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Tag Cloud

A tag cloud is a way to display tags that shows the relative importance of them, based on the number of times a tag is used.

Directionality:

Classes

  • lotusTagCloud - goes on a containing div
  • lotusF5, lotusF4, lotusF3, lotusF2, lotusF1 - go on individual links, to set importance of links, with F5 being most important.

Basic Implementation

A tag cloud is created as a list of links. It is surrounded by a div assigned the class of lotusTagCloud.

Examples

Sample HTML

CSS (tagCloud.css)

Theme CSS (tagCloudTheme.css)

The lotusTagCloud goes on a div instead of the unordered list to allow the component to include a dojo slider to control how many links are showing.

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