Feature request: Class diagram display regions

[ArnaudB88]

We use the mermaid class diagram to design database schemes since that's easy for developers and a visual representation can be auto generated through the live editor. But when the diagram becomes bigger (+30 classes), the visual representation becomes complicated because relations will cross other relations. This is because we can't choose which classes are visualized from left-to-right (because of the relationships). The result is a visual scheme in which many relationships cross each other and classes which belong together are scattered from left to right.

I would like to suggest a feature of something like 'display regions'.

• Display regions are squares which group classes together and are always displayed from left to right
• You can declare display regions in the mermaid file
• You can add classes (of a class diagram) to display regions
• (optional) you can set a background color for each display region
• (optional) give a title to a region, which is displayed at the top of the region
• Display regions can be applied to the class diagram and entity relationship diagrams

The alternative I try to do now, is to reorder the class relations, but at this point (+30 classes) it's pointless because some classes jump visually from left to right because of the may relationships between the classes.

Note: this feature request is similar to the existing subgraph functionality of a flowchart diagram.

Example of a scheme without display regions (as-is):

Example of a scheme with display regions (to-be):
(Note: the scheme should be cleaner and relationships should cross less)

[knsv]

We could use subgrapgs/clusters for this. It is possible. @ashishjain0512 What do you think? What should the syntax look like?

[IceflowRE]

Pretty sure this is a feature like namespaces or packages.
Also discussed here #4618 .

[ArnaudB88]

@IceflowRE Indeed, namespaces is almost exactly what I proposed.
Could it be possible to add styling to namespaces?

[mihaivader]

Any ETA for nested namespaces and/or packages for class diagrams ?

[skillmaker-dev]

This issue also requests the same feature #5487

[erickalmeidaptc]

Can we have this feature also added to the ERD diagrams?

[jgreywolf]

I am closing this issue, as the original request can be handled by using namespaces