Articles Tagged sticky

You know those times you get a horizontal scrollbar when accidentally placing an element off the right edge of the browser window? It might be a menu that slides in or the like. Sometimes we to overflow-x: hidden; on the body to fix that, but that can sometimes wreck stuff like position: sticky;.

Well, you know how if you place an element off the left edge of a browser window, it doesn’t do that? That’s “data loss” and just … Read article “A “new direction” in the struggle against rightward scrolling”

Mike Solomon worked on a fancy scrollytelling post for Esquire and blogged about it. It has GIFs of each step along the way of figuring out not just position: sticky; but also using negative margins, wrapper divs, backgrounds, and even a smidge of JavaScript measuring to get it all right.

What it doesn’t have is any isolated demo of the effect. I figured I’d give a crack at reverse engineering it. … Read article “Getting Fancy with position: sticky;”

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;”

I rather like position: sticky;. It has practical use cases. I think of things like keeping a table of contents in a sidebar of a long article, but as a fairly simple implementation and without risk of overlapping things in awkward ways. But Elad Shechter is right here: it’s not used that much — at least partially — and probably because it’s a bit weird to understand.

I like how Elad explains it with a “Sticky Item” and a … Read article “More Like position: tricky;”