I believe I've seen this done before, but I can't remember where. What I want is to fix text to the top of the screen (like you can do with the nav bar, but I want it to be just a heading text for a section of the site instead of the nav bar), and then when you scroll down to the next section, new heading text bumps it out of the way and stays locked until the next section.
Looking at my design I've uploaded, I'd like "motalife.photography" to be at the top while scrolling through the photography section, and then to get bumped out of the way and have "motalife.design" to be fixed at the top while scrolling through that section. Is it possible?
You might like to read up on "position: sticky":
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/CSS/position
A common use for sticky positioning is for the headings in an alphabetized list. The B heading will appear just below the items that begin with A until they are scrolled offscreen. Rather than sliding offscreen with the rest of the content, the B heading will then remain fixed to the top of the viewport until all the B items have scrolled offscreen, at which point it will be covered up by the C heading, and so on.
From what I've read, it was dropped for a while but has recently been revived. So it may not work in all circumstances, and there are various associated issues you'll want to be aware of. I've just tested it on a div in my current project (including -webkit-sticky and -moz-sticky for good measure), and it seemed to work as described (in FF and Chromium on Mint).
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I am working on building sticky sidebar behavior that will run alongside a vertical feed which is very similar to a facebook feed on desktop web. position: sticky works well for the easy use case where the sidebar is shorter than the height of the viewport. However if your sidebar is larger than the viewport the sidebar needs to have some scrolling mechanism so you can see the bottom of the sidebar as you scroll down the feed.
I am trying to recreate the facebook sidebar sticky scroll here.
The best way to understand the desired behavior is to test out your facebook feed and shrink your screen height so that your viewport is smaller than your sidebar height. I'll try to summarize here:
When your viewport is taller than your sidebar (simple case)
The sidebar behaves exactly as you'd expect with position: sticky. The sidebar stays in the same place and follows as you scroll down and up.
When your viewport is smaller than your sidebar
When you scroll down initially the sidebar scrolls with the feed (they appear fixed together)
When you get to the bottom of your sidebar, it then locks at the bottom and as you scroll down more, the sidebar now appears sticky with the bottom fixed
When you now scroll back up, the sidebar once again appears attached to your main feed, and scrolls up with the main feed. Once you hit the top of the sidebar it's then sticky with the top fixed.
So between those two states (top fixed when scrolling up, bottom fixed when scrolling down), the sidebar scrolls in unison with the main feed.
It's a very nice scrolling experience but very hard to recreate.
I have accomplished the states listed in steps 1-3 above by applying position sticky with a top position, and when you scroll down, using scroll events and some viewport/sidebar height calculations to determine the height difference and adjusting the top css value so it locks when the bottom is lined up with the screen (essentially initialTop - (sidebarHeight - viewportHeight). I cannot figure out steps 4, and 5. The best I could do was transition between the two top values depending on your scroll direction but it's a very bad UX.
I have a sandbox example of a layout here: https://codesandbox.io/s/fragrant-microservice-89b7z?fontsize=14&hidenavigation=1&theme=dark
There's a basic layout with 2 columns (left sidebar and main feed). And there's a react component called StickyScroll which wraps around the column and has all the logic to update the top value. This may be a completely wrong start to a good solution, but any help is greatly appreciated.
I was interested in this as well, so I spent some time studying how fb does it.
It's very clever, my hat off to whichever fb dev originally implemented this.
You have to set the top / bottom css properties on the sticky depending on the direction of scroll, and to keep things from jumping around, you also have to calculate the height of an the element above the sticky, based on scrollTop.
Here is a rough example, which demonstrates the logic in action
I try to make a mock up by your sandbox code based on facebook redesign 2020.
hope you find the answer here. I like this approach because it's not very complex. More precisely, I use the css solution when I have to create a component similar to the Facebook sidebar.So i'm not using your StickyScroll component. Hope you find something.
Codesandbox Independent Scroll
I have a rather complicated layout.
At the top and bottom are fixed header/footer.
The central display is broken up into two panels:
the left panel is hideable (may be visible, may not); if it is visible then it has a fixed width. It has a scroll within it if needed.
the right panel is always visible and has a variable width. It is scrolled by the window's scroll bar.
The right panel then consists of two parts that each fill the width of the panel - a set of tabs, of various heights (the visible tab should start at the top of the right panel, as the controlling buttons for those tabs are in the header), and directly below that a 'summary' box of unknown height, which comes immediately after the visible tab, no matter which tab we are looking at and how high it is.
Each of these panels/tabs/boxes consist of an outer div, and various internal divs as needed for the content.
The tabs are made by an outer div containing four inner divs, one after the other.
I can change the HTML and css as needed.
See https://jsfiddle.net/jvw8j62t/ (with thanks to JavaSpyder who provided the basic JSFiddle that I adapted for this demo)
I have tried various methods for the left and right panel, and the best one seems to be https://stackoverflow.com/a/4676510 but I would be happy to use a different method.
I then use jquery to hide/show the left panel (using display:none) and fix the right panel's left margin accordingly, though I am happy to use a different system for that.
However the tabs have to be made visible/invisible using visibility: visible and visibility: hidden (not display:none), because the contents of the tabs do not size correctly when using display:none. I cannot easily change this as there are three different libraries from three different sources having this issue.
This means that the different tabs' tops are then positioned incorrectly, because of the visibility css - they follow after each other, per https://stackoverflow.com/a/133064/1910690.
If I try different ways to make the top of the all the tabs fall at the top of the right panel then the summary box is positioned wrong and I can't align it to below the visible tab (changing position when you switch to a tab of a different height); or the right panel's scrolling is messed up; or the bottom of the tab disappears behind the footer; or one of several other problems.
Can anyone suggest a solution to the whole layout?
Is this the kind of thing you're looking for?
I used a flex container to create the left and right sections - the header and footer were easy enough with a fixed position. I used flex-shrink:0 on the left section so its width would be fixed, while leaving the right able to change to the screen width.
I'm not sure I did the tabs the way you specified, but feel free to correct if it isn't right. If you click on a tab, it will toggle visibility:hidden , but of course this leaves an empty gap. You said "the tabs have to be made visible/invisible using visibility: visible and visibility: hidden (not display:none), because the contents of the tabs do not size correctly when using display:none." Is this something we can also take a look at, or perhaps post in another question and link it here? If we could fix this problem, it could simplify this layout issue.
The left section is really another fixed position div with overflow:auto to give it the scrollbars. The height is handled by jquery.
Finally, clicking "Toggle Left Panel" will toggle the fixed position div and the width of the left section from 0 or 200.
With thanks to #JavaSpyder for his JSFiddle, and #Dhaval Chheda for the comment that inspired me...
I realised that I could use position:absolute on the tabs - NOT to position the visible tab correctly, but rather to REMOVE the invisible tabs from the layout of the page, leaving the visible tab and the summary ONLY in the layout of the page - and the result is as wanted.
See JavaSpyder's https://jsfiddle.net/JavaSpyder/fq43Lhez/ which also fixes an issue with the width of the right panel (my original solution is at https://jsfiddle.net/jvw8j62t/ ).
Again, thanks to JavaSpyder and Dhaval Chheda - could not have done it without you.
So I apologize in advance if this question has been answered before- I tried searching but couldn't find much on it.
A designer and I are working to create this website- www.zeinal-jundi.com
This is predominantly a one-page layout using a scroll effect to navigate to different sections, although the site's Discography section does link to a separate page for each album. We also have a fixed header that allows the navigation to be visible the whole time. Originally, I had added a margin to each section of the page to accommodate the height of the fixed header. This however made the space between each section far too large, so my designer requested I find a way around this. I was able to fix it by instead adding a value to the scroll animation script that brings the section around 250px from the top, rather than to the overall top of the page (where it would then be covered by the fixed header)
So now, I've of course encountered the issue of linking to these sections from off another page- using code like the following:
Biography
This of course links back to the front page, but brings the section up to the very top, where it is hidden by our header. I'm wondering if anyone knows of a way I can link to this section from another page but add an action similar to the one I have on the scrolling function that will bring it up to 250px down from the top of the page rather than the very top without me having to add margins to each div.
Another option of course it to just make that pesky fixed header a lot shorter, or possibly hide the site title after the page scrolls to a certain point, but our client seems pretty adamant about having the entire header visible throughout, so I of course am trying to find a work around so we won't have to rethink the entire element (if such a solution even exists).
I hope I explained this well enough! Let me know if you need to see any additional code- would love to hear your thoughts on how to achieve such a thing! :)
If you're placing the block through CSS, you can use the CSS3 :target pseudo selector to position whatever section the link pointed to, e.g.:
:target {
/* ... example:
top: 250px;
*/
}
This is my first time posting on here. I've searched for a while for an answer to this question and I'm now turning to this board because it's proven useful to me in the past.
The motif of the page I'm designing is a one page scrolling website (kind of like http://www.kitchensinkstudios.com/).
I've implemented a fixed navigation at the top, about 70px in height. Below this I've created sections that link to the nav. The idea is to click the link in the nav and the page will scroll up to the section chosen. The problem is: due to the automatic nature of internal bookmarks scrolling directly to the top of the page!, this cuts off a majority of the content.
I've attempted to add hidden div's or break tags with padding-top values to the sections in question but, aside from giving me a proper distance from the top of the page, it creates an opaque background with the same value as the padding.
Does anyone have any suggestions for doing this?
Ideally, when you select a link, the section called upon will float up to about the middle of the page.
Much thanks to anyone who gives this one a shot!
The default behavior for browsers is to scroll an anchor to the top of a view port.
If you offset the anchor vertically upwards, you should find it will bring the content down by an equal amount.
You can do this by specifying the position of the anchor as 'relative', and setting the 'top' attribute to a negative value, e.g.
<a style="position:relative; top: -70px;" name="myAnchor"></a>
Some browsers appear to need the anchor taken out of the normal flow, which is solved by simply floating the element.
<a style="float: left; position:relative; top: -70px;" name="myAnchor"></a>
You should find the line above works for FireFox, Chrome and InternetExplorer.
On the following website, www.josecvega.com, I have a navigation bar with years that link to sections on that same page. Unfortunately it is not working they way I hoped, when the user selects a year it moves to the section of the page and puts that section on the top of the page, I have a fixed div on the top of the page that covers the sections and prevents it from properly displaying. What can I do for this to work?
It hard to explain my situation, but it can be seen by going to www.josecvega.com and clicking one of the years.
Put your anchors earlier in the file. Perhaps use a fixed-height element (the same height as your header) in the margin just before each section and apply the anchor to that.
Or use a script run after the jump and scroll back down X pixels.
Or use a frameset to display the fixed header rather than the position:fixed div you are using now.
I would probably do the latter.
your header (class=bannercontainer") is position:fixed
so this element will not scroll.
if you now click on a year it scrolls the page behind the header.
probably position:fixed is not what you want