jQuery Growl

Growl is a jQuery plugin designed to provide informative messages in the browser.

Installation

To install copy the javascripts, and stylesheets directories into your project and add the following snippet to the header:

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.0.2/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="javascript/jquery.growl.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="stylesheets/jquery.growl.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

This plugin is also registered under http://bower.io/ to simplify integration. Try:

npm install -g bower
bower install growl

Gemfile

+ source 'https://rails-assets.org'
...
+ gem 'rails-assets-growl'

application.css

/*
 ...
 *= require growl
 ...
*/

application.js

//= require jquery
...
//= require growl

Examples

Growling is easy:

<script type="text/javascript">
  $.growl({ title: "Growl", message: "The kitten is awake!" });
  $.growl.error({ message: "The kitten is attacking!" });
  $.growl.notice({ message: "The kitten is cute!" });
  $.growl.warning({ message: "The kitten is ugly!" });
</script>

Advanced

Growl also supports some customization through the following options:

• static: (true / false) enable or disable the auto-dismiss functionality (default: false)
• size: ('small' / 'medium' / 'large') customize the sizing of the alerts (default: 'medium')
• style: ('default' / 'error' / 'notice' / 'warning') customize the styling of the alerts (default: 'default')
• location: ('tl' / 'tr' / 'bl' / 'br' / 'tc' / 'bc') customize the position of the growl alerts (default: 'tr')

Status

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2010 - 2015 Kevin Sylvestre. See LICENSE for details.