Tocbot

Tocbot builds a table of contents (TOC) from headings in an HTML document. This is useful for documentation websites or long markdown pages because it makes them easier to navigate. This library was inspired by Tocify, the main difference is that Tocbot uses native DOM methods and avoids the jQuery & jQuery UI dependencies.

Get Started

You can use npm to install it or include the script on the page with HTML.

Download it here

Include JS

Install it with npm.

npm install --save tocbot

Include the script at the bottom of the page before the closing body tag.

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/tocbot/4.4.2/tocbot.min.js"></script>

Include CSS

CSS is used for expanding & collapsing groupings and some basic styling.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/tocbot/4.4.2/tocbot.css">

If you installed it with npm and use sass / postcss you might try importing the styles from 'node_modules', see the includePath option documentation for more info

@import 'tocbot/src/scss/tocbot-core';
@import 'tocbot/src/scss/tocbot-default-theme';

Usage

Initialize the script

tocbot.init({
  // Where to render the table of contents.
  tocSelector: '.js-toc',
  // Where to grab the headings to build the table of contents.
  contentSelector: '.js-toc-content',
  // Which headings to grab inside of the contentSelector element.
  headingSelector: 'h1, h2, h3',
});

NOTE: Make sure headings have id attributes, tocbot and your browser needs these to make hashes jump to the proper heading, some markdown libraries (like marked) already do this for you.

If content in the div has changed then trigger a refresh (optionally with new options).

tocbot.refresh();

Examples

If you'd like to add your page to this list open a pull request.

Requirements

This library uses vanilla JavaScript. It is less than 350 bytes of CSS and about 3.6Kb of JavaScript (minified and gzipped) it also has no dependencies.

This script works in all modern browsers and IE 9+.

Make sure rendered headings have id attributes, some markdown libraries (like marked) already do this. If you need to do this client side see this script.

NOTE: to exclude anchor elements from smooth scrolling, add the class no-smooth-scroll.

Fixed headers

To handle anchor links properly when you have a fixed header, I recommend using CSS similar to the following:

h1::before, h2::before, h3::before, h4::before, h5::before, h6::before {
    display: block;
    content: " ";
    height: 60px;
    margin-top: -60px;
    visibility: hidden;
}

This is better than javascript solutions since it will work when javascript is disabled.

API

Options

// Where to render the table of contents.
tocSelector: '.js-toc',
// Where to grab the headings to build the table of contents.
contentSelector: '.js-toc-content',
// Which headings to grab inside of the contentSelector element.
headingSelector: 'h1, h2, h3',
// Headings that match the ignoreSelector will be skipped.
ignoreSelector: '.js-toc-ignore',
// Main class to add to links.
linkClass: 'toc-link',
// Extra classes to add to links.
extraLinkClasses: '',
// Class to add to active links,
// the link corresponding to the top most heading on the page.
activeLinkClass: 'is-active-link',
// Main class to add to lists.
listClass: 'toc-list',
// Extra classes to add to lists.
extraListClasses: '',
// Class that gets added when a list should be collapsed.
isCollapsedClass: 'is-collapsed',
// Class that gets added when a list should be able
// to be collapsed but isn't necessarily collpased.
collapsibleClass: 'is-collapsible',
// Class to add to list items.
listItemClass: 'toc-list-item',
// How many heading levels should not be collpased.
// For example, number 6 will show everything since
// there are only 6 heading levels and number 0 will collpase them all.
// The sections that are hidden will open
// and close as you scroll to headings within them.
collapseDepth: 0,
// Smooth scrolling enabled.
scrollSmooth: true,
// Smooth scroll duration.
scrollSmoothDuration: 420,
// Callback for scroll end.
scrollEndCallback: function (e) { },
// Headings offset between the headings and the top of the document (this is meant for minor adjustments).
headingsOffset: 1,
// Timeout between events firing to make sure it's
// not too rapid (for performance reasons).
throttleTimeout: 50,
// Element to add the positionFixedClass to.
positionFixedSelector: null,
// Fixed position class to add to make sidebar fixed after scrolling
// down past the fixedSidebarOffset.
positionFixedClass: 'is-position-fixed',
// fixedSidebarOffset can be any number but by default is set
// to auto which sets the fixedSidebarOffset to the sidebar
// element's offsetTop from the top of the document on init.
fixedSidebarOffset: 'auto',
// includeHtml can be set to true to include the HTML markup from the
// heading node instead of just including the textContent.
includeHtml: false,
// onclick function to apply to all links in toc. will be called with
// the event as the first parameter, and this can be used to stop,
// propagation, prevent default or perform action
onClick: false,
// orderedList can be set to false to generate unordered lists (ul)
// instead of ordered lists (ol)
orderedList: true,
// If there is a fixed article scroll container, set to calculate titles' offset
scrollContainer: null

Methods

.init

Initialize tocbot with an options object.

tocbot.init(options)

.destroy

Destroy tocbot and remove event listeners.

tocbot.destroy()

.refresh

Refresh tocbot if the document changes and it needs to be rebuilt.

tocbot.refresh()

Roadmap

More tests
React.js support (make react support native without direct dom manipulation)

Contributing

Contributions and suggestions are welcome! Please feel free to open an issue if you run into a problem or have a feature request. I'll do my best to respond in a timely fashion.

If you want to open a pull request just fork the repo but please make sure all tests and lint pass.

Running Tests

All tests

npm run test

With debugger

You can run tests through node-inspector.

For now, you may need to use node v6 or lower...

nvm use 6

Once you're on node v6 or lower:

npm install node-inspector

Now that node-inspector is installed, you can run the tests!

npm run test:debug

Steps to publish

Push a branch and open a pull request
run npm version <patch|minor|major>
Update readme.md with notes
Merge the pull request
commit dist/
run npm publish
make release on github

License

MIT

mashirozx / tocbot