I am creating a chat using Ajax requests and I'm trying to get messages div to scroll to the bottom without much luck.
I am wrapping everything in this div:
#scroll {
height:400px;
overflow:scroll;
}
Is there a way to keep it scrolled to the bottom by default using JS?
Is there a way to keep it scrolled to the bottom after an ajax request?
Here's what I use on my site:
var objDiv = document.getElementById("your_div");
objDiv.scrollTop = objDiv.scrollHeight;
This is much easier if you're using jQuery scrollTop:
$("#mydiv").scrollTop($("#mydiv")[0].scrollHeight);
Try the code below:
const scrollToBottom = (id) => {
const element = document.getElementById(id);
element.scrollTop = element.scrollHeight;
}
You can also use Jquery to make the scroll smooth:
const scrollSmoothlyToBottom = (id) => {
const element = $(`#${id}`);
element.animate({
scrollTop: element.prop("scrollHeight")
}, 500);
}
Here is the demo
Here's how it works:
Ref: scrollTop, scrollHeight, clientHeight
using jQuery animate:
$('#DebugContainer').stop().animate({
scrollTop: $('#DebugContainer')[0].scrollHeight
}, 800);
Newer method that works on all current browsers:
this.scrollIntoView(false);
var mydiv = $("#scroll");
mydiv.scrollTop(mydiv.prop("scrollHeight"));
Works from jQuery 1.6
https://api.jquery.com/scrollTop/
http://api.jquery.com/prop/
alternative solution
function scrollToBottom(element) {
element.scroll({ top: element.scrollHeight, behavior: 'smooth' });
}
smooth scroll with Javascript:
document.getElementById('messages').scrollIntoView({ behavior: 'smooth', block: 'end' });
If you don't want to rely on scrollHeight, the following code helps:
$('#scroll').scrollTop(1000000);
Java Script:
document.getElementById('messages').scrollIntoView(false);
Scrolls to the last line of the content present.
My Scenario: I had an list of string, in which I had to append a string given by a user and scroll to the end of the list automatically. I had fixed height of the display of the list, after which it should overflow.
I tried #Jeremy Ruten's answer, it worked, but it was scrolling to the (n-1)th element. If anybody is facing this type of issue, you can use setTimeOut() method workaround. You need to modify the code to below:
setTimeout(() => {
var objDiv = document.getElementById('div_id');
objDiv.scrollTop = objDiv.scrollHeight
}, 0)
Here is the StcakBlitz link I have created which shows the problem and its solution : https://stackblitz.com/edit/angular-ivy-x9esw8
If your project targets modern browsers, you can now use CSS Scroll Snap to control the scrolling behavior, such as keeping any dynamically generated element at the bottom.
.wrapper > div {
background-color: white;
border-radius: 5px;
padding: 5px 10px;
text-align: center;
font-family: system-ui, sans-serif;
}
.wrapper {
display: flex;
padding: 5px;
background-color: #ccc;
border-radius: 5px;
flex-direction: column;
gap: 5px;
margin: 10px;
max-height: 150px;
/* Control snap from here */
overflow-y: auto;
overscroll-behavior-y: contain;
scroll-snap-type: y mandatory;
}
.wrapper > div:last-child {
scroll-snap-align: start;
}
<div class="wrapper">
<div>01</div>
<div>02</div>
<div>03</div>
<div>04</div>
<div>05</div>
<div>06</div>
<div>07</div>
<div>08</div>
<div>09</div>
<div>10</div>
</div>
You can use the HTML DOM scrollIntoView Method like this:
var element = document.getElementById("scroll");
element.scrollIntoView();
Javascript or jquery:
var scroll = document.getElementById('messages');
scroll.scrollTop = scroll.scrollHeight;
scroll.animate({scrollTop: scroll.scrollHeight});
Css:
.messages
{
height: 100%;
overflow: auto;
}
Using jQuery, scrollTop is used to set the vertical position of scollbar for any given element. there is also a nice jquery scrollTo plugin used to scroll with animation and different options (demos)
var myDiv = $("#div_id").get(0);
myDiv.scrollTop = myDiv.scrollHeight;
if you want to use jQuery's animate method to add animation while scrolling down, check the following snippet:
var myDiv = $("#div_id").get(0);
myDiv.animate({
scrollTop: myDiv.scrollHeight
}, 500);
I have encountered the same problem, but with an additional constraint: I had no control over the code that appended new elements to the scroll container. None of the examples I found here allowed me to do just that. Here is the solution I ended up with .
It uses Mutation Observers (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MutationObserver) which makes it usable only on modern browsers (though polyfills exist)
So basically the code does just that :
var scrollContainer = document.getElementById("myId");
// Define the Mutation Observer
var observer = new MutationObserver(function(mutations) {
// Compute sum of the heights of added Nodes
var newNodesHeight = mutations.reduce(function(sum, mutation) {
return sum + [].slice.call(mutation.addedNodes)
.map(function (node) { return node.scrollHeight || 0; })
.reduce(function(sum, height) {return sum + height});
}, 0);
// Scroll to bottom if it was already scrolled to bottom
if (scrollContainer.clientHeight + scrollContainer.scrollTop + newNodesHeight + 10 >= scrollContainer.scrollHeight) {
scrollContainer.scrollTop = scrollContainer.scrollHeight;
}
});
// Observe the DOM Element
observer.observe(scrollContainer, {childList: true});
I made a fiddle to demonstrate the concept :
https://jsfiddle.net/j17r4bnk/
Found this really helpful, thank you.
For the Angular 1.X folks out there:
angular.module('myApp').controller('myController', ['$scope', '$document',
function($scope, $document) {
var overflowScrollElement = $document[0].getElementById('your_overflow_scroll_div');
overflowScrollElement[0].scrollTop = overflowScrollElement[0].scrollHeight;
}
]);
Just because the wrapping in jQuery elements versus HTML DOM elements gets a little confusing with angular.
Also for a chat application, I found making this assignment after your chats were loaded to be useful, you also might need to slap on short timeout as well.
Like you, I'm building a chat app and want the most recent message to scroll into view. This ultimately worked well for me:
//get the div that contains all the messages
let div = document.getElementById('message-container');
//make the last element (a message) to scroll into view, smoothly!
div.lastElementChild.scrollIntoView({ behavior: 'smooth' });
small addendum: scrolls only, if last line is already visible. if scrolled a tiny bit, leaves the content where it is (attention: not tested with different font sizes. this may need some adjustments inside ">= comparison"):
var objDiv = document.getElementById(id);
var doScroll=objDiv.scrollTop>=(objDiv.scrollHeight-objDiv.clientHeight);
// add new content to div
$('#' + id ).append("new line at end<br>"); // this is jquery!
// doScroll is true, if we the bottom line is already visible
if( doScroll) objDiv.scrollTop = objDiv.scrollHeight;
Just as a bonus snippet. I'm using angular and was trying to scroll a message thread to the bottom when a user selected different conversations with users. In order to make sure that the scroll works after the new data had been loaded into the div with the ng-repeat for messages, just wrap the scroll snippet in a timeout.
$timeout(function(){
var messageThread = document.getElementById('message-thread-div-id');
messageThread.scrollTop = messageThread.scrollHeight;
},0)
That will make sure that the scroll event is fired after the data has been inserted into the DOM.
This will let you scroll all the way down regards the document height
$('html, body').animate({scrollTop:$(document).height()}, 1000);
You can also, using jQuery, attach an animation to html,body of the document via:
$("html,body").animate({scrollTop:$("#div-id")[0].offsetTop}, 1000);
which will result in a smooth scroll to the top of the div with id "div-id".
Scroll to the last element inside the div:
myDiv.scrollTop = myDiv.lastChild.offsetTop
You can use the Element.scrollTo() method.
It can be animated using the built-in browser/OS animation, so it's super smooth.
function scrollToBottom() {
const scrollContainer = document.getElementById('container');
scrollContainer.scrollTo({
top: scrollContainer.scrollHeight,
left: 0,
behavior: 'smooth'
});
}
// initialize dummy content
const scrollContainer = document.getElementById('container');
const numCards = 100;
let contentInnerHtml = '';
for (let i=0; i<numCards; i++) {
contentInnerHtml += `<div class="card mb-2"><div class="card-body">Card ${i + 1}</div></div>`;
}
scrollContainer.innerHTML = contentInnerHtml;
.overflow-y-scroll {
overflow-y: scroll;
}
<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap#4.5.3/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<div class="d-flex flex-column vh-100">
<div id="container" class="overflow-y-scroll flex-grow-1"></div>
<div>
<button class="btn btn-primary" onclick="scrollToBottom()">Scroll to bottom</button>
</div>
</div>
Css only:
.scroll-container {
overflow-anchor: none;
}
Makes it so the scroll bar doesn't stay anchored to the top when a child element is added. For example, when new message is added at the bottom of chat, scroll chat to new message.
Why not use simple CSS to do this?
The trick is to use display: flex; and flex-direction: column-reverse;
Here is a working example. https://codepen.io/jimbol/pen/YVJzBg
A very simple method to this is to set the scroll to to the height of the div.
var myDiv = document.getElementById("myDiv");
window.scrollTo(0, myDiv.innerHeight);
On my Angular 6 application I just did this:
postMessage() {
// post functions here
let history = document.getElementById('history')
let interval
interval = setInterval(function() {
history.scrollTop = history.scrollHeight
clearInterval(interval)
}, 1)
}
The clearInterval(interval) function will stop the timer to allow manual scroll top / bottom.
I know this is an old question, but none of these solutions worked out for me. I ended up using offset().top to get the desired results. Here's what I used to gently scroll the screen down to the last message in my chat application:
$("#html, body").stop().animate({
scrollTop: $("#last-message").offset().top
}, 2000);
I hope this helps someone else.
I use the difference between the Y coordinate of the first item div and the Y coordinate of the selected item div. Here is the JavaScript/JQuery code and the html:
function scrollTo(event){
// In my proof of concept, I had a few <button>s with value
// attributes containing strings with id selector expressions
// like "#item1".
let selectItem = $($(event.target).attr('value'));
let selectedDivTop = selectItem.offset().top;
let scrollingDiv = selectItem.parent();
let firstItem = scrollingDiv.children('div').first();
let firstItemTop = firstItem.offset().top;
let newScrollValue = selectedDivTop - firstItemTop;
scrollingDiv.scrollTop(newScrollValue);
}
<div id="scrolling" style="height: 2rem; overflow-y: scroll">
<div id="item1">One</div>
<div id="item2">Two</div>
<div id="item3">Three</div>
<div id="item4">Four</div>
<div id="item5">Five</div>
</div>
I've started with the below which works perfect, but I only need this to run and execute when my nav element .mainNav is scrolled to within a certain point within browser height.
#media screen and (max-height: 660px) {
.mainNav {
margin-top:-130px !important;
}
}
So detecting vertical browser height WITH scroll position within then chain .css with jQuery to. (margin-top:-100px)
Basically how to combine above parameter with below parameter. Below detects scroll position...
var $document = $(document),
$element = $('#some-element'),
className = 'hasScrolled';
$document.scroll(function() {
if ($document.scrollTop() >= 50) {
// user scrolled 50 pixels or more;
// do stuff
$element.addClass(className);
} else {
$element.removeClass(className);
}
});
You could do this by using the clientBoundingRect of the element. For example (untested, just theory);
var mainNav = document.getElementsByClassName('.mainNav')[0];
window.onscroll(function(e){
if(mainNav.clientBoundingRect().top <= 100 && window.height <= 660){
mainNav.style.marginTop = "-130px";
// or you could add a class here, as per the suggestion above, such as
// mainNav.setAttribute('class', 'mainNav locked');
}else{
mainNav.style.marginTop = "0";
// and remove it here
// mainNav.setAttribute('class', 'mainNav');
}
})
There is no visbility pseudo-selector in CSS, so you're looking at implementing this using JS handing of the visibilitychange event on your element, and then toggling the right (sequence of) class(es) through the element.classList interface, probably with transition rules in the CSS itself for the properties you want to be dynamic.
I've got some code that adds a CSS class to an element when the user scrolls to a certain amount, to make a sticky menu bar (The distance to scroll is dependant on screen resolution so is calculated within the JQuery) - I want to add a CSS value to this class (.header_scroll) so that it changes the height of the element the class is being assigned to on scroll, to the height of another dynamic height element (#nav_wrap)
jQuery("document").ready(function($){
//Find the height of the header
var headHeight = $("#header_wrap");
var headerHeight = headHeight.innerHeight();
//Find the height of the nav bar
var menuFindHeight = $("#nav_wrap");
var menuHeight = menuFindHeight.innerHeight();
//Add value to class
$(".header_scroll").css({"height": menuHeight});
//Add class on scroll
var nav = $('#header_wrap');
$(window).scroll(function () {
if ($(this).scrollTop() > ( headerHeight - menuHeight )) {
nav.addClass("header_scroll");
} else {
nav.removeClass("header_scroll");
}
});
});`
The code to add the class is working fine, however no matter what variations on this I try, the:
//Add value to class
$(".header_scroll").css({"height": menuHeight});
Section will just not do anything at all. Looking in inspect element in chrome I'd expect to see
height: xxxpx;
appear in .header_scroll but it isn't
$(".header_scroll").css({"height": 200});
This will not add a height property to your CSS rule. Instead it will add style="height: 200px;" to the .header_scroll HTML element(s).
So you would end up with an HTML element like:
<div class="header_scroll" style="height: 200px;"></div>
Maybe you can't get the right value of headerHeight, that why it doesn't appear in your inspect tools.
Check that you get the correct height of your #headHeight element and try this:
$(".header_scroll").height(headerHeight);
I am create a div and in JavaScript and after that push it to Google Map i attach some css properties with that div all properties are applied except 1 property that is bottom i specify a value of 15px but it shows 0px.
Any thoughts how do i apply that.
Demo is here
This is how I create div
var unitControlDiv = document.createElement('div');
unitControlDiv.style.margin = '4px';
unitControlDiv.style.padding = '4px';
unitControlDiv.style.backgroundColor = 'ButtonShadow';
unitControlDiv.style.borderRadius = '10px';
unitControlDiv.style.bottom = '15px';
unitControlDiv.style.right = '10px';
unitControlDiv.className = 'unitContainer';
Update 1
Following is the css that generated after map load
i want to change above bottom and right from 0,320px to 15px,10px respectively
The problem is this line:
map.controls[google.maps.ControlPosition.BOTTOM_RIGHT].push(unitControlDiv);
This line is basically resetting your bottom css property to '0px' because its positioning the controls to the bottom. To workaround this problem you can use margin bottom.
unitControlDiv.style.marginBottom = '50px';
Updated Demo
---- Updated ------
So why don't you override it in the css itself...
.unitContainer {
margin:4px;
padding:4px;
background-color:ButtonShadow;
border-radius:10px;
bottom: 50px !important; /*Changed here*/
}
bottom is a style attribute related to position. you can declare
position : absolute or relative then only the bottom will works
otherwise it won't work
unitControlDiv.style.marginBottom = '15px';
I am trying to add a scroll event which will change the background of a div which also acts as the window background (it has 100% width and height). This is as far as I get. I am not so good at jquery. I have seen tutorials with click event listeners. but applying the same concept , like, returning scroll event as false, gets me nowhere. also I saw a tutorial on SO where the person suggest use of array. but I get pretty confused using arrays (mostly due to syntax).
I know about plugins like waypoints.js and skrollr.js which can be used but I need to change around 50-60 (for the illusion of a video being played when scrolled) ... but it wont be feasible.
here is the code im using:-
*
{
border: 2px solid black;
}
#frame
{
background: url('1.jpg') no-repeat;
height: 1000px;
width: 100%;
}
</style>
<script>
$(function(){
for ( i=0; i = $.scrolltop; i++)
{
$("#frame").attr('src', ''+i+'.jpg');
}
});
</script>
<body>
<div id="frame"></div>
</body>
Inside your for loop, you are setting the src attribute of #frame but it is a div not an img.
So, instead of this:
$("#frame").attr('src', ''+i+'.jpg');
Try this:
$("#frame").css('background-image', 'url(' + i + '.jpg)');
To bind a scroll event to a target element with jQuery:
$('#target').scroll(function() {
//do stuff here
});
To bind a scroll event to the window with jQuery:
$(window).scroll(function () {
//do stuff here
});
Here is the documentation for jQuery .scroll().
UPDATE:
If I understand right, here is a working demo on jsFiddle of what you want to achieve.
CSS:
html, body {
min-height: 1200px; /* for testing the scroll bar */
}
div#frame {
display: block;
position: fixed; /* Set this to fixed to lock that element on the position */
width: 300px;
height: 300px;
z-index: -1; /* Keep the bg frame at the bottom of other elements. */
}
Javascript:
$(document).ready(function() {
switchImage();
});
$(window).scroll(function () {
switchImage();
});
//using images from dummyimages.com for demonstration (300px by 300px)
var images = ["http://dummyimage.com/300x300/000000/fff",
"http://dummyimage.com/300x300/ffcc00/000",
"http://dummyimage.com/300x300/ff0000/000",
"http://dummyimage.com/300x300/ff00cc/000",
"http://dummyimage.com/300x300/ccff00/000"
];
//Gets a valid index from the image array using the scroll-y value as a factor.
function switchImage()
{
var sTop = $(window).scrollTop();
var index = sTop > 0 ? $(document).height() / sTop : 0;
index = Math.round(index) % images.length;
//console.log(index);
$("#frame").css('background-image', 'url(' + images[index] + ')');
}
HTML:
<div id="frame"></div>
Further Suggestions:
I suggest you change the background-image of the body, instead of the div. But, if you have to use a div for this; then you better add a resize event-istener to the window and set/update the height of that div with every resize. The reason is; height:100% does not work as expected in any browser.
I've done this before myself and if I were you I wouldn't use the image as a background, instead use a normal "img" tag prepend it to the top of your page use some css to ensure it stays in the back under all of the other elements. This way you could manipulate the size of the image to fit screen width better. I ran into a lot of issues trying to get the background to size correctly.
Html markup:
<body>
<img src="1.jpg" id="img" />
</body>
Script code:
$(function(){
var topPage = 0, count = 0;
$(window).scroll( function() {
topPage = $(document).scrollTop();
if(topPage > 200) {
// function goes here
$('img').attr('src', ++count +'.jpg');
}
});
});
I'm not totally sure if this is what you're trying to do but basically, when the window is scrolled, you assign the value of the distance to the top of the page, then you can run an if statement to see if you are a certain point. After that just simply change run the function you would like to run.
If you want to supply a range you want the image to change from do something like this, so what will happen is this will allow you to run a function only between the specificied range between 200 and 400 which is the distance from the top of the page.
$(function(){
var topPage = 0, count = 0;
$(window).scroll( function() {
topPage = $(document).scrollTop();
if(topPage > 200 && topPage < 400) {
// function goes here
$('#img').attr('src', ++count +'.jpg');
}
});
});