jOrgChart

A jQuery plugin to draw tree-like structures such as OrgCharts. (forked from https://github.com/wesnolte/jOrgChart )

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#Readme

##Overview

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jQuery OrgChart is a plugin that allows you to render structures with nested elements in a easy-to-read tree structure. To build the tree all you need is to make a single line call to the plugin and supply the HTML element Id for a nested unordered list element that is representative of the data you'd like to display.

##Expected Markup & Example Usage

To get up and running you'll need a few things.

###The JavaScript Libraries

You need to include the jQuery as well as the jOrgChart libraries. For example:

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="jquery.jOrgChart.js"></script>

###The HTML

You'll need to construct a nest unordered list that represents your node nesting. For example:

<ul id="org" style="display:none">
<li>
  Food
  <ul>
    <li>Beer</li>
    <li>Vegetables
      <ul>
        <li>Pumpkin</li>
        <li><a href="http://tquila.com" target="_blank">Aubergine</a></li>
      </ul>
    </li>
    <li>Bread</li>
    <li>Chocolate
      <ul>
        <li>Topdeck</li>
        <li>Reese's Cups</li>
      </ul>
    </li>
  </ul>
</li>
</ul>

Note that you can include any amount of HTML markup in your <li> except for other <ul> or <li> elements.

###The jQuery Call

And the cherry on the top is the usual call, often but not always on document load. You'll need to specify the Id of the list in this call. For example:

jQuery(document).ready(function() {
    $("#org").jOrgChart();
});

This call will append the markup for the OrgChart to the <body> element by default, but you can specify this as part of the options.

##Demo

You can view a demo of this here.

##Sourcecode

Source code with an example is available here.

##Configuration

There are only 3 configuration options.

chartElement - used to specify which HTML element you'd like to append the OrgChart markup to. [default='body']
depth - tells the code what depth to parse to. The default value of "-1" instructs it to parse like it's 1999. [default=-1]
chartClass - the name of the style class that is assigned to the generated markup. [default='jOrgChart']