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Dev tools · January 2, 2025

Orbit Composer – a CSS tool for creating any kind of circular interface

Orbit CSS reached its V.1.0.0 and it is finally stable. Hope you find it useful and easy to use. In the doc site (https://zumerlab.github.io/orbit-docs/) you can play with a multilevel piemenu, and explore potencial use cases covered in examples: - Progress bars - Charts (e.g., pie charts, multi-level pies, sunburst charts) - Gauges - Knobs - Pie menus - Watch faces - Sci-fi art - Chemical structures - Calendars - Dashboards - Mandalas

Orbit Composer – a CSS tool for creating any kind of circular interface launched on January 2, 2025 with 6 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

What it does

💫 Orbit is a framework designed for building any kind of radial UI. - zumerlab/orbit

Orbit arranges HTML elements around a center. Use it to build radial menus, charts, gauges and other circular interfaces. CSS controls geometry and appearance. A small JavaScript runtime updates the layout and draws arcs when elements, styles or values change. Orbit works with plain HTML, React, Vue and Svelte. import '@zumer/orbit/style' import '@zumer/orbit' For a plain HTML page, load the files from a CDN as shown below. Save this as index.html and open it in a browser. It loads Orbit from the CDN and draws a ring at 72%. <!doctype html > < html lang =" en " > < head > < meta charset =" utf-8 " > < meta name =" viewport " content =" width=device-width, initial-scale=1 " > < title > Orbit…from github.com

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