I need the page to scroll just so that an element is visible.
Options I've tried:
jQuery's scrollTo: the problem is that the page scrolls so that the element is on top (or at least it tries to do that, much like how this works: <a name="xyz"> / <a href="#xyz">). I want the minimum amount of scrolling, so that the entire element is visible (and, if the element is too tall, work like the anchor there).
scrollIntoView: awful. I want it to scroll smoothly (like $.scrollTo($('#id1'), 'fast');). Also, it doesn't seem to do what I want either.
What you need to do is identify the position within the page of the element, top and bottom (and left/right if you are considering horizontal scrolling). Then identify the current position of the viewport on the window, the scrollTop of the window should then be animated to whatever value will bring the other just in to view.
I just knocked up the following in this editor, so it's untested, but will give you the general idea for a plugin.
Updated - to show version that worked for the OP, as well as a smoother version
jQuery.fn.scrollMinimal = function(smooth) {
var cTop = this.offset().top;
var cHeight = this.outerHeight(true);
var windowTop = $(window).scrollTop();
var visibleHeight = $(window).height();
if (cTop < windowTop) {
if (smooth) {
$('body').animate({'scrollTop': cTop}, 'slow', 'swing');
} else {
$(window).scrollTop(cTop);
}
} else if (cTop + cHeight > windowTop + visibleHeight) {
if (smooth) {
$('body').animate({'scrollTop': cTop - visibleHeight + cHeight}, 'slow', 'swing');
} else {
$(window).scrollTop(cTop - visibleHeight + cHeight);
}
}
};
$('#item').scrollMinimal();
There's a plugin for just what you need
I don't want to copy the code from blog post, because it can get outdated (due to upgrades). But anyway. You can find all details and code about the .scrollintoview() jQuery plugin on blog post.
Usage
Contrary to scrollTo() plugin where you have to provide scrollable element this plugin only requires you to provide the element you'd like to scroll into view. Plugin finds nearest scrollable ancestor (with scrollbars) and scrolls to the element with animation, so user doesn't loose track of their position in the page.
The good thing is also that it won't scroll anything if element is already within visible boundaries of scrollable ancestor.
$("ElementSelector").scrollintoview();
That's it most of the time. But if you need to set some additional settings, there are some you can change and provide custom behaviour:
scrollintoview: function (options) {
/// <summary>Scrolls the first element in the set into view by scrolling its closest scrollable parent.</summary>
/// <param name="options" type="Object">Additional options that can configure scrolling:
/// duration (default: "fast") - jQuery animation speed (can be a duration string or number of milliseconds)
/// direction (default: "both") - select possible scrollings ("vertical" or "y", "horizontal" or "x", "both")
/// complete (default: none) - a function to call when scrolling completes (called in context of the DOM element being scrolled)
/// </param>
/// <return type="jQuery">Returns the same jQuery set that this function was run on.</return>
FYI, jQuery scrolling element into viewport plugins alternative:
intoViewPort plugin
scrollIntoView plugin
Related
I am trying to create an 'application' contained in a div on a web page. This can't be any larger than certain dimensions (lets say: 550px by 280px). I have a menu with at least 1-3 sub menus for each item. The problem is, while I know the submenu is no larger than 280px high, the submenus often extend beyond the parent div's bounds (except for the last one which always grows upward not down).
Is there any way to make the menus grow up or down depending on whether it will extend beyond the div's bounds?
Here is a JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/3FqcG/
Notice how the "Salzburg" submenu grows down beyond the bounds of the black DIV? I want that to grow up if it is too long and down if there is enough room.
Currently, I am just using the basic initialization: $( "#menu" ).menu();
Thanks!
I don't believe you can do this in CSS.
This leaves us with javascript. The basic idea is to:
calculate the baseline of the menu
if this lies outside the boundary
move the menu upwards to correct the position
live almost happily ever after
But, we have one major issue:
Though we capture the focus of an element, we don't know when its submenu is displayed & positioned. So although your problem is technically solved, it is by far not a desirable solution.
UPDATE
The best workaround I could come up with was to:
Turn off the animation (to avoid ugly glitches)
Add a watcher that would constantly monitor the element that is about to be opened
If opened, apply the position correction
Anyway, if you consider coming this far, you might as well override the default positioning of the jquery ui component, with the note that you will not be able to easily update the library. Update: or try Rudy Garcia's version if it works
Demo
Code of the demo:
var BASE_OFFSET = $('#menuContainer').offset().top;
var MAX_OFFSET = $('#menuContainer').height(); // get the offset of the container
var whenVisible = function($el, callback){ //executes callback when $el is visible
if($el.is(':visible')){ // if visible
callback(); // execute callback
}else{ // otherwise
setTimeout(function(){whenVisible($el, callback);},10); // do the same check in 10 ms
}
};
var fixPosition = function($menu){ // correct the position of the menu in respect to #menuContainer
var h = $menu.outerHeight(true); // take the height of the menu
var menuBottom = $menu.offset().top + h - BASE_OFFSET; // the baseline of the menu (taking into consideration the BASE_OFFSET)
if(menuBottom > MAX_OFFSET){ // if this is outside the MAX height
var diff = MAX_OFFSET - menuBottom; // calculate the difference
var newTop = $menu.position().top + diff; // modify current positioning with the calculated diff value
$menu.css('top', newTop + 'px'); // apply it to top (which is also used by jquery to position submenus
}
$.fx.off = false; // switch animations back on
};
$( "#menu" ).menu().on('menufocus', function(ev, ui){ // on the event menufocus
var $ui = $(ui.item); //take the focused element
var $menu = $ui.children('ul'); // take its related submenu
if($menu.length === 0){ // if there is none
return; // just terminate
}
$.fx.off = true; // switch off jQuery effects (otherwise you'll have glitches)
whenVisible($menu, function(){fixPosition($menu);}); // execute fixPosition when $menu is visible
});
You could also look at the API for this widget:
http://api.jqueryui.com/menu/
You can use the position option to position the elements how you want.
This will change the position so that they are within the box, however you will want to dynamically access the last to give it the position you want as the code below will change all menu items to move up 50.
$( "#menu" ).menu({ position: { my: "left top", at: "right+5 top-50" } });
A complete list of positioning options are also found here: http://api.jqueryui.com/position/
Apparently jquery UI has accounted for this and has given the option "within" to make sure your element stays within another element of your choice.
Therefore Your solution should be this:
$( "#menu" ).menu({ position: {within: '#menuContainer' } });
okay heres the scenario. I have a one page website with may sections using anchor links. Whe the user is on a secondary layout (page) and when they click on to go to a section on the main page again, for some reason the graphics dont load properly until a scroll happens. All I want to do is whenever the main layout is loaded, no matter which anchor it loads to, simply scroll the page up or down by 1 pixel.
$.scrollTo({ top: '+=100px', left: '+=0px' }, 800);
I tried the above, but this code simply takes the user 100 pixels from the top. I don't want that to happen, i.e. not from the top but from where ever the user is on screen.
use jquery scrollTop() to set the scroll position to the current scroll position + 1:
$(window).scrollTop($(window).scrollTop()+1);
I have a similar problem. I want to scroll down 1 pixel and then 1 pixel up, so the user hopefully won't notice anything at all. I did this:
window.scrollBy(0, 1); // 0 pixels horizontal and 1 pixel down
window.scrollBy(0, -1); // 0 pixels horizontal and 1 pixel up
UPDATE:
But I might end up using JQuery instead. All I want is the scroll event to fire and I can do that with:
$(window).scroll();
A pure JavaScript solution without the jQuery overhead:
window.scrollY += 100;
With jQuery (and a fancy animation):
var cur = $(window).scrollTop();
$(window).animate({scrollTop: cur + 100});
$("html, body").animate({scrollTop: ($(window).scrollTop() + 1)});
Simple, I just would like to have it so when a user is dragging an item and they reach the very bottom or top of the viewport (10px or so), the page (about 3000px long) gently scrolls down or up, until they move their cursor (and thus the item being dragged) out of the region.
An item is an li tag which uses jquery to make the list items draggable. To be specific:
../jquery-ui-1.8.14.custom.min.js
http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.6.2.min.js
I currently use window.scrollBy(x=0,y=3) to scroll the page and have the variables of:
e.pageY ... provides absolute Y-coordinates of cursor on page (not relative to screen)
$.scrollTop() ... provides offset from top of page (when scroll bar is all the way up, it is 0)
$.height()... provides the height of viewable area in the user's browser/viewport
body.offsetHeight ... height of the entire page
How can I achieve this and which event best accommodates this (currently its in mouseover)?
My ideas:
use a an if/else to check if it is in top region or bottom, scroll up if e.pageY is showing it is in the top, down if e.page& is in bottom, and then calling the $('li').mouseover() event to iterate through...
Use a do while loop... this has worked moderately well actually, but is hard to stop from scrolling to far. But I am not sure how to control the iterations....
My latest attempt:
('li').mouseover(function(e) {
totalHeight = document.body.offsetHeight;
cursor.y = e.pageY;
var papaWindow = window;
var $pxFromTop = $(papaWindow).scrollTop();
var $userScreenHeight = $(papaWindow).height();
var iterate = 0;
do {
papaWindow.scrollBy(0, 2);
iterate++;
console.log(cursor.y, $pxFromTop, $userScreenHeight);
}
while (iterate < 20);
});
Works pretty well now, user just needs to "jiggle" the mouse when dragging items sometimes to keep scrolling, but for scrolling just with mouse position its pretty solid. Here is what I finally ended up using:
$("li").mouseover(function(e) {
e = e || window.event; var cursor = { y: 0 }; cursor.y = e.pageY; //Cursor YPos
var papaWindow = parent.window;
var $pxFromTop = $(papaWindow).scrollTop();
var $userScreenHeight = $(papaWindow).height();
if (cursor.y > (($userScreenHeight + $pxFromTop) / 1.25)) {
if ($pxFromTop < ($userScreenHeight * 3.2)) {
papaWindow.scrollBy(0, ($userScreenHeight / 30));
}
}
else if (cursor.y < (($userScreenHeight + $pxFromTop) * .75)) {
papaWindow.scrollBy(0, -($userScreenHeight / 30));
}
}); //End mouseover()
This won't work as the event only fires while you're mouse is over the li.
('li').mouseover(function(e) { });
You need to be able to tell the position of the mouse relative to the viewport when an item is being dragged. When the users starts to drag an item attach an 'mousemove' event to the body and then in that check the mouse position and scroll when necessary.
$("body").on("mousemove", function(event) {
// Check mouse position - scroll if near bottom or top
});
Dont forget to remove your event when the user stops dragging.
$("body").off("mousemove", function(event) {
// Check mouse position - scroll if near bottom or top
});
This may not be exactly what you want, but it might help. It will auto-scroll when the mouse is over the 'border of the screen' (a user defined region). Say you have a 40px wide bar on the right of the screen, if the mouse reaches the first 1px, it will start scrolling. Each px you move into it, the speed will increase. It even has a nice easing animation.
http://www.smoothdivscroll.com/v1-2.htm
I get a weekly newsletter (email) from CodeProject, and it had some stuff that certainly looks like it will solve my problem... hopefully this can help others:
http://johnpolacek.github.com/scrollorama/ -- JQuery based and animates the scroll
https://github.com/IanLunn/jQuery-Parallax -- JQuery based, similar to above
http:// remysharp. com/2009/01/26/element-in-view-event-plugin/ -- JQuery, detects whether an element is currently in view of the user (super helpful for this issue!)
Also the site in #2 had some interesting code:
var windowHeight = $window.height();
var navHeight = $('#nav').height() / 2;
var windowCenter = (windowHeight / 2);
var newtop = windowCenter - navHeight;
//ToDo: Find a way to use these vars and my original ones to determine scroll regions
This is a followup question for this:
Scrollpane on the bottom, css is hacky, javascript is hard
I ended up doing the scrolling in the same way explained in the accepted answer.
Now there is a request that one item is selected somehow (eg. as an url parameter or by some javascript calls) I should scroll the pane to the item with the corresponding ID in the scrollpane. Like a link to an anchor () would work!
I want to make a javascript call like this
function scrollTo(id) {
$('#middle').magicallyScrollThatItemWouldBeVisible(itemid);
}
But this is not in jQuery (or at least I don't know of it). So is there a way to make it?
I'll post a simple jsFiddle here:
http://jsfiddle.net/ruisoftware/U6QdQ/4/
Help me write that scrollTo function!
A .animate would be fine too.
UPDATE: If it was not clear I would like it to only align to the left or right side of the panel, it it was overflowed on that side (so the minimum possible amount of scrolling happens)
It's not jQuery, just JavaScript, and I've actually never used it all, so I'm not sure how you would have to mess with it to get it to work in this situation, but there is a scrollIntoView function:
yourElement.scrollIntoView();
Since the elements have a fixed width, you can count the number of elements by using .index() + 1, and animate to this value (after subtracting the container's width).
If you want the element to be centered, use - Math.round(middle.width()/100)*50.
Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/U6QdQ/17/
//This code should be run on load / DOMReady
(function($){ //Run on load / DOMReady
$.fn.magicScrollTo = function(){
var middle = $("#middle");
var currentScrollLeft = middle.scrollLeft();
var width = middle.width();
var newScrollLeft = this.offset().left + currentScrollLeft - middle.offset().left;
if(newScrollLeft >= currentScrollLeft && newScrollLeft <= currentScrollLeft + width - this.outerWidth()) return;
if(newScrollLeft > currentScrollLeft){ //If the element is at the right side
newScrollLeft = newScrollLeft - width + this.outerWidth();
}
middle.animate({
scrollLeft: newScrollLeft,
}, 'fast')
}
})(jQuery);
Usage:
//Select the 4rd element, and scroll to it (eq is zero-based):
$('.item').eq(3).magicScrollTo();
Something along these lines would be a good start:
http://jsfiddle.net/vHjJ4/
This will bring the target into the centre of the carousel. I think you will have to add in some extra checks to make sure that it didn't scroll to far, for example if you targeted the first or last element...unless this is built into the scroll function (it might be).
I'm not sure I understand your question exactly, but it sounds like you're asking how to scroll horizontally to the selected item in the bottom pane. If so, try something like this:
//get the position of the element relative to the parent ("middle")
var pos = $("#itemid").position();
if (pos){
$("#middle").scrollLeft(pos.left);
}
From here, you can use the width of middle to center the item if needed.
On The Economist website, there is a horizontal header that only appears after you scroll down the page once. See here:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/asiaview/2010/12/china_and_nobel_peace_prize
What I want is a vertical version of this that would come out of the left or right side of the page and expand over the page content that is already in place.
Anyone know of an existing plugin or how I could build something like that in jQuery?
Here's a simple jQuery plugin that should work for you:
(function($) {
$.fn.scrollToast = function(options) {
var settings = options || {};
var offset = settings.offset;
var toast = settings.toast;
var $toast = $(toast);
var hidden = true;
// prepare the toast:
$toast.css({
display: 'none',
position: 'fixed',
top: '0px',
left: '0px',
zIindex: '1',
overflow: 'hidden'
});
this.bind("scroll", function($event) {
var top = $(this).scrollTop();
if ((top >= offset && hidden) || (top < offset && !hidden)) {
hidden = !hidden;
$toast.animate(
{width: "toggle"});
}
});
};
})(jQuery);
Usage: $(window).scrollToast({toast: "#toast", offset: 50});, where #toast is a selector indicating the element to slide out, and offset is how long you want the user to scroll before the toast appears.
Notes:
Uses CSS position:fixed and an elevated z-index to make the toast element appear on top of other content.
When the target element is scrolled to a value equal to or beyond offset, the toast element is slid out (it is initially hidden).
When the target element is scrolled to a value less than offset the toast element is slid back in.
Could easily be extended to show the toast on the other edge of the screen or the top or bottom.
Will probably work on any scrollable element, but I've used $(window) because it seems to fit the use case you described.
See a working example here: http://jsfiddle.net/andrewwhitaker/56dTA/
Yes, it's pretty easy to build:
You create a:
<div id="hiddenmenu">
This Appears on scrolldown
</div>
This div should be absolute positionend, and display:none;
With the jQuery, on scroll-down you use $('#hiddenmenu').show();
That's pretty much it, if you need the full code, just ask and I'll post it.