A page preview panel for search results?

Joseph Lam asked on April 1, 2015 22:43

The current Search result is pretty basic (v8.2). Is there a way to add a hover panel to show a live preview of the page/documents? Has anyone done anything like this and welling to demo?

Recent Answers


Brenden Kehren answered on April 1, 2015 23:49

That would all be front end development with javascript and such. You can get the page urls and create a popup in an iframe or a modal. Nothing specific that Kentico would restrict.

0 votesVote for this answer Mark as a Correct answer

Joseph Lam answered on April 2, 2015 01:13

Thanks Brenden. The problem with using iframe is sizing. With responsive CSS, the page would render the preview in mobile view. Is there any way to get around that? I am really interested in seeing what other Kentico users have done to jazz the search result page up, a bit different from out of the box?

0 votesVote for this answer Mark as a Correct answer

Brenden Kehren answered on April 2, 2015 02:53

As I mentioned, it's really not a Kentico restriction or limitation or issue. It's all in the design, let the designer think and sketch it up. Let the front end dev create the markup and then the Kentico developer implement it.

There are several google results which talk about this type of link peek setup. The first one on stackoverflow is pretty good. It references a site called Link Peek in which you can implement their plug-in in 15 minutes or they will help. Seems like a viable option to me.

1 votesVote for this answer Mark as a Correct answer

   Please, sign in to be able to submit a new answer.