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Rearranging js to accommodate more flexibility

How can I make this js affect only the child elements of the original hovered element without giving all of the individual .g_scroll or .left/.right tags id's?
function loopRight(){
$('.g_scroll').stop().animate({scrollLeft:'+=20'}, 'fast', 'linear', loopRight);
}
function loopLeft(){
$('.g_scroll').stop().animate({scrollLeft:'-=20'}, 'fast', 'linear', loopLeft);
}
function stop(){
$('.g_scroll').stop();
}
$('#right').hover(function () {
loopRight().children();
},function () {
stop();
});
$('#left').hover(function () {
loopLeft();
},function () {
stop();
});
JSfiddle for (confusing, but necessary) html structure: https://jsfiddle.net/6rbn18cL/
To demonstrate how it would have to be renamed: https://jsfiddle.net/z9u3azqy/

So here, I "merged" both arrow handlers.
Then, there is a calculation needed to determine the "scroll" speed, based on width to be scrolled, which may no always be 100% of the element's width.
This script allows you to easily determine a speed for 100% scrolling.
Then, it calculates the speed if there is already a distance scrolled.
$(document).ready(function(){
function moveit(arrow){
// Adjust you delay here
var delay = 2000; // delay to scroll 100%
var animationDelay;
var slider = arrow.siblings(".g_scroll");
var distance = slider.width();
var scrolled = slider.scrollLeft()+1; // +1 is to avoid infinity in the math below
if(arrow.hasClass("scroller_l")){
distance = -distance;
animationDelay = -distance * (-distance/delay)*(-distance+scrolled);
}else{
animationDelay = distance * (distance/delay)*(distance-scrolled);
}
slider.stop().animate({scrollLeft:distance}, animationDelay, 'linear');
}
function stop(arrow){
arrow.siblings(".g_scroll").stop();
}
$('.scroller_l, .scroller_r').hover(function(){
moveit($(this));
},function() {
stop($(this));
});
}); // ready
CodePen
--First answer--
First, you can't use the same id more than once.
So I removed id="left" and id="right" from your HTML.
Now the trick is to pass which arrow is hovered to your functions, using $(this).
And find the .g_scroll element which is a sibling of it.
$(document).ready(function(){
function loopRight(arrow){
arrow.siblings(".g_scroll").stop().animate({scrollLeft:'+=20'}, 'fast', 'linear', loopRight);
}
function loopLeft(arrow){
arrow.siblings(".g_scroll").stop().animate({scrollLeft:'-=20'}, 'fast', 'linear', loopLeft);
}
function stop(arrow){
arrow.siblings(".g_scroll").stop();
}
$('.scroller_r').hover(function(){
loopRight($(this));
},function() {
stop($(this));
});
$('.scroller_l').hover(function(){
loopLeft($(this));
},function() {
stop($(this));
});
});
CodePen

You can pass the event object and find the proper container from there.
$('.scroller_l').hover(loopRight, stop);
$('.scroller_r').hover(loopLeft, stop);
This is done automatically if you pass functions as parameters like the above.
To find the scrolling container dynamically for each instance you can use the classes to find the container relative to the current target:
var el = $(ev.currentTarget),
parent = el.closest('.country_holder'),
container = parent.find('.g_scroll');
See a working example here.
At this point you can ask yourself whether loopRight and loopLeft can be combined in one function. The only difference is the '-=20' and '+=20'.
With polymorphism you can refactor this even further.

Infinite scrolling div glitching with images

I'm currently using the following javascript as shown below.
It's working well when I place just text within the div .image_scroll_3 but as soon as I insert images the scroll glitches and won't move past the top of the image.
Any advice would be much appreciated
JS
<script>
(function($, undefined) {
$.fn.loopScroll = function(p_options) {
var options = $.extend({
direction: "upwards",
speed: 60
}, p_options);
return this.each(function() {
var obj = $(this).find(".image_scroll_2");
var text_height = obj.find(".image_scroll_3").height();
var start_y, end_y;
if (options.direction == "downwards") {
start_y = -text_height;
end_y = 0;
} else if (options.direction == "upwards") {
start_y = 0;
end_y = -text_height;
}
var animate = function() {
// setup animation of specified block "obj"
// calculate distance of animation
var distance = Math.abs(end_y - parseInt(obj.css("top")));
//alert("animate " + obj.css("top") + "-> " + end_y + " " + distance);
//duration will be distance / speed
obj.animate(
{ top: end_y }, //scroll upwards
1500 * distance / options.speed,
"linear",
function() {
// scroll to start position
obj.css("top", start_y);
animate();
}
);
};
obj.find(".image_scroll_3").clone().appendTo(obj);
$(this).on("mouseout", function() {
obj.stop();
}).on("mouseout", function() {
animate(); // resume animation
});
obj.css("top", start_y);
animate(); // start animation
});
};
}(jQuery));
$("#example4").loopScroll({ speed: 700 });
</script>

I think the problem is that your text_height is calculated before the images are actually loaded inside your .image_scroll_3 elements. So you'll need to wait for the images to load.
Put your loopScroll call inside a $(window).load like so:
$(window).load(function(){
$('#example4').loopScroll({speed:700});
});
That massive glitch should now be gone as the fix above should have helped mitigate it.
However, there is still some unwanted jank / stutter (don't want to use the word glitch again, lets keep it reserved for the initial problem) in movement of all images if you notice and I am guessing that is probably because we are animating the whole thing too fast. Passing in speed like 100 or 200 resolves that but this is not really a solution because, ideally, you should be able to put in any speed value and it should just produce smooth animations out of it.
I am working on exactly the same thing but before that, I want to know if the above fix for the glitch helps you and we are finally done with it? Let me know.
Update:
Here is my version that I spoke of earlier, for your perusal.
Because all you are trying to do is loop images in a very linear fashion, I, for one, do not see the need to rely on animate() function of jQuery. There is requestAnimationFrame API that I have leveraged instead. In fact, in my demonstration below I have completely abandoned jQuery in favour of vanilla JavaScript only because I kept finding alternatives to pretty much everything we needed to do in this demo. But of course, this is also a very subjective matter; a taste thing; so if you want to go with jQuery, then by all means.
Another fundamental change I brought is rather than updating top values, I have resorted to updating translateY values.
Take a look at this jsFiddle and let me know if it fits your needs.
JavaScript code of which is as belows:
// [http://www.paulirish.com/2011/requestanimationframe-for-smart-animating/]
window.requestAnimFrame=(function(){return window.requestAnimationFrame||window.webkitRequestAnimationFrame||window.mozRequestAnimationFrame||function(callback){window.setTimeout(callback,1000/60);};})();
var main=null;
var imageScroll2=null;
var imageScroll3=null;
var totalHeight=null;
var initY=null;
var destY=null;
var currY=null;
var increment=null;
var direction=null;
var UP=null;
var DOWN=null;
var isPlaying=null;
function init(){
main=document.getElementById('example4');
imageScroll2=main.getElementsByClassName('image_scroll_2')[0];
imageScroll3=main.getElementsByClassName('image_scroll_3')[0];
totalHeight=imageScroll3.clientHeight;
UP='upwards';
DOWN='downwards';
isPlaying=true;
direction=UP;
increment=10;
if(direction===DOWN){
initY= -totalHeight;
destY=0;
}else{
initY=0;
destY= -totalHeight;
}
currY=initY;
imageScroll2.appendChild(imageScroll3.cloneNode(true));
if(imageScroll2.addEventListener){
imageScroll2.addEventListener('mouseover',function(){isPlaying=false;},false);
imageScroll2.addEventListener('mouseout',function(){isPlaying=true;},false);
}else{
imageScroll2.attachEvent('onmouseover',function(){isPlaying=false;});
imageScroll2.attachEvent('onmouseout',function(){isPlaying=true;});
}
requestAnimFrame(render);
}
function render(){
if(isPlaying){
imageScroll2.style.transform='translate(0px,'+currY+'px)';
if(direction===DOWN){
currY+=increment;
if(currY>=destY){currY=initY;}
}else{
currY-=increment;
if(currY<=destY){currY=initY;}
}
}
requestAnimFrame(render);
}
//
init();

Synchronized scrolling using jQuery?

I am trying to implement synchronized scrolling for two DIV with the following code.
DEMO
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#div1").scroll(function () {
$("#div2").scrollTop($("#div1").scrollTop());
});
$("#div2").scroll(function () {
$("#div1").scrollTop($("#div2").scrollTop());
});
});
#div1 and #div2 is having the very same content but different sizes, say
#div1 {
height : 800px;
width: 600px;
}
#div1 {
height : 400px;
width: 200px;
}
With this code, I am facing two issues.
1) Scrolling is not well synchronized, since the divs are of different sizes. I know, this is because, I am directly setting the scrollTop value. I need to find the percentage of scrolled content and calculate corresponding scrollTop value for the other div. I am not sure, how to find the actual height and current scroll position.
2) This issue is only found in firefox. In firefox, scrolling is not smooth as in other browsers. I think this because the above code is creating a infinite loop of scroll events.
I am not sure, why this is only happening with firefox. Is there any way to find the source of scroll event, so that I can resolve this issue.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You can use element.scrollTop / (element.scrollHeight - element.offsetHeight) to get the percentage (it'll be a value between 0 and 1). So you can multiply the other element's (.scrollHeight - .offsetHeight) by this value for proportional scrolling.
To avoid triggering the listeners in a loop you could temporarily unbind the listener, set the scrollTop and rebind again.
var $divs = $('#div1, #div2');
var sync = function(e){
var $other = $divs.not(this).off('scroll'), other = $other.get(0);
var percentage = this.scrollTop / (this.scrollHeight - this.offsetHeight);
other.scrollTop = percentage * (other.scrollHeight - other.offsetHeight);
// Firefox workaround. Rebinding without delay isn't enough.
setTimeout( function(){ $other.on('scroll', sync ); },10);
}
$divs.on( 'scroll', sync);
http://jsfiddle.net/b75KZ/5/

Runs like clockwork (see DEMO)
$(document).ready(function(){
var master = "div1"; // this is id div
var slave = "div2"; // this is other id div
var master_tmp;
var slave_tmp;
var timer;
var sync = function ()
{
if($(this).attr('id') == slave)
{
master_tmp = master;
slave_tmp = slave;
master = slave;
slave = master_tmp;
}
$("#" + slave).unbind("scroll");
var percentage = this.scrollTop / (this.scrollHeight - this.offsetHeight);
var x = percentage * ($("#" + slave).get(0).scrollHeight - $("#" + slave).get(0).offsetHeight);
$("#" + slave).scrollTop(x);
if(typeof(timer) !== 'undefind')
clearTimeout(timer);
timer = setTimeout(function(){ $("#" + slave).scroll(sync) }, 200)
}
$('#' + master + ', #' + slave).scroll(sync);
});

This is what I'm using. Just call the syncScroll(...) function with the two elements you want to synchronize. I found pawel's solution had issues with continuing to slowly scroll after the mouse or trackpad was actually done with the operation.
See working example here.
// Sync up our elements.
syncScroll($('.scroll-elem-1'), $('.scroll-elem-2'));
/***
* Synchronize Scroll
* Synchronizes the vertical scrolling of two elements.
* The elements can have different content heights.
*
* #param $el1 {Object}
* Native DOM element or jQuery selector.
* First element to sync.
* #param $el2 {Object}
* Native DOM element or jQuery selector.
* Second element to sync.
*/
function syncScroll(el1, el2) {
var $el1 = $(el1);
var $el2 = $(el2);
// Lets us know when a scroll is organic
// or forced from the synced element.
var forcedScroll = false;
// Catch our elements' scroll events and
// syncronize the related element.
$el1.scroll(function() { performScroll($el1, $el2); });
$el2.scroll(function() { performScroll($el2, $el1); });
// Perform the scroll of the synced element
// based on the scrolled element.
function performScroll($scrolled, $toScroll) {
if (forcedScroll) return (forcedScroll = false);
var percent = ($scrolled.scrollTop() /
($scrolled[0].scrollHeight - $scrolled.outerHeight())) * 100;
setScrollTopFromPercent($toScroll, percent);
}
// Scroll to a position in the given
// element based on a percent.
function setScrollTopFromPercent($el, percent) {
var scrollTopPos = (percent / 100) *
($el[0].scrollHeight - $el.outerHeight());
forcedScroll = true;
$el.scrollTop(scrollTopPos);
}
}

If the divs are of equal sizes then this code below is a simple way to scroll them synchronously:
scroll_all_blocks: function(e) {
var scrollLeft = $(e.target)[0].scrollLeft;
var len = $('.scroll_class').length;
for (var i = 0; i < len; i++)
{
$('.scroll_class')[i].scrollLeft = scrollLeft;
}
}
Here im using horizontal scroll, but you can use scrollTop here instead. This function is call on scroll event on the div, so the e will have access to the event object.
Secondly, you can simply have the ratio of corresponding sizes of the divs calculated to apply in this line $('.scroll_class')[i].scrollLeft = scrollLeft;

I solved the sync scrolling loop problem by setting the scroll percentage to fixed-point notation: percent.toFixed(0), with 0 as the parameter. This prevents mismatched fractional scrolling heights between the two synced elements, which are constantly trying to "catch up" with each other. This code will let them catch up after at most a single extra step (i.e., the second element may continue to scroll an extra pixel after the user stops scrolling). Not a perfect solution or the most sophisticated, but certainly the simplest I could find.
var left = document.getElementById('left');
var right = document.getElementById('right');
var el2;
var percentage = function(el) { return (el.scrollTop / (el.scrollHeight - el.offsetHeight)) };
function syncScroll(el1) {
el1.getAttribute('id') === 'left' ? el2 = right : el2 = left;
el2.scrollTo( 0, (percentage(el1) * (el2.scrollHeight - el2.offsetHeight)).toFixed(0) ); // toFixed(0) prevents scrolling feedback loop
}
document.getElementById('left').addEventListener('scroll',function() {
syncScroll(this);
});
document.getElementById('right').addEventListener('scroll',function() {
syncScroll(this);
});

I like pawel's clean solution but it lacks something I need and has a strange scrolling bug where it continues to scroll and my plugin will work on multiple containers not just two.
http://www.xtf.dk/2015/12/jquery-plugin-synchronize-scroll.html
Example & demo: http://trunk.xtf.dk/Project/ScrollSync/
Plugin: http://trunk.xtf.dk/Project/ScrollSync/jquery.scrollSync.js
$('.scrollable').scrollSync();

If you don't want proportional scrolling, but rather to scroll an equal amount of pixels on each field, you could add the value of change to the current value of the field you're binding the scroll-event to.
Let's say that #left is the small field, and #right is the bigger field.
var oldRst = 0;
$('#right').on('scroll', function () {
l = $('#left');
var lst = l.scrollTop();
var rst = $(this).scrollTop();
l.scrollTop(lst+(rst-oldRst)); // <-- like this
oldRst = rst;
});
https://jsfiddle.net/vuvgc0a8/1/
By adding the value of change, and not just setting it equal to #right's scrollTop(), you can scroll up or down in the small field, regardless of its scrollTop() being less than the bigger field. An example of this is a user page on Facebook.
This is what I needed when I came here, so I thought I'd share.

From the pawel solution (first answer).
For the horizzontal synchronized scrolling using jQuery this is the solution:
var $divs = $('#div1, #div2'); //only 2 divs
var sync = function(e){
var $other = $divs.not(this).off('scroll');
var other = $other.get(0);
var percentage = this.scrollLeft / (this.scrollWidth - this.offsetWidth);
other.scrollLeft = percentage * (other.scrollWidth - other.offsetWidth);
setTimeout( function(){ $other.on('scroll', sync ); },10);
}
$divs.on('scroll', sync);
JSFiddle
An other solution for multiple horizontally synchronized divs is this, but it works for divs with same width.
var $divs = $('#div1, #div2, #div3'); //multiple divs
var sync = function (e) {
var me = $(this);
var $other = $divs.not(me).off('scroll');
$divs.not(me).each(function (index) {
$(this).scrollLeft(me.scrollLeft());
});
setTimeout(function () {
$other.on('scroll', sync);
}, 10);
}
$divs.on('scroll', sync);
NB: Only for divs with same width
JSFiddle

Clicking on Same button to Reverse Javascript effect

So I am very very new to JavaScript and unfortunately I don't know the basics too well also.
I was working on a code to make an element hidden after clicking it and again reversing back the effect by clicking the same button but I am unable to do so. Please help me here is the code:
$(function() {
$('#boxclose').click(function(){
$('#md-share-window').animate({'bottom':'-90px'},500,function(){});
});
});

You can use a class to identify the state of the element you are animating.
Here's an example: http://jsfiddle.net/FgDaq/
$('#boxclose').click(function() {
var c = 'on',
el = '#md-share-window',
duration = 500;
if ($(el).hasClass(c)) {
$(el).animate({'bottom': 0}, duration)
.removeClass(c);
} else {
$(el).animate({'bottom': '-90px'}, duration)
.addClass(c);
}
});

You'll need to get the initial position (or hard code it) and keep track of whether you are in the initial or updated position:
$(function() {
var shareWindow = $('#md-share-window');
var initialPosition = shareWindow.css('bottom'); //get initial position
var atInitialPos = true; //whether this is the initial or updated position
$('#boxclose').on('click', function(){
var newPosition = atInitialPos ? '-90px' : initialPosition; //determines new position
shareWindow.animate({'bottom': newPosition}, 500);
atInitialPos = !atInitialPos; //toggle initial position boolean
});
});

Fixing the animation properties

I am doing some research at the moment into creating a new maths game for primary school children where divs from 0-9 appear at random inside a container.
A question is given at the beginning. Something like, multiples of 20. The user will then have to click on the correct ones, and they will then be counted at the end and a score will be given.
I have just changed the speed in which the divs appear so that they appear for longer and more than one at a time to make the game easier for younger children.
I used "fadeIn" like so..
$('#' + id).animate({
top: newY,
left: newX
}, 'slow', function() {}).fadeIn(2000);
}
My problem is that now when I shoot the correct or incorrect number the animation is very glitchy and I cannot figure out why.
Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/cFKHq/6/ (See version 5 to see what it was like before)

Inside startplay(), control the concurrency when calling scramble() , I do it with a global var named window.cont, so I replaced your following call:
play = setInterval(scramble, 1800);
for this one:
play = setInterval(function() {
if (window.cont){
window.cont = false;
scramble();
}
}, 1000);
The var window.cont needs to be set globally at the start of your code, like so:
var miss = 0;
var hit = 0;
var target = $("#target");
window.cont = true;
So with window.cont you now can control that animations are executed one after another, without overlapping, like so:
$('#'+id).css({
top: newY,
left: newX
}).fadeIn(2000, function() {
setTimeout(function() {
$('#' + id).slideUp('fast');
window.cont = true;
}, 1500);
});
See working demo