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 Column-spanning Portlets?
I didn't expect that I wasn't able to Google this up quickly.

Has anyone ever seen portlets that can have some of the portlets span across columns ?

Here's to visualize the behavior I'm trying to describe.

Portlet A
Portlet B
Portlet C

BEFORE:
Drag this to the top
Portlet D
Portlet C

AFTER:
Dropping it here
Portlet A
Portlet B
Portlet D

Of course, I don't expect a flat-out source-code-attached solution from here. I'm just asking for some pointers or links to whether or not this has been done and witnessed.

I'm fine with both flavors of vanilla JavaScript or jQuery.

I might start this thing from scratch, or base it on some library, but it would be most assuring if I could know beforehand that this has been done and not just a proof of concept.
Most portlets I see out there have a DIV structure where the top-most level of DIV behaves as columns. While on the other hand, what I initially have in mind is the top-most level of DIV that are just plain rows, and within each rows is a second level of column DIVs. Yet, in a row that has a spanning portlet, there would be no column DIVs, hence, the portlet spans to the fullest width. I'm not even sure if existing libraries could handle such a structure.

Started By Terry Young on Jun 11, 2009 at 9:38:51 AM

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bod1467 on Jun 12, 2009 at 1:00:35 AM

That's somewhat like iGoogle, but I don't think they have column-spanning portlets. (At least, not what I've seen).

What about using TABLES with colspan and rowspan? ;-)

/gets coat


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