Friday, September 15, 2017

ion-affix: Sticky headers for Ionic framework

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Inspired by Collin Donahue-Oponski initial idea shown in this gist and the fact that there was no implementation available for the current Ionic framework to make certain list headers sticky, I gave it a shot and created the small directive ion-affix.

Once installed via
npm install --save ion-affix
it has to be included in your app.module.ts:

To make any ion-list-header, ion-item-divider or ion-item (within ion-card) sticky you simply apply the ion-affix directive to it and pass a reference to the parent ion-content to it:


Demo:

6 comments:

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    3. Overall, the ion-affix implementation is a useful example of improving navigation and readability in list-heavy mobile interfaces. The combination of Ionic and Angular concepts provides a practical basis for experimenting with application UI features, and developers looking for project-oriented practice can explore Angular Projects for further implementation ideas.

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  3. Very nice, thank you !
    I saw you just update it for RxJS 6, but it is still for ionic 3.9.x.
    Do you plan to adapt it for ionic 4 beta ?

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