I replaced the scrolling animation of my one page website with another scrolling animation which changes the URLs when you use the topbar (it was build in foundation)
While the URLs now change when I click an item in the topbar all the other links or clickable elements on my page make it scroll back to the top of the page.
For example when I try to click the next/prev buttons of my slider it scrolls back to the top of the page as if I clicked on Home.
Can someone see whats wrong with the code for the animation?
$(document).ready(function () {
$('a[href^="#"]').click(function () {
var target = $(this.hash),
hash = this.hash;
if (target.length == 0) {
target = $('a[name="' + this.hash.substr(1) + '"]');
}
if (target.length == 0) {
target = $('html');
}
$('html, body').animate({
scrollTop: target.offset().top
}, 500, function () {
location.hash = hash;
});
return false;
});
});
PS: When I scroll manually the URLs don't change when I go down to the next page. If anyone has a fix for this I'll be happy to here from you! (I tried using history.js but that only seems to work if you have a server, which I don't)
//* EDIT *//
I just found out it's not all links that make it scroll to the top of the page, just the buttons of my orbit slider and the menu button when the topbar is collapsed
//EDIT 2//
The URL now changes when I scroll to the next page!
The only problem I am seeing right now is that the buttons of my orbit slider and the menu button of the collapsed topbar act the same as my home button (makes the page scroll all the way back to the top) for some reason.
So the last thing I need to do is get the buttons working again. Making the menu button expand the topbar and making the next and prev buttons of my slider work as normal
If you only want to change the hash depending on the scrollPosition you are half way there.
You'll need to bind some logic to the scroll event. Here is a fork of your Fiddle where the hash is changed on scroll.
When the user scrolls the page we iterate through all .page elements and compare their offset().top against $( document ).scrollTop().
We set the new hash to be the id of the last .page element that has a lower offset().top than $( document ).scrollTop() is.
(I also debounced the function so it doesn't fire constantly when scrolling - you could of course remove that part)
You should however consider that by changing the hash you will jump to the equivalent element. Here is a guide on how to suppress that behaviour.
EDIT:
Here is an updated Fiddle where I implemented the solution from above for suppressing forced scroll on hash change.
Using jQuery and Bootstrap 3 I am trying to create a one page Scrolling Website. Here is the Working Demo . So far it looks fine when user scrolls in sequence like from Section 1 to Section 2 or Section 2to Section 3 but I have some issue on nav navbar-nav items when user scrolls out of order like from Section 1 to Section 6. It looks like nav navbar-nav steps on each items to get the target item!(As you can see in following image)
There is also one other important issue on Section 7 scrolling. which it not scrolls to the same positions as other sections and there is more space. (As you can see in following image)
Here is the jquery which I used for Scrolling
<script>
$(function() {
$('a[href*=#]:not([href=#])').click(function() {
if (location.pathname.replace(/^\//,'') == this.pathname.replace(/^\//,'') && location.hostname == this.hostname) {
var target = $(this.hash);
target = target.length ? target : $('[name=' + this.hash.slice(1) +']');
if (target.length) {
$('html,body').animate({
scrollTop: target.offset().top
}, 1000);
return false;
}
}
});
});
</script>
Can you please help me to fix these thing on the code? Thanks
1) The problem with the last section should be ease to fix. There is not enought "room" underneath the last section and so the browser cannot scroll any further. A quick and dirty fix for that would be to insert some
<p> </p>
lines at the end of the last paragraph.
2) I think this could be tricky. The problem is that not the Sections, but the "html" and "body" elements are scrolled. That means if the user is at the first section and clicks on the last section the whole page is scrolled. The user sees all content during the scroll animation. I think that is how it is supposed to work. Otherwise you would have to change how and what you actually scroll.
I am using https://github.com/Prinzhorn/skrollr to animate the background of my site as I scroll. However I am also wanting to have my links scroll up and down the page like a normal single page site would do.
The problem is that both are working if I manually scroll the background changes, if I click the link the page scrolls to the correct place. The problem is that when I click the button the background doesn't scroll as well.
It seems like I am working with two different scroll functions and as a result they aren't working together and I need to use the same one.
Here is the code.
js - Scroll to link:
var $root = $('html, body');
$('a').click(function() {
var href = $.attr(this, 'href');
$root.animate({
scrollTop: $(href).offset().top
}, 500, function () {
window.location.hash = href;
});
return false;
});
js – Skrollr init
skrollr.init({
smoothScrolling: true,
forceHeight: true
});
I will try put together a fiddle to make it more clear but hopefully the answer is really simple.
If anyone else ever faces this problem the answer lies her: https://github.com/Prinzhorn/skrollr-menu
This will allow you to scroll to you internal links along with Skrollr animations. A HUGE plus and a very simple fix, you don't even need any of your own scrolling code just this and it will work with you links.
There's a way to do this, Skrollr has some methods very useful, in console, just type the variable contains skrollr, it will show some methods that you can use, one of them is "setScrollTop(int, bool)", so just call this method with the info you need, for example:
s.setScrollTop(9000, true)
Which means that I want it to scroll to the height position 9000. It works fine, you just need to know the height position where you need to go.
I have a container (div) on the page. This container has a scrolling (provided by overflow:auto; height:400px).
I need no provide a URL, that will open a page so that the main page will not be scrolled, but the text in the container will be scrolled.
I tried www.mysite.com#position, but by this way the main page is scrolled too (and I need, that users will see the header on the top of the screen, and the "#position" position on the top of the container)
This is possible with javascript. And I will show a jQuery example here.
if (window.location.hash == '#position') {
$('#containerDiv').animate({
scrollTop: $("#actual_position").offset().top
}, 2000);
}
The actual_position should be the place where to scroll to. position should just be in the url and not on the page, to prevent the whole page from scrolling.
May you use the css-properties: position:fixed, top:..., left:... for your element that should stay at a certain place on your side, when an user scrolls.
Furthermore you can put all content that you do not want to be scrolled into a div and define the css-properties.
I hope this helps you a little bit.
Really it's an upgrading of Arjan answer (and now this really works).
As Arjan's suggestion the script will not work every time, but only by providing #scroll in the end of url (www.mysite.com#scroll). This script will scroll the container scroll bar to the #position element, and the all document will stay.
jQuery(window).load(function(){
container_top = jQuery('#container').offset().top;
element_top = jQuery('#position').offset().top;
element_relative_top = element_top -container_top;
if (window.location.hash == '#scroll') {
jQuery('#container').animate({
scrollTop: element_relative_top
}, 2000);
}
})
I have a link on a long HTML page. When I click it, I wish a div on another part of the page to be visible in the window by scrolling into view.
A bit like EnsureVisible in other languages.
I've checked out scrollTop and scrollTo but they seem like red herrings.
Can anyone help?
old question, but if anyone finds this through google (as I did) and who does not want to use anchors or jquery; there's a builtin javascriptfunction to 'jump' to an element;
document.getElementById('youridhere').scrollIntoView();
and what's even better; according to the great compatibility-tables on quirksmode, this is supported by all major browsers!
If you don't want to add an extra extension the following code should work with jQuery.
$('a[href=#target]').
click(function(){
var target = $('a[name=target]');
if (target.length)
{
var top = target.offset().top;
$('html,body').animate({scrollTop: top}, 1000);
return false;
}
});
How about the JQuery ScrollTo - see this sample code
You can use Element.scrollIntoView() method as was mentioned above. If you leave it with no parameters inside you will have an instant ugly scroll. To prevent that you can add this parameter - behavior:"smooth".
Example:
document.getElementById('scroll-here-plz').scrollIntoView({behavior: "smooth", block: "start", inline: "nearest"});
Just replace scroll-here-plz with your div or element on a website. And if you see your element at the bottom of your window or the position is not what you would have expected, play with parameter block: "". You can use block: "start", block: "end" or block: "center".
Remember: Always use parameters inside an object {}.
If you would still have problems, go to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/scrollIntoView
There is detailed documentation for this method.
Click here to scroll
<A name='myAnchorALongWayDownThePage"></a>
No fancy scrolling but it should take you there.
The difficulty with scrolling is that you may not only need to scroll the page to show a div, but you may need to scroll inside scrollable divs on any number of levels as well.
The scrollTop property is a available on any DOM element, including the document body. By setting it, you can control how far down something is scrolled. You can also use clientHeight and scrollHeight properties to see how much scrolling is needed (scrolling is possible when clientHeight (viewport) is less than scrollHeight (the height of the content).
You can also use the offsetTop property to figure out where in the container an element is located.
To build a truly general purpose "scroll into view" routine from scratch, you would need to start at the node you want to expose, make sure it's in the visible portion of it's parent, then repeat the same for the parent, etc, all the way until you reach the top.
One step of this would look something like this (untested code, not checking edge cases):
function scrollIntoView(node) {
var parent = node.parent;
var parentCHeight = parent.clientHeight;
var parentSHeight = parent.scrollHeight;
if (parentSHeight > parentCHeight) {
var nodeHeight = node.clientHeight;
var nodeOffset = node.offsetTop;
var scrollOffset = nodeOffset + (nodeHeight / 2) - (parentCHeight / 2);
parent.scrollTop = scrollOffset;
}
if (parent.parent) {
scrollIntoView(parent);
}
}
This worked for me
document.getElementById('divElem').scrollIntoView();
Answer posted here - same solution to your problem.
Edit: the JQuery answer is very nice if you want a smooth scroll - I hadn't seen that in action before.
Why not a named anchor?
The property you need is location.hash. For example:
location.hash = 'top'; //would jump to named anchor "top
I don't know how to do the nice scroll animation without the use of dojo or some toolkit like that, but if you just need it to jump to an anchor, location.hash should do it.
(tested on FF3 and Safari 3.1.2)
I can't add a comment to futtta's reply above, but for a smoother scroll use:
onClick="document.getElementById('more').scrollIntoView({block: 'start', behavior: 'smooth'});"
<button onClick="scrollIntoView()"></button>
<br>
<div id="scroll-to"></div>
function scrollIntoView() {
document.getElementById('scroll-to').scrollIntoView({
behavior: 'smooth'
});
}
The scrollIntoView method accepts scroll-Options to animate the scroll.
With smooth scroll
document.getElementById('scroll-to').scrollIntoView({
behavior: 'smooth'
});
No animation
document.getElementById('scroll-to').scrollIntoView();
There is a jQuery plugin for the general case of scrolling to a DOM element, but if performance is an issue (and when is it not?), I would suggest doing it manually. This involves two steps:
Finding the position of the element you are scrolling to.
Scrolling to that position.
quirksmode gives a good explanation of the mechanism behind the former. Here's my preferred solution:
function absoluteOffset(elem) {
return elem.offsetParent && elem.offsetTop + absoluteOffset(elem.offsetParent);
}
It uses casting from null to 0, which isn't proper etiquette in some circles, but I like it :) The second part uses window.scroll. So the rest of the solution is:
function scrollToElement(elem) {
window.scroll(0, absoluteOffset(elem));
}
Voila!
As stated already, Element.scrollIntoView() is a good answer. Since the question says "I have a link on a long HTML page..." I want to mention a relevant detail. If this is done through a functional link it may not produce the desired effect of scrolling to the target div. For example:
HTML:
<a id="link1" href="#">Scroll With Link</a>
JavaScript:
const link = document.getElementById("link1");
link.onclick = showBox12;
function showBox12()
{
const box = document.getElementById("box12");
box.scrollIntoView();
console.log("Showing Box:" + box);
}
Clicking on Scroll With Link will show the message on the console, but it would seem to have no effect because the # will bring the page back to the top. Interestingly, if using href="" one might actually see the page scroll to the div and jump back to the top.
One solution is to use the standard JavaScript to properly disable the link:
<a id="link1" href="javascript:void(0);">Scroll With Link</a>
Now it will go to box12 and stay there.
I use a lightweight javascript plugin that I found works across devices, browsers and operating systems: zenscroll
scrollTop (IIRC) is where in the document the top of the page is scrolled to. scrollTo scrolls the page so that the top of the page is where you specify.
What you need here is some Javascript manipulated styles. Say if you wanted the div off-screen and scroll in from the right you would set the left attribute of the div to the width of the page and then decrease it by a set amount every few seconds until it is where you want.
This should point you in the right direction.
Additional: I'm sorry, I thought you wanted a separate div to 'pop out' from somewhere (sort of like this site does sometimes), and not move the entire page to a section. Proper use of anchors would achieve that effect.
I personally found Josh's jQuery-based answer above to be the best I saw, and worked perfectly for my application... of course, I was already using jQuery... I certainly wouldn't have included the whole jQ library just for that one purpose.
Cheers!
EDIT: OK... so mere seconds after posting this, I saw another answer just below mine (not sure if still below me after an edit) that said to use:
document.getElementById('your_element_ID_here').scrollIntoView();
This works perfectly and in so much less code than the jQuery version! I had no idea that there was a built-in function in JS called .scrollIntoView(), but there it is! So, if you want the fancy animation, go jQuery. Quick n' dirty... use this one!
For smooth scroll this code is useful
$('a[href*=#scrollToDivId]').click(function() {
if (location.pathname.replace(/^\//,'') == this.pathname.replace(/^\//,'') && location.hostname == this.hostname) {
var target = $(this.hash);
target = target.length ? target : $('[name=' + this.hash.slice(1) +']');
var head_height = $('.header').outerHeight(); // if page has any sticky header get the header height else use 0 here
if (target.length) {
$('html,body').animate({
scrollTop: target.offset().top - head_height
}, 1000);
return false;
}
}
});
Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm reading the question again and again and still think that Angus McCoteup was asking how to set an element to be position: fixed.
Angus McCoteup, check out http://www.cssplay.co.uk/layouts/fixed.html - if you want your DIV to behave like a menu there, have a look at a CSS there