How to disable smooth scrolling in Chrome - javascript

I'm creating a web app (that's mostly focused on usage in Chrome), but the 'smooth scrolling' (I guess that's what it's called, the 'extra' scrolling like on IOS) of Chrome (when on mac) gets in the way.
Is there any way to disable this via javascript?

I was able to mitigate some rendering issues I was having with smooth scrolling by intercepting wheel events and moving the scrollTop/scrollLeft pixel positions "by hand":
function wheeled(event) {
event.preventDefault()
container.scrollTop += event.deltaY
container.scrollLeft += event.deltaX
}
container.addEventListener('wheel', wheeled, { passive: false, capture: true })
// actual render code is in the `scrolled` handler because
// there are other wheel events in the code that adjust the scroll position
container.addEventListener('scroll', scrolled, { passive: true })

What you're referring to as smooth scrolling is called overscroll bounce or rubber-band scrolling.
Disable iOS Overscroll but allow body scrolling

Use Javascript to set the CSS style of the HTML and BODY tags.
Set their "overflow" property to "hidden".

Related

Unexpected jump while changing position from absolute to fixed, why?

first of all I want to say that it's not about content jumping!
I have a navbar and a sidebar which both have absolute position. after user scrolls 100 pixels I change both of them to fixed. but an odd action happens (not always!). wrappers of navbar and sidebar flush for a second. I tested it with different browsers and it does not depend on browser. I tried to reproduce the situation in this fiddle:
https://jsfiddle.net/addxmkgj/
(resize the screen as large as possible it happens in large screens)
-- Edit --
https://codepen.io/anon/pen/dJKBPe
codepen link added too.
Causes
Scrolling can generate scroll events quickly and handlers may need to either throttle scroll events to some extent (e.g. perform code action after scrolling has stopped) or be fairly lightweight functions that can execute quickly.
In addition scroll event handling is not synchronized with page update: if the mouse wheel initiates downward scrolling, scrolling can continue after the wheel is released (and similarly with touch event scrolling). The browser can scroll below a top position of 100px before scroll event handling has had a chance to catch up and change the positioning.
The result is the header jumps down from being partially off-screen to occupy a fixed position at top of screen. The faster the scroll action (or the busier the browser is) the more likely it is that jumping will be noticeable.
A secondary effect in desktop browsing is that when the side bar panel scrolls upwards past top of screen and moves down again, a visible patch of white screen "flashes" momentarily below the side bar before fixed positioning takes effect.
Experimental Remedies
Flashing of the side bar can be reduced but not necessarily fully eliminated, by increasing the height of the container. Changing the height to 150% with visible overflow met with some success:
.side-bar {
position: absolute;
height: 150%;
... /* more declarations */
This may or may not conflict with application requirements.
Some mitigation of navbar jumping can be achieved by using requestAnimationFrame call backs to monitor scrollTop values and change positioning as necessary. This does not use scroll event handling as such:
$(document).ready(function() {
$(window).resize(function() {
if( $(window).width() > 850) {
$('.navbar').css('display', 'block');
} else {
$('.navbar').css('display', 'none');
}
});
scrollTo(0, 0);
var num = 100;
var bAbsolute = true;
function checkScroll() {
var newTop = $(window).scrollTop();
if( bAbsolute && newTop >= num) {
$('.navbar').css('position', 'fixed');
$('.navbar').css('top', '0');
$('.side-bar').css('position', 'fixed');
$('.side-bar').css('top', '0');
bAbsolute = false;
}
if( !bAbsolute && newTop < num) {
$('.navbar').css('position', 'absolute');
$('.side-bar').css('position', 'absolute');
$('.navbar').css('top', '100px');
$('.side-bar').css('top', '100px');
bAbsolute = true;
}
requestAnimationFrame( checkScroll);
}
requestAnimationFrame( checkScroll)
});
This code showed an improvement in jump reduction but was not perfect. It is not particularly a JQuery solution and calls requestAnimationFrame directly.
One option, of course, is to do nothing given browser timing constraints.
Update
This MDN guide for Scroll linked effects explains the root cause problem better than I was able to:
most browsers now support some sort of asynchronous scrolling .... the visual scroll position is updated in the compositor thread and is visible to the user before the scroll event is updated in the DOM and fired on the main thread ... This can cause the effect to be laggy, janky, or jittery — in short, something we want to avoid.
So the absolutely positioned elements can scroll off screen (to some extent) before scroll handlers are notified of a new scroll position.
The solution going forward is to use sticky positioning (see the scroll effects guide above or the CSS position guide. However position:sticky swaps between relative and fixed position so the HTML would need redesigning to accommodate this.
Sticky positioning is also leading edge technology at January 2018, and not yet recommended for production use on MDN. A web search for "JQuery support sticky position" revealed a choice of JQuery plugin support.
Recommendation
Potentially the best-case compromise may be to redesign the HTML to use sticky positioning and include a JQuery plugin that uses native support when available or a polyfill when not - site visitors with supporting browsers will get the best experience, those with older browsers will get functional support.

implementing horizontal scrolling with two finger gesture

I am trying to implement horizontal scrolling using a two finger gesture on laptops. I am trying to find a solution that works in IE, chrome and safari. Currently I have tried to using the mouse wheel event to simply capture the scrolling Event. I thought I could use the deltaX and deltaY to determine if it is scrolling vertically and horizontally.
$('#ryan').on('mousewheel', function (event) {
if (event.originalEvent.deltaX > 0) {
console.log(event.originalEvent.deltaX);
console.log("horizontally");
console.log(event.deltaX);
}
Here is a fiddle which is not working. I am also not sure if there is another event I am missing.
I have never done it but jquery has a well documented element handler for scroll
I would try
$('#ryan').scroll(function(event) {
if (event.originalEvent.deltaX > 0) {
console.log(event.originalEvent.deltaX);
console.log("horizontally");
console.log(event.deltaX);
});
http://api.jquery.com/scroll/

Disable scrolling when touch moving certain element

I have a page with a section to sketch a drawing in. But the touchmove events, at least the vertical ones, are also scrolling the page (which degrades the sketching experience) when using it on a mobile browser. Is there a way to either a) disable & re-enable the scrolling of the page (so I can turn it off when each line is started, but turn it back on after each is done), or b) disable the default handling of touchmove events (and presumably the scrolling) that go to the canvas the sketch is drawn in (I can't just disable them completely, as the sketching uses them)?
I've used jquery-mobile vmouse handlers for the sketch, if that makes a difference.
Update: On an iPhone, if I select the canvas to be sketched in, or just hold my finger for a bit before drawing, the page doesn't scroll, and not because of anything I coded in the page.
Set the touch-action CSS property to none, which works even with passive event listeners:
touch-action: none;
Applying this property to an element will not trigger the default (scroll) behavior when the event is originating from that element.
Note: As pointed out in the comments by #nevf, this solution may no longer work (at least in Chrome) due to performance changes. The recommendation is to use touch-action which is also suggested by #JohnWeisz's answer.
Similar to the answer given by #Llepwryd, I used a combination of ontouchstart and ontouchmove to prevent scrolling when it is on a certain element.
Taken as-is from a project of mine:
window.blockMenuHeaderScroll = false;
$(window).on('touchstart', function(e)
{
if ($(e.target).closest('#mobileMenuHeader').length == 1)
{
blockMenuHeaderScroll = true;
}
});
$(window).on('touchend', function()
{
blockMenuHeaderScroll = false;
});
$(window).on('touchmove', function(e)
{
if (blockMenuHeaderScroll)
{
e.preventDefault();
}
});
Essentially, what I am doing is listening on the touch start to see whether it begins on an element that is a child of another using jQuery .closest and allowing that to turn on/off the touch movement doing scrolling. The e.target refers to the element that the touch start begins with.
You want to prevent the default on the touch move event however you also need to clear your flag for this at the end of the touch event otherwise no touch scroll events will work.
This can be accomplished without jQuery however for my usage, I already had jQuery and didn't need to code something up to find whether the element has a particular parent.
Tested in Chrome on Android and an iPod Touch as of 2013-06-18
There is a little "hack" on CSS that also allows you to disable scrolling:
.lock-screen {
height: 100%;
overflow: hidden;
width: 100%;
position: fixed;
}
Adding that class to the body will prevent scrolling.
document.addEventListener('touchstart', function(e) {e.preventDefault()}, false);
document.addEventListener('touchmove', function(e) {e.preventDefault()}, false);
This should prevent scrolling, but it will also break other touch events unless you define a custom way to handle them.
The ultimate solution would be setting overflow: hidden; on document.documentElement like so:
/* element is an HTML element You want catch the touch */
element.addEventListener('touchstart', function(e) {
document.documentElement.style.overflow = 'hidden';
});
document.addEventListener('touchend', function(e) {
document.documentElement.style.overflow = 'auto';
});
By setting overflow: hidden on start of touch it makes everything exceeding window hidden thus removing availability to scroll anything (no content to scroll).
After touchend the lock can be freed by setting overflow to auto (the default value).
It is better to append this to <html> because <body> may be used to do some styling, plus it can make children behave unexpectedly.
EDIT:
About touch-action: none; - Safari doesn't support it according to MDN.
try overflow hidden on the thing you don't want to scroll while touch event is happening. e.g set overflow hidden on Start and set it back to auto on end.
Did you try it ? I'd be interested to know if this would work.
document.addEventListener('ontouchstart', function(e) {
document.body.style.overflow = "hidden";
}, false);
document.addEventListener('ontouchmove', function(e) {
document.body.style.overflow = "auto";
}, false);
I found that ev.stopPropagation(); worked for me.
To my surprise, the "preventDefault()" method is working for me on latest Google Chrome (version 85) on iOS 13.7. It also works on Safari on the same device and also working on my Android 8.0 tablet.
I am currently implemented it for 2D view on my site here:
https://papercraft-maker.com
this worked for me on iphone
$(".owl-carousel").on('touchstart', function (e) {
e.preventDefault();
});
the modern way (2022) of doing this is using pointer events as outlined here in the mozilla docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Pointer_events
Pointer events build on touchstart and other touch events and actually stop scroll events by default along with other improvements.

Is there a way to set the window's scroll position without using scroll() or scrollTo()?

...the reason I ask is that Safari has a bug in its implementation of scroll() that is breaking my UI.
Imagine a page:
<body>
<div id="huge" style="width: 4000px; height: 4000px;"></div>
</body>
...so that you get both horizontal and vertical scrollbars. Now, normally when you press the scrollbar, the page scrolls (vertically). For the purposes of our fancy UI we don't want that to happen, so we squash the keyDown event:
window.onkeydown = function(e) {
if(e.keyCode == 32)
{
return false;
}
};
This works great...unless we decide that instead of preventing scrolling altogether, we want our own, custom scrolling behavior:
window.onkeydown = function(e) {
if(e.keyCode == 32)
{
window.scroll(foo, bar); // Causes odd behavior in Safari
return false;
}
};
In other browsers (Chrome, Firefox), this will instantaneously move the window's scroll position to the desired coordinates. But in Safari this causes the window to animate to the desired scroll position, similar to the scrolling animation that takes place if you press the space bar.
Note that if you trigger this scroll off of any key OTHER than the space bar, the animation does not take place; the window scrolls instantly as in other browsers.
If you happen to be scrolling, say, 1000 pixels or more, then the animated scroll can induce some serious discomfort.
I'm scratching my head trying to find a way around this. I suspect that there isn't one, but I'm hoping some God of Javascript here can suggest something. I'd really like to be able to use the space bar for this command.
If you know where in the document you want to scroll to then you can simply use named anchors. Setting document.location to the anchor (e.g. #top, #div50 or whatever) should be very reliable.
Use document.documentElement.scrollTop = ... (and document.body in some browsers).

Using the mouse wheel to scroll a browser window horizontally

I have a very wide website, intentionally designed to have no vertical scrolling but a lot of horizontal.
Scrolling horizontally is usually a pain to users so was wondering if there was some way of using the middle mouse or other scrolling habits (eg. page up/down, up/down arrows, middle mouse click/drag) to scroll horizontally instead of vertically.
Edit: The main reason for requiring horizontal scrolling is because the layout/approach is a left to right graphical/interactive timeline. I've since found some examples;
This one with MooTools: http://www.tinkainteractive.com.au/ and a few other examples I found at http://naldzgraphics.net/inspirations/40-examples-of-horizontal-scrolling-websites/
You can add your own event listener
document.onmousewheel = myScrollFunction
Scrolling can be done by
window.scrollBy(x, y)
Where x is the horizontal scrolling offset and y the vertical scrolling offset.
So you might just call this function in your event listener. You may have to stop bubbling with event.stopPropagation and prevent browser default behaviour with event.preventDefault so that the original scrolling behaviour doesn't get applied anymore.
Edit: I was curious about this so I implemented something :-)
function onScroll(event) {
// delta is +120 when scrolling up, -120 when scrolling down
var delta = event.detail ? event.detail * (-120) : event.wheelDelta
// set own scrolling offset, take inverted sign from delta (scroll down should scroll right,
// not left and vice versa
var scrollOffset = 10 * (delta / -120);
// Scroll it
window.scrollBy(scrollOffset, 0);
// Not sure if the following two are necessary, you may have to evaluate this
event.preventDefault;
event.stopPropagation;
}
// The not so funny part... fin the right event for every browser
var mousewheelevt=(/Firefox/i.test(navigator.userAgent)) ? "DOMMouseScroll" : "mousewheel";
if (document.attachEvent)
document.attachEvent("on"+mousewheelevt, onScroll);
else if (document.addEventListener)
document.addEventListener(mousewheelevt, onScroll, false);
This works in Firefox 3.5 and Opera 10, however not in IE8. But that would be your part now... ;-)
I wouldn't change this behaviour. It would be very unexpected to the user. Maybe it makes sense to cover the symptom and re-layout your website to switch to a more vertical centered approach?
Still you can do loads of event-handling stuff with java-script, but as said I would rethink the layout.

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