JQuery Mobile Sliding Panel with nested menu/ multi-level menu

Question

I have been working on multi-level menu's or sub-menu's on my jquery mobile and generally 3rd partly jquery plugins have been deeply messing with my CSS relating to position:fixed footer and scrolling.

I looked at the plugin's here and almost all of them are complicating things for me. I was hoping I could recreate this example with some magic from the existing jquery mobile framework as seen here

Answer 1

Left-hand Panel and submenus:

Here is a fast solution just to give you an idea. It has big room for improvement, so I will update this answer whenever I do any changes.

Create Submenus as much as you want, each one with a unique id and a close button with a class . Place Submenus inside main jQM panel.

1. Submenu HTML structure

    <div class='ui-sub-panel' id='submenu1'> <div class='ui-header' data-theme='a'> <a href='#' class='ui-btn ui-btn-right ui-btn-icon-notext ui-icon-delete panel-close'>Close</a> <h1 class='ui-title'>Submenu1</h1> </div> <div class="ui-content"> <!-- submenu contents here --> </div> </div> 

2. CSS

   • Full height, width and positioned outside page.

      .ui-sub-panel { width: 100%; position: absolute; top: 0; left: -100%; min-height: 100%; max-height: none; } 

   • Open Submenu

      .ui-sub-panel-open { -moz-transform: translate3d(100%, 0, 0); -webkit-transform: translate3d(100%, 0, 0); transform: translate3d(100%, 0, 0); } 

   • Close Submenu

      .ui-sub-panel-close{ -moz-transform: translate3d(0, 0, 0); -webkit-transform: translate3d(0, 0, 0); transform: translate3d(0, 0, 0); } 

   • Animate close/open

      .ui-sub-panel-animate { -webkit-transition: -webkit-transform 500ms ease; -moz-transition: -moz-transform 500ms ease; transition: transform 500ms ease; } 

3. JS

   • Close all submenus once main jQM panel is closed

      $("#externalpanel").on("panelbeforeclose", function () { $('#submenu1, #submenu2') .addClass('ui-sub-panel-close ui-sub-panel-animate') .removeClass("ui-sub-panel-open"); }); 

   • Open first submenu

      $('.sub1').on('click', function () { $('#submenu1') .addClass('ui-sub-panel-open ui-sub-panel-animate') .removeClass("ui-sub-panel-close"); }); 

   • Open second submenu

      $('.sub2').on('click', function () { $('#submenu2') .addClass('ui-sub-panel-open ui-sub-panel-animate') .removeClass("ui-sub-panel-close"); }); 

   • Close Submenu where close button is clicked

      $('.panel-close').on('click', function () { $(this) .closest(".ui-sub-panel") .addClass('ui-sub-panel-close ui-sub-panel-animate') .removeClass("ui-sub-panel-open"); }); 

Demo ⁽¹⁾

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Update 1

Right-hand Panel and submenus:

To position panel to right side, add data-position="right" attribute to panel div. Also, in .ui-sub-panel class, change left to right .

.ui-sub-panel {
   ...
   right: -100%;
   ...
}

Demo ⁽¹⁾

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^{(1) Tested on Safari - iPhone 5 iOS 7.0.6 & iPad 2 iOS 7.1}