It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Hakim El Hattab tweeted a really nice little UX enhancement for a static site that includes a scrollable sidebar of navigation. … Read article “Memorize Scroll Position Across Page Loads”
Some nice trickery from Knut Melvær.
Ultimately the trick boils down to figuring out how far you’ve scrolled on the page and changing the title to show it, like:
document.title = `${percent}% ${post.title}`Knut’s trick assumes React and installing an additional library. I’m sure that library does all kinds of smart stuff, but if you’re looking to do this “vanilla” style, I’d probably rock something like this…… Read article “How I Put the Scroll Percentage in the Browser Title Bar”
Scrolling is something we all know and do on the web to the extent that it’s an expectation or perhaps even a habit, like brushing our teeth. That’s probably why we don’t put too much thought into designing the scrolling experience — it’s a well-known basic function. In fact, the popular “there is no fold” saying comes from the idea that people know how to scroll and there is no arbitrary line that people don’t go under.
Scroll-based features tend … Read article “Indicating Scroll Position on a Page With CSS”
I absolutely love the design of the Sandwich site. Among many beautiful features are these headlines with rainbow underlines that move as you scroll. It’s not scroll-jacking — it’s just a minor design feature that uses scroll position to enact a little movement. … Read article “Moving Rainbow Underlines”
Perhaps the easiest way to offer that to the user is a link that targets an ID on the <html></html> element. So like…
<html id="top">
<body>
<!-- the entire document -->
<a href="#top">Jump to top of page</a>
</body>
</html>But we’ve got a few options here.… Read article “Need to scroll to the top of the page?”
You scroll down to a certain point, now you want to style things in a certain way. A header becomes fixed. An animation triggers. A table of contents appears. To do anything based on scroll position, JavaScript is required right now. You watch the scroll position via a DOM event and alter an element’s styling based on that position. Or, probably better if you can, use IntersectionObserver. We just blogged about all this.
Now there is a new (unofficial) … Read article “Scroll-Linked Animations”
Let’s say you wanted to scroll a web page from top to bottom programmatically. For example, you’re recording a screencast and want a nice full-page scroll. You probably can’t scroll it yourself because it’ll be all uneven and jerky. Native JavaScript can do smooth scrolling. Here’s a tiny snippet that might do the trick for you:
window.scrollTo({
top: document.body.getBoundingClientRect().height,
behavior: 'smooth'
});But there is no way to control the speed or easing of that! It’s likely to … Read article “Smooth Scrolling for Screencasts”
Smooth scrolling has gotten a lot easier. If you want it all the time on your page, and you are happy letting the browser deal with the duration for you, it’s a single line of CSS:
html {
scroll-behavior: smooth;
}I tried this on version 17 of this site, and it was the second most-hated thing, aside from the beefy scrollbar. I haven’t changed the scrollbar. I like it. I’m a big user of scrollbars and making it … Read article “Downsides of Smooth Scrolling”
Rik Schennink documents a system for being able to write CSS selectors that style a page when it has scrolled to a certain point. If you’re like me, you’re already on the lookout for document.addEventListener('scroll' ... and being terrified about performance. Rik gets to that right away by both debouncing the function as well as marking the event as passive.… Read article “Styling Based on Scroll Position”
Any overflow value other than visible and no height is the enemy of child elements with position: sticky;. It’s like that element is ready to stick when the parent scrolls, but it never does because the height is unconstrained. Adding a fixed height can solve the issue, but that’s not always desirable.
Dannie Vinther digs into a way of dealing with that. The end result is avoiding that situation all together by removing the element that wants to be … Read article “Dealing with overflow and position: sticky;”
