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fixed header not getting right classes on scroll after closing fixed sidebar

I have a fixed sidebar and a fixed header with scrollable content in the main section of the page. The header is to be triggered on the scroll to hide the top portion of itself on scroll down and then show itself on scroll up. The sidebar can be triggered to hide and show itself with a button. When this happens the header gains back the full width of the page until the button is pressed to bring back the sidebar. The page loads with the sidebar opened.
So far I've been able to get the sidebar to transition off and back on the page properly. I also have the header working as intended on page load. However the issue I'm having is with the transition, more so recognizing the changed classes when the sidebar closes. I believe my issue is with the scroll javascript not recognizing the sidebar is closed because when scrolling it applies the classes to the header for when the sidebar is open. To test this I added a class called SEEME123 which never shows.
Below is the javascript for scrolling changes.
var exploreOpen = $('#explore').hasClass('open');
var exploreClosed = $('#explore').hasClass('closed');
$(function () {
var position = $(window).scrollTop();
if (exploreOpen) {
$(window).scroll(function () {
var scroll = $(window).scrollTop();
if (scroll > position) {
$('#wrapper-site-header').removeClass('explore-open--header-full');
$('#wrapper-site-header').addClass('explore-open--header-reduced');
} else {
$('#wrapper-site-header').addClass('explore-open--header-full');
$('#wrapper-site-header').removeClass('explore-open--header-reduced');
}
position = scroll;
});
} if (exploreClosed) {
$(window).scroll(function () {
var scroll = $(window).scrollTop();
if (scroll > position) {
$('#wrapper-site-header').removeClass('explore-closed--header-full');
$('#wrapper-site-header').addClass('explore-closed--header-reduced');
$('#wrapper-site-header').addClass('SEEME123');
} else {
$('#wrapper-site-header').addClass('explore-closed--header-full');
$('#wrapper-site-header').removeClass('explore-closed--header-reduced');
}
position = scroll;
});
} else {}
});
The javascript for the sidebar function toggles the open and closed classes on the sidebar, along with removing or adding the appropriate header class.
I don't understand why this isn't working as intended and would like to know how to resolve the issue. I've searched around attempting to understand where I screwed up, or to find an example where the scroll function does X because of Y. I've also attempted the above without variables (ie..
$(function () {
var position = $(window).scrollTop();
if (('#explore').hasClass('open')) {
), and as separate functions.
Anyway, here is a jsfiddle in case I missed something. https://jsfiddle.net/at0yxo0m/
Thank you all for your help and advice.
EDIT: Additional information.
I do have an earlier version of this layout where the scroll function only changes the header area that works with closing the sidebar. However the animations were clunky in general, and worse on mobile. Also to get everything to work right I had to wrap elements more than I thought was needed. So it was my goal to streamline as much as I could while getting the desired result.

Jquery Sticky Nav Issue

I'm been trying to get my head around issue and seem to cant find some help.
http://fiddle.jshell.net/DQgkE/7/show/
The experience is a bit jumpy and buggy now- but what i will like is
1) When you scroll down the page. I want the Sticky Nav to be (disable,dropped off, stop) at a specific location(chapter-3) on the page and the user should have the ability to keep scrolling down.
2) When the user is scrolling back up, the code will stick the nav back and carry it up until the nav reaches the original position at the top.
Below is a starting point.
3) Currently is kinda of doing that but there's some huge jump going on when scrolling back up
http://imakewebthings.com/jquery-waypoints/#doc-disable
using disable, destroy, enable option will be nice.
This is a original experience cleaned: http://fiddle.jshell.net/DQgkE/1/show/
Thanks for the help in Advance.

I'm not sure how this plugin you used work, but I have a solution I wrote a while back that I wrote in jquery. It has few variables at the top, the item you wanted sticky, the item where you want it to stop, and the class to add when it becomes sticky and padding at the top and bottom. I only modified the javascript portion in this fork.
EDIT
I went ahead and fixed the original code. Solution without waypoint plugin is in comments.
Here is the result:
http://fiddle.jshell.net/Taks7/show/

I would recommend to use jQuery (that was a surprise, right?! :P)
$(document).ready(function() { //when document is ready
var topDist = $("nav").position(); //save the position of your navbar !Don't create that variable inside the scroll function!
$(document).scroll(function () { //every time users scrolls the page
var scroll = $(this).scrollTop(); //get the distance of the current scroll from the top of the window
if (scroll > topDist.top - *distance_nav_from_top*) { //user goes to the trigger position
$('nav').css({position:"fixed", width: "100%", top:"*distance_nav_from_top*"}); //set the effect
} else { //window is on top position, reaches trigger position from bottom-to-top scrolling
$('nav').css({position:"static", width:"initial", top:"initial"}); //set them with the values you used before scrolling
}
});
});
I really hope I helped!

So DOM scrollIntoView aligns top/bottom, but what about left/right?

I would like to scroll horizontally the given element. The only way I find is using ScrollIntoView DOM method, which allows either align the element's bottom with the view bottom or the top - with the view top.
But what if the element is OK with respect to the Y axis, and I only want to scroll it horizontally? How can I align its left with the view left or its right with the view right?
EDIT
Here is more context. I have a YUI table with a horizontal scrollbar. I wish to scroll it programmatically to a certain TD node. I do not think window.scrollTo is of any help to me, since the scrollbar is on a div element, not on the whole page.
EDIT2
Turns out there is a duplicate SO question with the right answer - How can I scroll programmatically a div with its own scrollbars?
Voting to close mine.

I've recently had a problem with a table header that had inputs as filters for each column. Tabbing through the filters would move the focus, but if one of the inputs wasn't visible or if it was partly visible, it would only JUST bring the input into view, and I was asked to bring the full input and column into view. And then I was asked to do the same if tabbing backwards to the left.
This link helped to get me started: http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?197612-scrollIntoView-horizontal
The short answer is that you want to use:
document.getElementById('myElement').scrollLeft = 50;
or:
$('#myElement')[0].scrollLeft = 50;
Here's my solution (which may be overkill for this question, but maybe it'll help someone):
// I used $.on() because the table was re-created every time the data was refreshed
// #tableWrapper is the div that limits the size of the viewable table
// don't ask me why I had to move the head head AND the body, they were in 2 different tables & divs, I didn't make the page
$('#someParentDiv').on('focus', '#tableWrapper input', function () {
var tableWidth = $('#tableWrapper')[0].offsetWidth;
var cellOffset = $(this).parent()[0].offsetLeft;
var cellWidth = $(this).parent()[0].offsetWidth;
var cellTotalOffset = cellOffset + cellWidth;
// if cell is cut off on the right
if (cellTotalOffset > tableWidth) {
var difference = cellTotalOffset - tableWidth;
$('#tableWrapper').find('.dataTables_scrollHead')[0].scrollLeft = difference;
$('#tableWrapper').find('.dataTables_scrollBody')[0].scrollLeft = difference;
}
// if cell is cut off on the left
else if ($('#tableWrapper').find('.dataTables_scrollHead')[0].scrollLeft > cellOffset) {
$('#tableWrapper').find('.dataTables_scrollHead')[0].scrollLeft = cellOffset;
$('#tableWrapper').find('.dataTables_scrollBody')[0].scrollLeft = cellOffset;
}
});

This is something I used a while back. There might be better and more efficient way of doing it but this gets the work done:
$(".item").click(function(event){
event.preventDefault();
// I broke it down into variable to make it easier to read
var tgt_full = this.href,
parts = tgt_full.split("#"),
tgt_clean = parts[1],
tgt_offset = $("#"+tgt_clean).offset(),
tgt_left = tgt_offset.left;
$('html, body').animate({scrollLeft:tgt_left}, 1000, "easeInOutExpo");
})
You just need to make sure that the item is an a tag with an href that corresponds to the target id element:
HTML:
go to section 1
...
<section id="one"> Section 1</section>
Hope this helps!

Get Default Height Of Element On Webpage after css height has been applied)

How do I go about getting what the height of an element on a page would be if it ignored the 'height' css property applied to it?
The site I'm working on is http://www.wncba.co.uk/results and the actual script I've got so far is:
jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
document.origContentHeight = $("#auto-resize").outerHeight(true);
refreshContentSize(); //run initially
$(window).resize(function() { //run whenever window size changes
refreshContentSize();
});
});
function refreshContentSize()
{
var startPos = $("#auto-resize").position();
var topHeight = startPos.top;
var footerHeight = $("#footer").outerHeight(true);
var viewportHeight = $(window).height();
var spaceForContent = viewportHeight - footerHeight - topHeight;
if (spaceForContent <= document.origContentHeight)
{
var newHeight = document.origContentHeight;
}
else
{
var newHeight = spaceForContent;
}
$("#auto-resize").css('height', newHeight);
return;
}
[ http://www.wncba.co.uk/results/javascript/fill-page.js ]
What I'm trying to do is get the main page content to stretch to fill the window so that the green lines always flow all the way down the page and the 'Valid HTML5' and 'Designed By' messages are never above the bottom of the window. I don't want the footer to stick to the bottom. I just want it to stay there instead of moving up the page if there's not enough content to fill above to fill it. It also must adapt itself accordingly if the browser window size changes.
The script I've got so far works but there's a small issue that I want to fix with it. At the moment if the content on the page changes dynamically (resulting in the page becoming longer or shorter) the script won't detect this. The variable document.origContentHeight will remain set as the old height.
Is there a way of detecting the height of an element (e.g. #auto-resize in the example) and whether or not it has changed ignoring the height that has been set for it in css? I would then use this to update the variable document.origContentHeight and re-run the script.
Thanks.

I don't think there is a way to detect when an element size changed except using a plugin,
$(element).resize(function() //only works when element = window
but why don't you call refreshContentSize function on page changes dynamically?
Look at this jsFiddle DEMO, you will understand what I mean.
Or you can use Jquery-resize-plugin.

I've got it working. I had to rethink it a bit. The solution is on the live site.
The one think I'd like to change if possible is the
setInterval('refreshContentSize()', 500); // in case content size changes
Is there a way of detecting that the table row has changed size without chacking every 500ms. I tried (#content).resize(function() but couldn't to get it to work.

Dynamically scrolling a DIV layer down when data is loaded

I coded a chat script and I plucking my hair for couple of months to understand how a DIV layer can be scrolled down on loading some data to it using a Databinder with Repreater in ASP.NET with AJAX extensions.
I read a blog today where the author just gave me the logic but not code and I am not an expert in writing highend JavaScripts. Can anybody help me in constructing it.
Get scroll bar position.
If scroll bar position is not bottom then move to bottom.
If scroll bar is scrolled up do no action until new item is loaded to Databinder.
Can anybody provide me with the syntax for the above three please.
Or kindly let me know if there is any other way to get rid of my issue.

You can use scrollTop property in native JS and $(selector).scrollTop() method in jQuery. In both cases you can assign a value to it to change the scroll position of that element.
Example:
document.getElementById("myDiv").scrollTop = 100;
$("#myDiv").scrollTop(100);
EDIT
var div = document.getElementById('myDiv');
var scrollHeight = div.scrollHeight;
var scrollTop = div.scrollTop;
var height = parseInt(div.style.height);
if(scrollHeight - (scrollTop + height) == 0) {
// do something when you're at the bottom
} else {
// do something when you're NOT at the bottom
}