jQuery UI portlets

Question

I am trying to make panels which are draggable, resizable, collapsible, closable and can be maximised and minimized as well as follows.

I also want a scroll for the portlet content, if resizing overflows the content. When I set overflow:auto the scroll comes even if the content is not overflowing.

.portlet {
    position: absolute;
    overflow:auto !important;
}

you can have look over my code and demo here panel code
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance!!

Answer 1

I dug around and found this Tutorial-Create a Windows-like Interface with jQuery UI

here is the jsFiddle and the code-

  var _init = $.ui.dialog.prototype._init;
    $.ui.dialog.prototype._init = function() {
        _init.apply(this, arguments);

        var dialog_element = this;
        var dialog_id = this.uiDialogTitlebar.next().attr('id');

        this.uiDialogTitlebar.append('<a href="#" id="' + dialog_id + 
        '-minbutton" class="ui-dialog-titlebar-minimize ui-corner-all">'+
        '<span class="ui-icon ui-icon-minusthick"></span></a>');

        $('#dialog_window_minimized_container').append(
            '<div class="dialog_window_minimized ui-widget ui-state-default ui-corner-all" id="' + 
            dialog_id + '_minimized">' + this.uiDialogTitlebar.find('.ui-dialog-title').text() + 
            '<span class="ui-icon ui-icon-newwin"></div>');

        $('#' + dialog_id + '-minbutton').hover(function() {
            $(this).addClass('ui-state-hover');
        }, function() {
            $(this).removeClass('ui-state-hover');
        }).click(function() {
            dialog_element.close();
            $('#' + dialog_id + '_minimized').show();
        });

        $('#' + dialog_id + '_minimized').click(function() {
            $(this).hide();
            dialog_element.open();
        });
    };

        $(document).ready(function() {
            $('#create_button').button().click(function() {
                var create_dialog = $('#dialog_window_1');
                var create_button = $(this);
                if( create_dialog.dialog('isOpen') ) {
                    create_button.button('option', 'label', 'Create a new Window');
                    create_dialog.dialog('close');
                } else {
                    create_button.button('option', 'label', 'Close Window');
                    create_dialog.dialog('open');
                }
            });

            $('#dialog_window_1').dialog({
                width: 'auto',
                height: 'auto',
                autoOpen : false,
                buttons: [
                    {
                        text: 'Create',
                        click: function() {
                            var div_count = $('.dialog_window').length + 1;
                            var div_id = 'dialog_window_' + div_count;
                            var div_title = $('#new_window_title').val();
                            var div_content = $('#new_window_content').val();
                            var buttons = new Array();
                            if( $('#alertbutton').is(':checked') ) {
                                buttons.push({
                                    text: 'ALERT',
                                    click: function() {
                                        alert('ALERTING from Dialog Widnow: ' + div_title);
                                    }
                                });
                            }

                            if( $('#closebutton').is(':checked') ) {
                                buttons.push({
                                    text: 'CLOSE',
                                    click: function() {
                                        $('#' + div_id).dialog('close');
                                    }
                                });
                            }

                            $('body').append('<div class="dialog_window" id="' + div_id + '">' + div_content + '</div>');

                            var dialog = $('#' + div_id).dialog({
                                width: 'auto',
                                height: 'auto',
                                title : div_title,
                                autoOpen : true,
                                buttons: buttons
                            });
                        }
                    }
                ]
            });
            $('#buttonlist').buttonset();
        });`