ZK Component Reference/Supplementary/Coachmark

Coachmark

• Java API: Coachmark
• JavaScript API: Coachmark

• Available for ZK:
• 

[ since 9.0.0 ]

Employment/Purpose

Coachmark is used to attract users' attention to the target component and display a dialog. Once a coachmark is opened, the background mask will be displayed and the target component will be highlighted.The content of coachmark should be as relevant as possible to the context. You can use more than one coachmarks to guide users to perform a series of operations in the desired order.

Example

<zk>
	<button id="button" label="Information"></button>
	<coachmark target="button" position="before_center">
		<label>Wellcome! click here for more information!</label>
		<button style="display: block;margin: 10px auto 0" label="got it!"></button>
	</coachmark>
</zk>

Supported Browsers

This component uses CSS keyframes. Browsers that support CSS keyframes (IE10+, Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Safari) are compatible with this feature.

Open / Close the Coachmark

Both visible attribute and open/close methods allow you to open or close the Coachmark.

Properties

Target

The target component that the Coachmark will point itself to.

Example

<zk>
	<button id="button" label="button"></button>
	<coachmark target="button">
		<label>Wellcome!</label>
	</coachmark>
</zk>

Position

The positions of a coachmark(default: after_center). Here are the available options:

	start/before	center	end/after
top	before_start	before_center	before_end
bottom	after_start	after_center	after_end
left	start_before	start_center	start_after
right	end_before	end_center	end_after

Next

The next coachmark which will be opened while onTargetClick event or next() method is called.

Note: if you call next(Coachmark coachmark), the next coachmark already set will be ignored.

Methods

public void next() : Close this coachmark and Open the next which is set.

public void next(Coachmark coachmark) : Close this coachmark and Open the one you passed.(ignore the next coachmark already set)

Supported Events

Name	Event Type
onOpen	Event: OpenEvent Denotes that the user has opened or closed a component. Note: unlike onClose, this event is only a notification. The client sends this event after opening or closing the component.
onTargetClick	Event: MouseEvent Represents an event caused by a user's click on a highlighted target component.

• Inherited Supported Events: XulElement

Supported Children

*ALL

Version History

Version	Date	Content
9.0.0	Nov, 2019	ZK-4382: Provide a Coachmark component