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Finding where element meets top of scrollable div

I have a scrollable div container fits multiple "pages" (or div's) inside of it's container.
My goal is to, at any given moment, figure out where inside my red container does it reach the top of my scrollable container. So it can be a constant on scroll event, or a button that triggers this task.
So for example. If I have a absolute div element inside one of my red boxes at top:50px. And if I scroll to where that div element reaches the top of my scrollable container. The trigger should say that I am at 50px of my red container.
I'm having a hard time grasping how to accomplish this but I've tried things like:
$("#pageContent").scroll(function(e) {
console.log($(this).scrollTop());
});
But it doesn't take into account the separate pages and I don't believe it it completely accurate depending on the scale. Any guidance or help would be greatly appreciated.
Here is my code and a jsfiddle to better support my question.
Note: If necessary, I use scrollspy in my project so I could target which red container needs to be checked.
HTML
<div id="pageContent" class="slide" style="background-color: rgb(241, 242, 247); height: 465px;">
<div id="formBox" style="height: 9248.627450980393px;">
<div class="trimSpace" style="width: 1408px; height: 9248.627450980393px;">
<div id="formScale" style="width: 816px; -webkit-transform: scale(1.7254901960784315); display: block;">
<form action="#" id="XaoQjmc0L51z_form" autocomplete="off">
<div class="formContainer" style="width:816px;height:1056px" id="xzOwqphM4GGR_1">
<div class="formContent">
<div class="formBackground">
<div style="position:absolute;top:50px;left:100px;width:450px;height:25px;background-color:#fff;color:#000;">When this reaches the top, the "trigger" should say 50px"</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="formContainer" style="width:816px;height:1056px" id="xzOwqphM4GGR_2">
<div class="formContent">
<div class="formBackground"><div style="position:absolute;top:50px;left:100px;width:450px;height:25px;background-color:#fff;color:#000;">This should still say 50px</div></div>
</div>
</div>
</form>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
CSS
#pageContent {
position:relative;
padding-bottom:20px;
background-color:#fff;
z-index:2;
overflow:auto;
-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;
-webkit-transform: translate(0, 0);
-moz-transform: translate(0, 0);
-ms-transform: translate(0, 0);
transform: translate(0, 0);
}
#formBox {
display: block;
position: relative;
height: 100%;
padding: 15px;
}
.trimSpace {
display: block;
position: relative;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 0;
height: 100%;
overflow: hidden;
}
#formScale::after {
display: block;
content:'';
padding-bottom:5px;
}
#formScale {
position:relative;
width:816px;
margin:0;
-webkit-transform-origin: 0 0;
-moz-transform-origin: 0 0;
transform-origin: 0 0;
-ms-transform-origin: 0 0;
}
.formContainer {
position:relative;
margin : 0 auto 15px auto;
padding:0;
}
.formContent {
position:absolute;
width:100%;
height:100%;
}
.formBackground {
width:100%;
height:100%;
background-color:red;
}
JS
var PAGEWIDTH = 816;
$(window).resize(function (e) {
zoomProject();
resize();
});
function resize() {
$("#pageContent").css('height', window.innerHeight - 45 + 'px');
}
function zoomProject() {
var maxWidth = $("#formBox").width(),
percent = maxWidth / PAGEWIDTH;
$("#formScale").css({
'transform': 'scale(' + percent + ')',
'-moz-transform': 'scale(' + percent + ')',
'-webkit-transform': 'scale(' + percent + ')',
'-ms-transform': 'scale(' + percent + ')'
});
$(".trimSpace").css('width', (PAGEWIDTH * percent) + 'px');
$("#formBox, .trimSpace").css('height', ($("#formScale").height() * percent) + 'px');
}
zoomProject();
resize();
EDIT:
I don't think I am conveying a good job at relaying what I want to accomplish.
At the moment there are two .formContainer's. When I scroll #pageContainer, the .formContainer divs move up through #pageContainer.
So what I want to accomplish is, when a user clicks the "ME" button or #click (as shown in the fiddle below), I'd like to know where in that particular .formContainer, is it touching the top of #pageContainer.
I do use scroll spy in my real world application so I know which .formContainer is closest to the top. So if you just want to target one .formContainer, that is fine.
I used these white div elements as an example. If I am scrolling #pageContainer, and that white div element is at the top of screen as I am scrolling and I click on "ME", the on click trigger should alert to me that .formContainer is touching the top of #pageContainer at 50px from the top. If, the the red container is just touching the top of #pageContainer, it should say it is 0px from the top.
I hope that helps clear up some misconception.
Here is an updated jsfiddle that shows the kind of action that I want to happen.

I am giving this a stab because I find these things interesting. It might just be a starting point since I have a headache today and am not thinking straight. I'd be willing to bet it can be cleaned up and simplified some.
I also might be over-complicating the approach I took, getting the first visible form, and the positioning. I didn't use the getBoundingClientRect function either.
Instead, I approached it trying to account for padding and margin, using a loop through parent objects up to the pageContent to get the offset relative to that element. Because the form is nested a couple levels deep inside the pageContent element you can't use position(). You also can't use offset() since that changes with scroll. The loop approach allowed me to factor the top margin/padding in. I haven't looked at the other solutions proposed fully so there might be a shorter way to accomplish this.
Keeping in mind that the scale will affect the ACTUAL location of the child elements, you have to divide by your scale percentage when getting the actual location. To do that I moved the scalePercentage to a global var so it was usable by the zoom function and the click.
Here's the core of what I did. The actual fiddle has more logging and junk:
var visForm = getVisibleForm();
var formTop = visForm.position().top;
var parents = visForm.parentsUntil('#pageContent');
var truOffset = 0;
parents.each(function() {
truOffset -= $(this).position().top;
});
// actual location of form relative to pageContent visible pane
var formLoc = truOffset - formTop;
var scaledLoc = formLoc / scalePercent;
Updated Fiddle (forgot to account for scale in get func): http://jsfiddle.net/e6vpq9c8/5/

If I understand your question correctly, what you want is to catch when certain descendant elements reach the top of the outer container, and then determine the position of the visible "page" (div with class formContainer) relative to the top.
If so, the first task is to mark the specific elements that could trigger this:
<div class='triggerElement' style="position:absolute;top:50px;left:100px;width:450px;height:25px;background-color:#fff;color:#000;">When this reaches the top, the "trigger" should say 50px"</div>
Then the code:
// arbitrary horizontal offset - customize for where your trigger elements are placed horizontally
var X_OFFSET = 100;
// determine once, at page load, where outer container is on the page
var outerContainerRect;
$(document).ready(function() {
outerContainerRect = $("#pageContent").get(0).getBoundingClientRect();
});
// when outer container is scrolled
$("#pageContent").scroll(function(e) {
// determine which element is at the top
var topElement = $(document.elementFromPoint(outerContainerRect.left+X_OFFSET, outerContainerRect.top));
/*
// if a trigger element
if (topElement.hasClass("triggerElement")) {
// get trigger element's position relative to page
console.log(topElement.position().top);
}
*/
var page = topElement.closest(".formContainer");
if (page.length > 0) {
console.log(-page.get(0).getBoundingClientRect().top);
}
});
EDIT: Changed code to check formContainer elements rather than descendant elements, as per your comment.
http://jsfiddle.net/j6ybgf58/23/
EDIT #2: A simpler approach, given that you know which formContainer to target:
$("#pageContent").scroll(function(e) {
console.log($(this).scrollTop() - $("#xzOwqphM4GGR_1").position().top);
});
http://jsfiddle.net/rL4Ly3yy/5/
However, it still gives different results based on the size of the window. This seems unavoidable - the zoomProject and resize functions are explicitly resizing the content, so you would have to apply the inverse transforms to the number you get from this code if you want it in the original coordinate system.

I do not fully understand what it is that you are needing, but if i am correct this should do the trick
$("#pageContent").scroll(function(e) {
// If more then 50 pixels from the top has been scrolled
// * if you want it to only happen at 50px, just execute this once by removing the scroll listener on pageContent
if((this.scrollHeight - this.scrollTop) < (this.scrollHeight - 50)) {
alert('it is');
}
});
ScrollHeight is the full height of the object including scrollable pixels.
ScrollTop is the amount of pixels scrolled from the top.

You can use waypoints to detect the position of divs based on where you're scrolling.
Here is a link to their official website's example: http://imakewebthings.com/waypoints/shortcuts/inview/

Slide gallery with image tooltips, images breaking out of unlimited width block

I'm trying to develop a slide gallery with image tooltips according to this design:
What I need to develop is a slider controlled by two buttons, each time a button is pressed the slider's content must move a width of the slider or the width of the content left on that side, whichever is smaller. Upon mouse entering an image inside the slider the full-size version must be displayed as a tooltip.
Here's a fiddle of my solution so far, the problem I'm having is that images that don't fully fit into view plus the hidden area to the left get moved to a new line. You can see the problem by clicking the
"Show content size" button, the width of the content element will be equal to the width of the container element + content element's margin-left.
Bonus points if you can suggest an algorithm for moving the content to the right, I've got left figured out to a T (or so I think, anyway), but right is going to take a little more work (it doesn't check whether the end of the content has been reached). Update: It seems I can't implement proper movement to the right until the other issue is resolved, here's the algorithm I came up with, I can't measure "left to display" if I can't measure the actual width of the content element.

I created something you might like:
gallery demo
The gallery does not scroll the full gallery width by default (you can change that) cause some initially cut-off images at the right side, after a 'full' slide would result cut-off again, just on the other side of our gallery. You have for that cause the beKind variable. Adjust it as you like.
It hides the buttons if there's not enough content to make the gallery usable.
The gallery calculates the remaining space to scroll.
Once the slider end reached - the left/right buttons make the gallery jump to the beginning/end, so that are always usable. (Seems kinda weird to have a button... but that does nothing right? ;) )
The Tooltip has a hover-intent built in, to not piss off our users if they unintentionally hovered our gallery: (the tooltip fades in if the hover is registered for more that 120ms. Fair timing. I like it.)
As pointed out in your comment now the tooltip will not go off the screen.
jQ:
// Slide Kind Gallery - by roXon // non plugin v. // CC 2012.
$(window).load(function(){
var galW = $('#gallery').outerWidth(true),
beKind = 120, // px substracted to the full animation to allow some images to be fully visible - if initially partly visible.
sumW = 0;
$('#slider img').each(function(){
sumW += $(this).outerWidth(true);
});
$('#slider').width(sumW);
if(sumW <= galW){ $('.gal_btn').remove(); }
function anim(dir){
var sliderPos = Math.abs($('#slider').position().left),
rem = dir ==='-=' ? rem = sumW-(sliderPos+galW) : rem = sliderPos,
movePx = rem<=galW ? movePx = rem : movePx = galW-beKind;
if( movePx <= 10){
movePx = dir==='-=' ? movePx=rem : movePx = galW-sumW;
dir = '';
}
$('#slider').stop(1).animate({left: dir+''+movePx },1000);
}
$('.gal_btn').on('click', function(){
var doit = $(this).hasClass('gal_left') ? anim('+=') : anim('-=');
});
});
And the tooltip script:
// Addon // Tooltip script
var $tt = $('#tooltip');
var ttW2 = $tt.outerWidth(true)/2;
var winW = 0;
function getWW(){ winW = $(window).width(); }
getWW();
$(window).on('resize', getWW);
$('#slider img').on('mousemove',function(e){
var m = {x: e.pageX, y: e.pageY};
if( m.x <= ttW2 ){
m.x = ttW2;
}else if( m.x >= (winW-ttW2) ){
m.x = winW-ttW2;
}
$tt.css({left: m.x-ttW2, top: m.y+10});
}).hover(function(){
$clon = $(this).clone();
var t = setTimeout(function() {
$tt.empty().append( $clon ).stop().fadeTo(300,1);
},120);
$(this).data('timeout', t);
},function(){
$tt.stop().fadeTo(300,0,function(){
$(this).hide();
});
clearTimeout($(this).data('timeout'));
});
HTML
(Place the #tooltip div after the body tag)
<div id="tooltip"></div>
<div id="gallery_container">
<div id="gallery">
<div id="slider">
<img src="" alt="" />
<img src="" alt="" />
</div>
</div>
<div class="gal_left gal_btn">◀</div>
<div class="gal_right gal_btn">▶</div>
</div>
CSS:
/*GALLERY*/
#gallery_container{
position:relative;
margin:0 auto;
width:600px;
padding:0 30px; /*for the buttons */
background:#eee;
border-radius:5px;
box-shadow: 0 2px 3px #888;
}
#gallery{
position:relative;
height:100px;
width:600px;
overflow:hidden;
}
#slider{
position:absolute;
left:0px;
height:100px;
}
#slider img{
height:100.999%; /* fixes some MOZ image resize inconsistencies */
float:left;
cursor:pointer;
border-right:3px solid transparent; /* instead of margin that could leat to some wrong widths calculations. */
}
.gal_btn{
position:absolute;
top:0px;
width:30px; /*the container padding */
height:40px;
padding:30px 0;
text-align:center;
font-size:30px;
cursor:pointer;
}
.gal_left{left:0px;}
.gal_right{right:0px;}
/* end GALLERY */
/* TOOLTIP ADDON */
#tooltip{
position:absolute;
z-index:100;
width:300px;
padding:10px;
background:#fff;
background: rgba(255,255,255,0.3);
box-shadow:0px 3px 6px -2px #111;
display:none;
}
#tooltip *{
width:100%;
vertical-align:middle;
}
/* end TOOLTIP ADDON */
Hope you'll like it, and you learned some useful UI design tricks.
By the way, if you want to populate your ALT attributes (Search engines like it!) you can also grab that text and make it appear inside the tooltip like here!:
demo with text inside the tooltip
Happy coding.

I don't know if I understand correctly your problem. If you set a width wide enough to .scroll-content div, images wouldn't go to the "next line". So a solution would be to set a width with css. If not, you could use jquery to determine the total width of all the images and give it to the .scroll-content div. Calculate total width of Children with jQuery

Align Text to Left and Vertically Center in div

I have this JS code that I use to create a new div (I create several, dynamically). I want my text to be in the centered vertically and aligned to the left side of the div. Any suggestions on what to do? Here is my code:
var leftDiv = document.createElement("div"); //Create left div
leftDiv.id = "left"; //Assign div id
leftDiv.setAttribute("style", "float:left;width:70%;vertical-align:middle; height:26px;"); //Set div attributes
leftDiv.style.background = "#FFFFFF";
leftDiv.style.height = 70;
user_name = document.createTextNode(fullName + ' '); //Set user name
One other thing. This code will center the text horizontally and it seems to gravitate to the top of the div instead of the middle.

If the height of div is constant (seems like it is 70px) than you can use line-height: 70px; to render any text vertically centered.

<style type="text/css">
#myoutercontainer { position:relative }
#myinnercontainer { position:absolute; top:50%; height:10em; margin-top:-5em }
</style>
...
...
<div id="myoutercontainer">
<div id="myinnercontainer">
<p>Hey look! I'm vertically centered!</p>
<p>How sweet is this?!</p>
</div>
</div>
Set margin-top:-yy where yy is half the height of the child container to offset the item up.
Source : http://www.vanseodesign.com/css/vertical-centering/

It is not possible to vertical align text inside div with out making it table cell, or you have to insert a span inside div & give it 50% height.
Check below code.
http://jsbin.com/agekuq/edit#preview
<div
id="left"
style="background:red;
display:table-cell;
width:150px;
height:150px;
vertical-align:middle;"
> My full name</div>

Is it possible to position one element relative to another dynamically sized element using only styles?

Is it possible to position one element relative to another specific element using only CSS styles if some of the dimensions are dynamic?
I know I can easily do this with jQuery, but I'm trying to push everything into the stylesheet that I possibly can rather than leaning on javascript.
Here is code that does more or less what I'm trying to accomplish, though I'd like to get rid of the javascript and still have the same effect:
http://jsfiddle.net/EaHU7/
Content:
<div id="reference">
Some text - lorem ipsum, or short, shouldn't matter. See CSS
</div>
<div id="relative">
Relative
</div>
CSS:
div#reference {
min-height:200px; /* could be thousands of pixels */
width:500px;
padding:1em;
border-style:solid;
border-width:1px;
}
div#relative {
width:50px;
height:50px;
padding:1em;
background:orangered;
border-style:solid;
border-left-style:none;
border-width:1px;
}
JS:
var reference = $("div#reference");
var refPos = reference.offset();
var refWidth = reference.outerWidth();
var refHeight = reference.outerHeight();
var relative = $("div#relative");
var relHeight = relative.outerHeight();
relative
.css({
"position":"absolute",
"left":(refPos.left + refWidth) + "px",
"top":(refPos.top + refHeight - relHeight) + "px"
})
.show();
Screenshot:

Yes. There are many ways to do this. you can do it with absolute positioning by placing the orange square within your text div and set its right value to "-50px" and its bottom value to "0px"
div#reference {
position: relative;
}
div#relative {
position: absolute;
right: -50px;
bottom: 0px;
}
and your HTML like this:
<div id="reference">
Some text - lorem ipsum, or short, shouldn't matter. See CSS
<div id="relative">
Relative
</div>
</div>
Try something like this. The orange square should stay at the bottom and to right at all times no matter what the size of the reference div is.

CSS: dynamic width div

I'm coding a slider and I have problems with the stylying of the container.
I have 3 div:
A div that sets the width and height of the slider
A container div with all the content divs (and the scroll for the slider)
Many divthat show different contents each
What I want to do is apply a negative margin on the second div to slide the content.
LIVE example: http://jsbin.com/efuyix/7/edit
JS:
function animate(element) {
var start = new Date();
var id = setInterval(function() {
var timePassed = new Date() - start;
var progress = timePassed / 600;
if (progress > 1) progress = 1;
element.style.marginLeft = -50 * Math.pow(progress, 5)+"px";
if (progress == 1) {
clearInterval(id);
}
}, 10);
}
CSS
.example_path {
overflow: hidden;
width: 50px;
height: 50px;
}
.example_block {
min-width: 100px;
height: 50px;
float:left;
}
.example_in_block {
width: 50px;
height: 50px;
float:left;
}
HTML
<div class="example_path">
<div class="example_block" onclick="animate(this)">
<div class="example_in_block" style="background-color:blue;"></div>
<div class="example_in_block" style="background-color:pink;"></div>
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
</div>
</div>
The problem:
The width of .example_block has to be exactly the same or more than (amount of content divs .example_block * 50 [width size of content div] ) to work.
For example, if I set the width size of the .example_block to 90, the pink div will be below the blue div and not beside it.
I want the container div to be dynamic so I don't have to set the specific width size.
How can I do this?

Simply remove the float:left in the .example_block.
See http://jsbin.com/efuyix/9/edit

Not with negative margins. You can probably set padding on one of the outer DIVs.
Also, min-width isn't going to be backwards compatible with older versions of IE.
Check this example: http://jsfiddle.net/5xBYN/6/
If the initial positioning is good, you can then use negative values on your container DIV (the third DIV) for top, left, right or bottom to achieve sliding.
Update:
Maybe this is closer to what you want. http://jsfiddle.net/5xBYN/7/
I'm still not sure what you are trying to do. Maybe edit the fiddle I posted and update your question with what I'm getting wrong if there is anything.