grapesjs-rulers

Grapesjs Rulers

Add rulers and guides for grapesjs designer mode

DEMO

HTML

<link href="https://unpkg.com/grapesjs/dist/css/grapes.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<link href="https://unpkg.com/grapesjs-rulers/dist/grapesjs-rulers.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="https://unpkg.com/grapesjs"></script>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/grapesjs-rulers"></script>

<div id="gjs"></div>

JS

const editor = grapesjs.init({
	container: '#gjs',
  height: '100%',
  fromElement: true,
  storageManager: false,
  plugins: ['grapesjs-rulers'],
});

CSS

body, html {
  margin: 0;
  height: 100%;
}

Summary

• Plugin name: grapesjs-rulers
• Commands
  • get-rulers-constructor
  • get-rulers - get rulers object
  • ruler-visibility - toggle ruler visibility
  • guides-visibility - toggle guides visibility
  • clear-guides
  • get-guides - get array of guides
  • set-guides - set guides from array e.g. editor.runCommand('set-guides', {guides: [...]})
  • set-zoom - sets zoom and updates rulers e.g. editor.runCommand('set-zoom', {zoom: 90})
  • destroy-ruler

Options

Option	Description	Default
dragMode	Dragmode to set when rulers are toggled	translate
rulerHeight	Ruler thickness	15
canvasZoom	Zoom out the canvas	94
rulerOpts	Options for ruler object	{}

Download

• CDN
  • https://unpkg.com/grapesjs-rulers
• NPM
  • npm i grapesjs-rulers
• GIT
  • git clone https://github.com/Ju99ernaut/grapesjs-rulers.git

Usage

Directly in the browser

<link href="https://unpkg.com/grapesjs/dist/css/grapes.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<link href="https://unpkg.com/grapesjs-rulers/dist/grapesjs-rulers.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="https://unpkg.com/grapesjs"></script>
<script src="path/to/grapesjs-rulers.min.js"></script>

<div id="gjs"></div>

<script type="text/javascript">
  var editor = grapesjs.init({
      container: '#gjs',
      // ...
      plugins: ['grapesjs-rulers'],
      pluginsOpts: {
        'grapesjs-rulers': { /* options */ }
      }
  });
</script>

Modern javascript

import grapesjs from 'grapesjs';
import plugin from 'grapesjs-rulers';
import 'grapesjs/dist/css/grapes.min.css';
import 'grapesjs-rulers/dist/grapesjs-rulers.min.css'

const editor = grapesjs.init({
  container : '#gjs',
  // ...
  plugins: [plugin],
  pluginsOpts: {
    [plugin]: { /* options */ }
  }
  // or
  plugins: [
    editor => plugin(editor, { /* options */ }),
  ],
});

Adding rulers toggle as panel button example

const pn = editor.Panels;
const panelViews = pn.addPanel({
  id: 'options'
});
panelViews.get('buttons').add([{
  attributes: {
    title: 'Toggle Rulers'
  },
  context: 'toggle-rulers', //prevents rulers from being toggled when another views-panel button is clicked 
  label: `<svg width="18" viewBox="0 0 16 16"><path d="M0 8a.5.5 0 0 1 .5-.5h15a.5.5 0 0 1 0 1H.5A.5.5 0 0 1 0 8z"/><path d="M4 3h8a1 1 0 0 1 1 1v2.5h1V4a2 2 0 0 0-2-2H4a2 2 0 0 0-2 2v2.5h1V4a1 1 0 0 1 1-1zM3 9.5H2V12a2 2 0 0 0 2 2h8a2 2 0 0 0 2-2V9.5h-1V12a1 1 0 0 1-1 1H4a1 1 0 0 1-1-1V9.5z"/></svg>`,
  command: 'ruler-visibility',
  id: 'ruler-visibility'
}]);

Disable rulers on preview

editor.on('run:preview', () => editor.stopCommand('ruler-visibility'));

Development

Clone the repository

$ git clone https://github.com/Ju99ernaut/grapesjs-rulers.git
$ cd grapesjs-rulers

Install dependencies

$ npm i

Build css

$ npm run build:css

Start the dev server

$ npm start

Build the source

$ npm run build

License

MIT