i'm having a problem using the scrolltofixed jquery plugin
https://github.com/bigspotteddog/ScrollToFixed
i use:
$('#tostick').scrollToFixed({ limit: $('#app-footer').offset().top - $('#tostick').height() - 20});
my #tostick is inside a
margin:0 auto
div container and as soon it hits the fixed footer and the script switches from fixed to absolute positioning it jumps out of the container because
left: 1107px
is applied, which is the distance to the left border of the browser window, instead of the left border of the centered div container. it tried to add:
offsetLeft: -$('#container').offset().left
which is completely ignored.
thanks in advance for any tip!
You need to give more info we don't know what #tostick is. Obviously we need the whole JS, and related html and css. Have you tried moving the entire container div it its only purpose is to have a style of margin:0 auto?
Also you can do:
$('#tostick').bind('unfixed', function() { $(this).css('left', ''); });//or what it needs to look right
$('#tostick').bind('fixed', function() { $(this).css('left', '1107px'); });//switch back to what it was
Related
So I have a site that is contained in a wrapper that has a max width. This site also has a fixed side menu that is toggled with a button.
My issue is having the fixed side menu to stay inside the page wrapper as fixed elements are relative to the window not the parent element.
Here is an example using position: fixed: https://jsfiddle.net/okavp4p1/
As you can see the menu is coming out from the side of the viewport, not the wrapper (grey area).
I have found away around this using position: absolute: https://jsfiddle.net/5q3hn1fq/
Here you can see the menu is coming out of the wrapper. (correct)
But I had to write some extra jQuery to spoof fixed positioning on scroll.
// Fix menu
$(window).on('load scroll resize', function() {
navigation.find('ul').css('top', $(window).scrollTop());
});
But doing it this way causes glitches/lag on most web browsers. Though the example isn't to bad when scrolling but when implementing this on an actual site with tons more elements/code it becomes very obvious.
Here is what it looks like in use when scrolling down the page:
I have thought of disabling scrolling when the menu is open but I was just wondering if anyone can help?
there is a work-around for this. you need to create a bar at the top with position:fixed. This bar should have height: 1px and no background-color so you can't see it.
then you can add your navigation inside of there, and float:right. when you float right, it will show up, but will be pinned to the invisible fixed bar at the top. also, you have to give the nav a width of 0 so its invisible. then you can transition its width to 100px or whatever you want on button click.
finally, use jQuery to set its height to the height of the window on resizing of the window, and when you show it.
here's the fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/ahmadabdul3/pptggn6v/1/
since the bar is inside a position:relative bar, it shouldn't jump around as much (or at all)
do NOT add right or left padding to the navigation though, this will break the effect. instead, you can put a container around the nav, and make the nav width: 90% or something so it appears to have some padding.
here's an updated fiddle with how the padding should be: https://jsfiddle.net/ahmadabdul3/pptggn6v/2/
If performance accross all browsers is the issue, you could re-write your function using plain .js instead of jquery.
I couldn't replicate the jittery movement in chrome, but the below should be put less strain on the browser.
$(window).on('load scroll resize', function() {
document.getElementById('nav-list').style.top = window.scrollY + 'px';
});
https://jsfiddle.net/hb4zsL6g/
I have a page where I display a long list of results from a DB query.. and I also show a Google Map to the RIGHT of this long list.
Map is roughly 240px wide and maybe 600px long/height.
This MAP is inside a container DIV (#mapContainer).. that contains the map, and a dropdown box above the map canvas.
Currently, the mapContainer scrolls along with the page itself.. what I would like to do is have it be static/fixed element. So it starts/displays/is placed where I have it currently on the page.... if I scroll the page.. the map should stay fixed.. until the end (bottom) of the results are scrolled to..
(I dont want the mapContainer to scroll and cover the footer element/div)
Following this tutorial:
http://www.webgeekly.com/tutorials/jquery/a-simple-guide-to-making-a-div-static-as-you-scroll-past-it/
It doesnt stay fixed..
//sticky map placement
$(function () {
var msie6 = $.browser == 'msie' && $.browser.version < 7;
if (!msie6) {
console.log("NOT IE 6");
var top = $('#mapContainer').offset().top;
$(window).scroll(function (event) {
console.log("scrolling.......");
var y = $(this).scrollTop();
if (y >= top) {
$('#mapContainer').addClass('fixed');
console.log("class added");
}else {
$('#mapContainer').removeClass('fixed');
console.log("class removed");
}
});
}
});
The first console.log() outputs fine.. but nothign in the window.scroll() portion fires ever.
Rest of code used:
#mapContainer{
display:table;
width:240px;
float:right;
/* sticky map */
position: absolute;
top: 458px;
left: 50%;
/* width: 100px; */
margin-left: 339px;
}
#<span class="skimlinks-unlinked">mapContainer.fixed</span> {
position: fixed;
}
On the tutorials page itself.. he has a toolbar on the left side..
that stops 'being fixed' when you scroll all the way to the top.. (it will start to move with the rest of the page scroll at a certain point).. and it doesnt go all the way down to cover the footer either.
I'm not clear why the jQuery portion isnt firing.. and I'm not clear what that last style is for? (seems odd looking)
All this absolute, fixed, relative, to parent, to viewport..etc.. is confusing.
Any easy to read/follow/understand tutorials that will get me to where I want to be? Or suggestions on what I am doing wrong with the correct approach?
I looked at your Fiddle and noticed a couple things:
Your "fixed" class was not represented in the CSS. When I looked into the CSS I saw a span element wrapping a ".fixed" reference with a position property set.
You are styling the mapContainer div using the ID. This is a very rigid selector as the order of CSS selectors goes. The hierarchy of CSS selectors is specifid and IDs will override types and classes. See: http://htmlhelp.com/reference/css/structure.html
The when scrolling, I am seeing the console logging in my dev tools. Also, when inspecting the element, I am seeing it add and remove the class name.
Based on my observations, modifying the CSS selector for your container should do the trick. Adding the ID to the class will keep the CSS rule specific enough:
#mapContainer.fixed { position: fixed; }
Refer to this updated Fiddle for an example with these changes in place:
http://jsfiddle.net/pmurst8e/4/
Update: For demonstration purposes of what I was referring to with the resize I modified your example a bit. It isn't the prettiest, but it conveys the point: http://jsfiddle.net/pmurst8e/6/
Update: There are a couple issues with the latest Fiddle (v12):
The sidebar will always go fixed the moment you scroll because "top" is never calculated. It's being set to zero, and the offset calculation is commented out.
Absolute positioning is relative to the closest positioned parent. If no parent is positioned, it's relative to the window. To constrain an absolute positioned element, set the constraining parent to "position:relative;".
Instead of using a percentage and left position rule, consider positioning the sidebar to the right, relative to the "contentContainer", by a set number of pixels.
When the fixed position takes effect, we also need to set the sidebar fixed left position. Otherwise, it will use the positioning in the CSS. In contrast to absolute positioning, Fixed positioning is relative to the window, meaning an absolute element "right: 10px" will be 10px from the right of the positioned parent, but will appear 10px from the right of the window when fixed.
You don't need a float when you have absolute positioning. Absolute position removes an element from the normal flow of the document, and because of this float does not apply.
I updated the Fiddle to show how to make these adjustments. I cleaned out the float and margin from the mapContainer and left the absolute positioning. With that I set the contentContainer to relative to constrain mapContainer to it. You will also see, on the script side, I added a line to set the offset of mapContainer. Without this, when it becomes fixed it will be 10px off the right border of the window.
Updated Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/pmurst8e/14/
Also, you want to leave your top offset line in tact. Without that, it goes fixed the moment the scroll moves and never goes back. When that becomes the case, you're better off just setting fixed permanently.
var top = $('#mapContainer').offset().top; // you want this
Regarding the bottom boundary, you can do a couple things:
Resize the sidebar so that it shrinks to the window size. This is demoed in my example from my first post in this and the downside is it forces the sidebar to become a scrollable div so the child content is all visible.
Use a check for the bottom so that when you hit the limit, the container goes back to an absolute position, but one set at the bottom: 0 of the parent.
Something like:
var limit = $('footer').offset().top;
var $mc = $('#mapContainer');
var pos = $mc.offset().top + $mc.outerHeight();
if (pos >= limit) {
$mc.removeClass('fixed')
.addClass('bottom-set').css('left',''); // define this in CSS for bottom absoluteness
}
#mapContainer.bottomFixed {
bottom: 0;
top: auto;
}
And to be fully honest, you might save yourself some time working this all out if you take a look at the ScrollToFixed plug-in (https://github.com/bigspotteddog/ScrollToFixed). I seem to be mentioning it quite a bit lately, but this issue seems to be a popular one right now.
Incidentally, go to your OP and click the Edit button. Shrink the height of your browser and scroll down. You should see SO has a fixed sidebar that passed the footer. ;)
I have <div> elements as pages, and "next" and "back" buttons to switch between them. When the "next" button is clicked, the current page fades out and the next page fades in, using jQuery. As I've been doing it so far, the only way to ensure that the divs sit on top of each other instead of sitting next to each other is to style them position:absolute. However, this forces the divs to also overlay anything else on the page that they would otherwise push out of the way.
Is there any way to make divs basically positioned absolute only relative to each other, and still act as though they are positioned relative to the rest of the page? I've tried putting them inside a container that is positioned relatively, but the divs overflow their container, making it more or less useless.
Edit:
Basic fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/9AXS4/4/
Yes, I mix up $ and jQuery. I've been using jQuery a lot after calling jQuery.noConflict()
If your pages, as you call them, are of fixed width and height, then you can set their container to be position:relative and also have the width and height of the pages..
.container{
position:relative;
width:500px; /*the total width of a page, including padding and borders*/
height:400px; /*the total height of a page, including padding and borders*/
}
This way the container element will handle the pushing around of the other elements
Here is your corrected fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/gaby/9AXS4/2/
(the width/height of the container must account for paddings and border on the page elements)
Also you were targeting the container with .pagecontainer instead of #pagecontainer (since you used an id)
Update (after comment about arbitrary heights..)
Since your pages height is not fixed, you will need to resort to jQuery to resize the container..
Here is a full demo : http://jsfiddle.net/gaby/9AXS4/7/
The divs can't be positioned absolute in relation to each other, but they can be positioned absolutely in relation to an outer div. The container that holds the page divs should have position: relative in order to contain the inner page divs that are absolutely positioned.
If there is unwanted overlap, you can use overflow: hidden or overflow: auto on the outer div to hide it, depending on whether or not you want to allow for scrolling. If you are going to use the overflow property, be sure to include a height and width so the browser knows where the overflow should be.
http://jsfiddle.net/vkTXs/
$(".page").each(function(){
jQuery(this).hide();
});
$(".page").first().show();
$(".next").click(function() {
jQuery(this)
.parent().fadeOut()
.next().fadeIn();
var page = $(this).parent().next();
resizeContainer(page);
});
$(".back").click(function() {
jQuery(this)
.parent().fadeOut()
.prev().fadeIn();
var page = $(this).parent().next();
resizeContainer(page);
});
function resizeContainer(page){
// get height of next page
var newPageHeight = $(page).height();
// add padding and border
newPageHeight = newPageHeight + 14;
$('#pagecontainer').height(newPageHeight);
}
How can I set a "spacer" div to fill remaining height space between CONTENT and FOOTER, so footer will be always at the bottom of the page (not window as originally asked)?
Here is a example where footer is not at the window's bottom: http://template1.staceyapp.com/ (I'm using this template, so structure is the same).
I've tried many things like creating a div and setting it to be min-height, height 100% etc.
Probably Javascript is needed for that.
Are you able to help me setting jQuery to calculate it's height to fill the remaining space?
Is there a better solution?
Many thanks in advance,
Graxa
You can use CSS to position the footer at the bottom of the page.
by using position: fixed or if the footer is contained within another div (container)
set the position of that to relative and the position of your footer to absolute and then specify bottom: 0; for your footer to keep it locked to the bottom of the page.
It sounds like you want a sticky footer, which sits at the bottom of the browser window or at the bottom of the content, whichever happens to be longer.
If that's true, check out: http://ryanfait.com/sticky-footer/
Have you tried to set the footer just to position:fixed on the bottom?
I am using JQuery Tools Scrollable to build a full-page-width scrollable form, such that each page of the form scrolls all the way across the page, replaced by the next page sliding in from the right.
The problem I'm having is how to center each page such that it stays centered amidst browser resizing and in-browser zooming (Ctrl +/-). My code is based upon: http://flowplayer.org/tools/demos/scrollable/site-navigation.html
I've tried encasing my code in a div like this:
<div style="margin-left:-440px; padding-left:50%; width:50%; min-width:880px;">
But, because this div is itself positioned in the middle of the page, the scrolling pages don't slide all the way to the left edge - they cut out at the div's edge about 30% away from left, which looks bad.
The only conclusion I can think of is to dynamically alter the margin-left I've defined on div class="items" to make sure it's always equal to 50% - 440px but no less than 0.
How can I do this using javascript?
is the container div absolute or relative positioned? If it has a specific width, let's say "800px", then centering it horizontally is easy with auto margins on left and right, e.g. margin: 0 auto. Otherwise it gets tricker.
If you want to respond to resize in Javascript, in jquery I do something like $(window).resize(function() {}) (docs here) and inside of the handler function update some value in CSS. If you just want to increase the width but still have auto-margins, you could select your div and update the width property, e.g. $('.mydiv').css('width', '900px');. This would fire any time the window is resized.