jquery.contentify

A jQuery plugin to generate a table of contents

Usage

The below code snippet shows how to create the table of contents in a container with ID toc.

$('#toc').contentify({
  title:            'Table of Contents',
  headingSelectors: ['h1', 'h2', 'h3'],
  scrollDuration:   500
});

The contentify function accepts a settings object with the following properties:

• title - The heading that will appear on top of the table of contents (default: none / empty string)
• headingSelectors - An array of selectors that should be used to identify headings. The selector at index i will be used to locate headings on the i-th level (default ['h1', 'h2', 'h3', 'h4', 'h5']).
• scrollDuration - Duration of the scrolling animation in milliseconds (default: 1000)

The title of the table of contents is wrapped in a <div> with a CSS class of contentify_title. Moreover, the indivual sections are wrapped in <ol> lists with a CSS class of contentify_i where i is the level of the section.

What Doesn't Work Yet

• Only one single selector can be specified for each level of headings. It would be nice to be able to specify an array of selectors for each level of headings.
• The CSS class names of the table of contents cannot be customized
• It is not possible to restrict the area of the document that should be scanned for headings. The whole document will be used to compile the table of contents.