For a new project, I need to make an scroable lightbox like one that open after clicking any image on pinterest. Requirements are:
Lightbox must support HTML contents.
Contents might be more that monitor screen (Fixed width but no limit for height).
Lightbox should not have its independent scrollbars but must use browser's scrollbar like pinterest.
When light box is open, scrolling events should scroll only light box but not the background.
Only Pure Javascript and/or JQuery and/or HTML5/CSS3 solution is acceptable.
I went through quite a few lightbox JS and even JQuery plugins. It seems most support single screen lightbox.
Does some one know any available JS/JQuery plugin to achieve above requirements. If not, is there any tutorials which could help making custom plugin to achieve above requirements.
Thanks in advance,
Kapil.
What you are looking is possible only through HTML/CSS. Use of any Javascript library is just needed to make it easy and JS/JS Lib depends on personal taste.
In terms of main logic, in pintrest, scrolling feature is achieved through CSS property 'overflow-y: scroll'. For overlay (lightbox background), no width/height is defined but CSS properties (top:0;bottom:0;left:0;right:0;) will do the magic.
With above CSS properties (obviously few others for design), scroll feature for lightbox will appear. However you will notice two vertical scrollbars; one for body and other for lightbox. Here the trick is to make body scrollbar disappear. This can be done by giving CSS property ('overflow: hidden') to body when lightbox opens and remove it when it close, which can be done through JS/JS-lib easily. Thus we will have two scrollbars but displaying only one at a time gets the required effect.
Hope this helps.
Use fancybox (together with jQuery):
http://www.fancyapps.com/fancybox/
var options = {/* options*/};
$(".links").fancybox(options);
And if you have a link pointing to html content like this:
<a href='#inline' class='links'>Open fancybox</a>
it will open the fancybox with the content of #inline, e.g.:
<div id='inlines' style='display: none'>
My brilliant fancybox content.
</div>
It uses standard scrollbars and if you make it big enough, the other content cannot be scrolled.
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I wonder how to achieve this effect on http://www.squarespace.com. What I mean is:
you scroll down and at one point the image of computer monitor stays at fixed position
after that, the images keep changing while you scroll.
How can you control content and change CSS using Javascript? It should be on window scroll event:
window.onscroll = function () {
// but I don't know what to use here
}
At smaller browser width, the above elements become a carousel, but I am not interested in that.
Because of the tags on this post I'm going to assume that this question is regarding the skrollr library
Skrollr is controlled via HTML data attributes. What you're seeing when the monitor scrolls, and then becomes fixed at a given position, is referred to as "pinning". How you define data attributes in Skrollr can be pretty confusing at first, but once that is understood, the library is kind of a dream to work with.
I printed and pinned Petr Tichy's cheat sheet next to my monitor the first few weeks of my first skrollr project.
An example of pinning in Skroller would be accomplished as such:
<div id="example"
data-100-top="position:fixed;"
data-anchor-target="#example">
These words are pinned 100px from the top of the screen
</div>
The purpose of Skrollr is that knowledge of jQuery/JavaScript isn't really required. The css is manipulated by the library, and defied in the data elements. The above example shows changing the position to fixed, but if you wanted the div to expand 100px from the top you could input width/height css parameters in there, or just about any other css you'd like.
If you're looking for a more robust skrolling library, in which jQuery knowledge is more of a requirement, I recommend you take a look at ScrollMagic (my lack of reputation prevents me from linking to scrollmagic).
How does this slider reload new content as the page is resized?
http://www.herschelsupply.com/
I stumbled across this whilst shopping and their slider is a good facsimile of what I want to create for my own site. Their slider loads new content at a certain point when the window is resized. I have had troubles doing that using BxSlider because I am new to JS.
More info
The problems I have had are these:
I can use css media query or jQuery to hide certain slides, but they remain in the DOM so the slider still displays them in the pager and sometimes it just stops rotating/breaks.
If I create two different sliders to be loaded at different widths the change does not occur as the page is resized. Also this seems wasteful.
If I remove and replace elements from the DOM on $(window).resize(), I am not sure how to return them to the DOM if the window is resized back and forth continuously.
Overall I am just asking what approach you would take to do this? Im sorry if this is verging more towards discussion than a specific question, but I'm not sure where else to ask.
The website you showed simply has two completely separate slideshows. One is hidden and another is shown when the window resizes.
<div id="slider-one" class="hide-for-mobile">
/*Slider here*/
</div>
<div id="slider-two" class="show-for-mobile">
/*Slider here*/
</div>
Then in your media query for mobile...
.hide-for-mobile {
display: none;
}
.show-for-mobile {
display: block;
}
Now, as for a solution that's more along the lines of what you were trying to do... What you need to do is get away from HTML <img> tags. Instead, your sliding elements should be <div>'s with a CSS background image. In this way, in your media queries you can change the background image of the <div>'s. I am unsure whether or not the slider you are using can support this, some are dependent on sliding an actual HTML <img> tag. Some can slide whatever you want. You should be able to manage what I've described with Flexslider (a quick google search will get you where you need to be).
I am having a hard time looking for a modal box that has a similar functionality as the one on Pinterest.
I am currently using simple-modal (jQuery) but the problems are the height is not dynamic (putting height: auto has some problems) and the modal box's position is fixed at the center. Hence, if the content is long, it will just have a scrollbar on its own (inside the modal box) instead of being scrollable using the browser's main scrollbar. When I use the main browser's scrollbar, it's scrolling the content behind the modal (which is the actual web page) which is not what I intend to happen.
Do you have any suggestions on what to use?
If you right click on a object and open it as a new tab/window, you will then see what Pinterest is overlaying on the main page.
That said, you might achieve the same effect by expanding a full viewport iframe with semi-transparent background to see the underlying page.
To be sure, I've not come across any lightbox clones similar to Pinterest's custom jQuery version hidden somewhere in it's .js file.
Status Update:
If your willing to create your own method, I've outlined a process seen in my SO Answer here
So, I am developing the first serious web site. I want to implement the following scenario, but I need guidance and advice. There is a button <input type="submit"> on my web page. When the user clicks it, I want it to open some HTML content which will be shown on top of all page content (and positioned centrally, but I don't care about that detail at the moment). It should act very similar to the way the photos are viewed on Facebook. When the user clicks the photo thumbnail, the photo opens on top of and across all page content.
Now, I've implemented this already, but I think that my approach is not recommendable, as it looks a bit clumsy to me, especially when I think about the maintenance of the site:
I added a <div> as the last element to the <body>; it is positioned absolutely and collapsed and serves as a container. When the button is clicked, that <div> is filled with the content and the state is changed from collapsed to visible.
I would very much appreciate if someone would like to share the standard methods used to achieve this effect and opinions . I am guessing that AJAX and jQuery should be used heavily for this (I used pure JavaScript in my design described previously). I am looking for some code samples and resources. Thank you so much.
What you are looking for is a modal dialog and not a pop-up. Pop-ups are new windows, while modals are HTML elements that block the page behind it for emphasis on forward content.
One way is to have a <div> appended to the body, usually to the end of the body and have it positioned absolute. That div will have top, bottom, left and right zero to stretch to fit the viewport. Within that div is another div that is also positioned absolute, relative to the parent, viewport-fitting div. Positioning is up to you, but usually it's centered using a formula:
center = (total length - modal length)/2
Content is up to you. You can have the content already loaded and hidden in the DOM which you can just display later. Or load the content via AJAX if you wish.
jQuery already has a modal plugin in the jQueryUI suite which you can use that packs a lot of methods to add and customize.
There are a lot of approaches out there. You could use jQuery UI (http://jqueryui.com). But I like the approach Twitter's Bootstrap is taking: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/javascript.html#modals
This is a very clean setup and you can load the content via AJAX with a little selfwritten function. You don't need to write everything yourself because there are plenty of plugins out there. And the bootstrap modal plugin is standalone so you can just use this one.
I like to use it and generate the content div with an AJAX request.
You can position: absolute; the popup box and set it where on the screen you want it. Then use z-index to put it over the content.
Here is a demo: http://jsfiddle.net/e6BEu/
I believe what you're looking for might be Lightbox-like? It could give you some ideas at the very least.
Edit: Or this one which supports text and such.
I'm looking for a solid cross-browser Jquery custom scroll bar plugin that plays nice with iframes. Does anyone have a nice plugin and a solution?
Depends greatly on the context:
Do you want to create an iframe with styled scrollbars that other people can place on their site?
Or are you trying to style someone else's content which is placed on your site via iframe?
If you have control over the content of the iframe, then it's an easy thing to do.
I've used http://livepipe.net/ with success.
Custom scrollbars typically work by placing content in a , then moving that element relative to a parent div by javascript.
EDIT 1:
This is the detail page. Just start editing the values. http://livepipe.net/control/scrollbar
You'll know you have it right when loading your page not in an iframe, the fancy scrollbars are 100% the height of your browser viewport no matter the height.
It might also be worth adding a function to recalculate the height of the objects & the positioning of the bottom control on window resize. Although, that's easier to do with jQuery than in PrototypeJS.
EDIT 2:
Here's a working example I cooked up:
http://pastebin.com/gvtnLANQ
Try this really cool plugin. It helps eliminate the need for a scroll bar: https://github.com/Ashwell/jquery-scrollThis