo("#updates");
});

//Delete record
$('body').on("click",".stdelete",function()
{
var A=$(this).parent().parent();
A.addClass("effectHinge");
A.delay(500).fadeOut("slow",function(){
$(this).remove();
});
});


});
</script>
//HTML Code
<div id="updates"></div>

Deleting record animation effect, please check my previous post CSS3 Animation Effects with Keyframes

CSS code
Random colors for timeline square points.
.color1
{
background-color:#f37160
}
.color2
{
background-color:#50b848
}
.color3
{
background-color:#f39c12
}
.color4
{
background-color:#0073b7
}
.color5
{
background-color:#00acd6
}
.effectHinge
{
animation:hinge 1s;
-webkit-animation:hinge 1s; /* Safari and Chrome */
}
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19 comments:

  1. Flop back effect is a awesome idea, Thanks for Sharing a worth timeline script.

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  2. nice idea sir! awsome pulling json data ! into the stream ! great

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  3. another informative article thank you

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  4. Very awsome, I like your website, very rich of knowledge. We can always find new things to discover. Congratulation Man. Thank you!

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  5. Super concept and nice effect

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  6. simple and great work..thanks for sharing..

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  7. Thank you Srinivas Tamada. Usefull, clear explanation, beautifull, flexible and effective (just as we are used too with 9lessons.info ;-)

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  8. How can I reduce the left-margin space of my images. Because after i had already aligned the image position to the left, the mages are still a little not in sraight line with the sentenses margin. please check the photo
    http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JyxuqYTVqS0/U_YNcInyAhI/AAAAAAAAAa4/fnnH5vOl38M/s1600/Ilustration.png

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  9. @Srinivas Tamada

    I mean something to do with CSS definition to adjust how images are positioned (I need a CSS code. something that may look like this code. .imagePositon { margin-left: -0.5em; }

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  10. I have done it myself. I found this code in my HTML
    .post-body img {
    max-width:640px;
    max-height:auto;
    padding: 8px;
    }

    that i used a long time ago to automatically make define the image px to 640. The padding was set to 8px , so i've changed it to 0px.

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  11. Thanks Srinivas Tamada for your this post which is very useful for all web developers .

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  12. Thanks Mr. Tamada but i have a problem , i cant load users.json so i decided to use php. And what should i do if i want to add some post to timeline like twter ?

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  13. how do i retrieve data from mysql table and put to jason and use in this script?

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