This sample demonstrates how to display popup content outside of a popup or info window. At version 3.3 of the ArcGIS API for JavaScript you can define a Popup and specify that you do not want the popup to display when a user selects a feature on the map but the events associated with the popup will still occur. This means that you can listen to events like the Popup's 'onSelectionChange' event and retrieve the popup content for display.
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1,user-scalable=no"> <title>Popup - Sidebar</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://js.arcgis.com/3.29/dijit/themes/claro/claro.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://js.arcgis.com/3.29/esri/css/esri.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open Sans"> <style> html, body { height: 100%; width: 100%; margin: 0; padding: 0; margin: 0; font-family: "Open Sans"; } #leftPane { width: 20%; margin: 0; border: none; } #map { padding: 0; } .nav { padding: 5px 10px; border: solid 1px grey; } #header { text-align: center; height: 60px; border-bottom: solid 1px #ccc; } </style> <script src="https://js.arcgis.com/3.29/"></script> <script> require([ "dojo/ready", "dojo/on", "dojo/_base/connect", "dojo/dom", "dijit/registry", "dojo/dom-construct", "dojo/parser", "dijit/layout/BorderContainer", "dijit/layout/ContentPane", "esri/map", "esri/arcgis/utils", "esri/domUtils", "esri/dijit/Popup" ], function( ready, on, connect, dom, registry, domConstruct, parser, BorderContainer, ContentPane, Map, arcgisUtils, domUtils, Popup ) { ready(function() { parser.parse(); //setup event handlers for the next/previous buttons on(dom.byId("previous"), "click", selectPrevious); on(dom.byId("next"), "click", selectNext); //Create a map based on an ArcGIS Online web map id arcgisUtils.createMap("f7df9e05c12e4c6588a9c09831e1c898", "map") .then(function(response) { window.map = response.map; //set the popup's popupWindow property to false. This prevents the popup from displaying map.infoWindow.set("popupWindow", false); initializeSidebar(window.map); }, function(error) { console.log("Map creation failed: ", dojo.toJson(error)); }); function initializeSidebar(map) { var popup = map.infoWindow; //when the selection changes update the side panel to display the popup info for the //currently selected feature. connect.connect(popup, "onSelectionChange", function() { displayPopupContent(popup.getSelectedFeature()); }); //when the selection is cleared remove the popup content from the side panel. connect.connect(popup, "onClearFeatures", function() { //dom.byId replaces dojo.byId dom.byId("featureCount").innerHTML = "Click to select feature"; //registry.byId replaces dijit.byId registry.byId("leftPane").set("content", ""); domUtils.hide(dom.byId("pager")); }); //When features are associated with the map's info window update the sidebar with the new content. connect.connect(popup, "onSetFeatures", function() { displayPopupContent(popup.getSelectedFeature()); if (popup.features.length > 1) { dom.byId("featureCount").innerHTML = popup.features.length + " features selected"; //enable navigation if more than one feature is selected domUtils.show(dom.byId("pager")) } else { dom.byId("featureCount").innerHTML = popup.features.length + " feature selected"; domUtils.hide(dom.byId("pager")); } }); } function displayPopupContent(feature) { if (feature) { var content = feature.getContent(); registry.byId("leftPane").set("content", content); } } function selectPrevious() { window.map.infoWindow.selectPrevious(); } function selectNext() { window.map.infoWindow.selectNext(); } }); }); </script> </head> <body class="claro"> <div id="mainWindow" data-dojo-type="dijit/layout/BorderContainer" data-dojo-props="design:'headline',gutters:false" style="width:100%; height:100%;"> <div data-dojo-type="dijit/layout/BorderContainer" data-dojo-props="gutters:false" region="left" style="width: 20%;height:100%;"> <div id="leftPane" data-dojo-type="dijit/layout/ContentPane" data-dojo-props="region:'center'"></div> <div id="header" data-dojo-type="dijit/layout/ContentPane" data-dojo-props="region:'top'"> <div id="featureCount" style="margin-bottom:5px;">Click to select feature</div> <div id="pager" style="display:none;"> <a href='javascript:void(0);' id ="previous" class='nav' style="text-decoration: none;"> < Prev </a> <a href='javascript:void(0);' id="next" class='nav' style="text-decoration: none;"> Next > </a> </div> </div> </div> <div id="map" data-dojo-type="dijit/layout/ContentPane" data-dojo-props="region:'center'"></div> </div> </body> </html>