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Asked: 2026-05-25T16:37:46+00:00

I’ve been hunting around for some recomendations for building some customisable widgets for a

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I’ve been hunting around for some recomendations for building some customisable widgets for a project I’m working on. It’s basically a dashboard for users. This is a common requirement, but I’d like it be customisable like the bbc.co.uk homepage. Users can close / edit or minimise the blocks.

I’ve seen things like dropthings and a few other examples, but I’m looking for something for MVC3, using JQUERY and as simple and staight forward an implementation as possible (read = I’m not an advanced coder!).

Any updated information would be great.

Thanks for your help fellow devs.

Phil.

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you’re willing to license a commercial libary, ExtJS has a set of built in widgets that handles this very nicely. Here’s the demo link:

    http://dev.sencha.com/deploy/ext-4.0.2a/examples/portal/portal.html

    I’ve been looking for a free alternative for a project of my own, and I haven’t found one that strikes me as suitably robust and well maintained. Which is why commercial alternatives exist, of course. There’s nothing I’ve seen that’s built into MVC3, but it should be easy to do so.

    This post:

    http://webdeveloperplus.com/jquery/saving-state-for-collapsible-drag-drop-panels/

    Shows how to do drag and drop panels with JQuery that are collapsible and have some database state saving. I’ve modified this in other projects to work with MVC 3, and it works quite well with minimal code.

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