Feature Discovery

Materialize is a modern responsive CSS framework based on Material Design by Google.

Provide value and encourage return visits by introducing users to new features and functionality at contextually relevant moments.

Feature discovery prompts have more impact when they are presented to the right users at contextually relevant moments. When presented to the wrong user at the wrong time, they can be intrusive and annoying.

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Provide value and encourage return visits by introducing users to new features and functionality at contextually relevant moments.

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<!-- Element Showed -->
<a id="menu" class="waves-effect waves-light btn btn-floating" ><i class="material-icons">menu</i></a>
<!-- Tap Target Structure -->
<div class="tap-target" data-target="menu">
  <div class="tap-target-content">
    <h5>Title</h5>
    <p>A bunch of text</p>
  </div>
</div>

            
          

Initialization

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  document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() {
    var elems = document.querySelectorAll('.tap-target');
    var instances = M.TapTarget.init(elems, {
      // specify options here
    });
  });
            
          

Options

Name Type Default Description
onOpen Function null Callback function called when Tap Target is opened.
onClose Function null Callback function called when Tap Target is closed.

Methods

All the methods are called on the plugin instance. You can get the plugin instance like this:

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  var instance = M.TapTarget.getInstance(elem);
              
            
.open();

Open Tap Target


  instance.next();
  instance.next(3); // Move next n times.
          
.close();

Close Tap Target


  instance.close();
          
.destroy();

Destroy plugin instance and teardown


  instance.destroy();
          

Properties

Name Type Description
el Element The DOM element the plugin was initialized with.
options Object The options the instance was initialized with.
isOpen Boolean If the tap target is open.