Introduction
Content Sliding website is one of the famous and creative design techniques for portfolio website. One thing, please make sure you put the menu on every single page to avoid confusion/dizziness.
- You should put the navigation menu in every single page
- Or, fix the position of the menu
- Let your visitors know exactly what section they're reading, like highlight the selected menu item and have a clear title
In this tutorial, we will learn to scroll your web content vertically, horizontally and plus diagonally! Don't worry, we won't rely on javascript too much, we will use css/html for the layout and javascript only do the scrolling. And hey, it will still work even if your browser doesn't support javascript.
And, thanks to Ariel Flesler, his scrollTo plugin is simply amazing!
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1. HTML
Depend on which direction you want to scroll your website, each of them have slightly different layout. For the horizontal and vertical, they use the same layout, whereas for diagonal, you have to add extra div to create the "diagonal". It sounds like a dirty trick, but hey, it works! :)
I put <a name="name"></a>, just in case some of the browsers out there don't support javascript.
Scroll Horizontally & Vertically
<div id="wrapper"> <div id="mask"> <div id="item1" class="item"> <a name="item1"></a> <div class="content">item1 <a href="#item1" class="panel">1</a> | <a href="#item2" class="panel">2</a> | <a href="#item3" class="panel">3</a> | <a href="#item4" class="panel">4</a> | <a href="#item5" class="panel">5</a> </div> </div> <div id="item2" class="item"> <a name="item2"></a> <div class="content">item2 <a href="#item1" class="panel">back</a></div> </div> <div id="item3" class="item"> <a name="item3"></a> <div class="content">item3 <a href="#item1" class="panel">back</a></div> </div> <div id="item4" class="item"> <a name="item4"></a> <div class="content">item4 <a href="#item1" class="panel">back</a></div> </div> <div id="item5" class="item"> <a name="item5"></a> <div class="content">item5 <a href="#item1" class="panel">back</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="wrapper"> <div id="mask"> <!-- first row --> <div id="item1" class="item"> <a name="item1"></a> <div class="content">item1 <a href="#item1" class="panel">1</a> | <a href="#item2" class="panel">2</a> | <a href="#item3" class="panel">3</a> </div> </div> <div class="item"></div> <div class="item"></div> <div class="clear"></div> <!-- second row --> <div class="item"></div> <div id="item2" class="item"> <a name="item2"></a> <div class="content">item2 <a href="#item1" class="panel">back</a></div> </div> <div class="item"></div> <div class="clear"></div> <!-- third row --> <div class="item"></div> <div class="item"></div> <div id="item3" class="item"> <a name="item3"></a> <div class="content">item3 <a href="#item1" class="panel">back</a></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div> <div id="wrapper"> <div id="mask"> <div id="item1" class="item"> <a name="item1"></a> <div class="content">item1 <a href="#item1" class="panel">1</a> | <a href="#item2" class="panel">2</a> | <a href="#item3" class="panel">3</a> | <a href="#item4" class="panel">4</a> | <a href="#item5" class="panel">5</a> </div> </div> <div id="item2" class="item"> <a name="item2"></a> <div class="content">item2 <a href="#item1" class="panel">back</a></div> </div> <div id="item3" class="item"> <a name="item3"></a> <div class="content">item3 <a href="#item1" class="panel">back</a></div> </div> <div id="item4" class="item"> <a name="item4"></a> <div class="content">item4 <a href="#item1" class="panel">back</a></div> </div> <div id="item5" class="item"> <a name="item5"></a> <div class="content">item5 <a href="#item1" class="panel">back</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="wrapper"> <div id="mask"> <!-- first row --> <div id="item1" class="item"> <a name="item1"></a> <div class="content">item1 <a href="#item1" class="panel">1</a> | <a href="#item2" class="panel">2</a> | <a href="#item3" class="panel">3</a> </div> </div> <div class="item"></div> <div class="item"></div> <div class="clear"></div> <!-- second row --> <div class="item"></div> <div id="item2" class="item"> <a name="item2"></a> <div class="content">item2 <a href="#item1" class="panel">back</a></div> </div> <div class="item"></div> <div class="clear"></div> <!-- third row --> <div class="item"></div> <div class="item"></div> <div id="item3" class="item"> <a name="item3"></a> <div class="content">item3 <a href="#item1" class="panel">back</a></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div>
Scroll Diagonally
<div id="wrapper"> <div id="mask"> <div id="item1" class="item"> <a name="item1"></a> <div class="content">item1 <a href="#item1" class="panel">1</a> | <a href="#item2" class="panel">2</a> | <a href="#item3" class="panel">3</a> | <a href="#item4" class="panel">4</a> | <a href="#item5" class="panel">5</a> </div> </div> <div id="item2" class="item"> <a name="item2"></a> <div class="content">item2 <a href="#item1" class="panel">back</a></div> </div> <div id="item3" class="item"> <a name="item3"></a> <div class="content">item3 <a href="#item1" class="panel">back</a></div> </div> <div id="item4" class="item"> <a name="item4"></a> <div class="content">item4 <a href="#item1" class="panel">back</a></div> </div> <div id="item5" class="item"> <a name="item5"></a> <div class="content">item5 <a href="#item1" class="panel">back</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="wrapper"> <div id="mask"> <!-- first row --> <div id="item1" class="item"> <a name="item1"></a> <div class="content">item1 <a href="#item1" class="panel">1</a> | <a href="#item2" class="panel">2</a> | <a href="#item3" class="panel">3</a> </div> </div> <div class="item"></div> <div class="item"></div> <div class="clear"></div> <!-- second row --> <div class="item"></div> <div id="item2" class="item"> <a name="item2"></a> <div class="content">item2 <a href="#item1" class="panel">back</a></div> </div> <div class="item"></div> <div class="clear"></div> <!-- third row --> <div class="item"></div> <div class="item"></div> <div id="item3" class="item"> <a name="item3"></a> <div class="content">item3 <a href="#item1" class="panel">back</a></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div> <div id="wrapper"> <div id="mask"> <div id="item1" class="item"> <a name="item1"></a> <div class="content">item1 <a href="#item1" class="panel">1</a> | <a href="#item2" class="panel">2</a> | <a href="#item3" class="panel">3</a> | <a href="#item4" class="panel">4</a> | <a href="#item5" class="panel">5</a> </div> </div> <div id="item2" class="item"> <a name="item2"></a> <div class="content">item2 <a href="#item1" class="panel">back</a></div> </div> <div id="item3" class="item"> <a name="item3"></a> <div class="content">item3 <a href="#item1" class="panel">back</a></div> </div> <div id="item4" class="item"> <a name="item4"></a> <div class="content">item4 <a href="#item1" class="panel">back</a></div> </div> <div id="item5" class="item"> <a name="item5"></a> <div class="content">item5 <a href="#item1" class="panel">back</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="wrapper"> <div id="mask"> <!-- first row --> <div id="item1" class="item"> <a name="item1"></a> <div class="content">item1 <a href="#item1" class="panel">1</a> | <a href="#item2" class="panel">2</a> | <a href="#item3" class="panel">3</a> </div> </div> <div class="item"></div> <div class="item"></div> <div class="clear"></div> <!-- second row --> <div class="item"></div> <div id="item2" class="item"> <a name="item2"></a> <div class="content">item2 <a href="#item1" class="panel">back</a></div> </div> <div class="item"></div> <div class="clear"></div> <!-- third row --> <div class="item"></div> <div class="item"></div> <div id="item3" class="item"> <a name="item3"></a> <div class="content">item3 <a href="#item1" class="panel">back</a></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div>
2. CSS
The CSS is basically almost the same with the tabbed based content slider tutorial. I have illustrated how it works in that tutorial, so you might wanna check that out as well.
Scroll Horizontally & Diagonally
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- #mask : height=100%, width = 100% * total of items
- .item : height=100%, width = 100% / total of items
body {
height:100%;
width:100%;
margin:0;padding:0;
}
#wrapper {
width:100%;
height:100%;
position:absolute;
top:0;left:0;
background-color:#ccc;
overflow:hidden;
}
#mask {
width:500%;
height:100%;
background-color:#eee;
}
.item {
width:20%;
height:100%;
float:left;
background-color:#ddd;
}
.content {
width:400px;
height:300px;
top:20%;
margin:0 auto;
background-color:#aaa;
position:relative;
}
.selected {
background:#fff;
font-weight:700;
}
.clear {
clear:both;
}
Scroll Vertically
The width and height are opposite from scrolling horizontally. Calculations are:
- #mask : width=100%, height = 100% * total of items
- .item : width=100%, height = 100% / total of items
#mask {
width:100%;
height:500%;
background-color:#eee;
}
.item {
width:100%;
height:20%;
float:left;
background-color:#ddd;
}
3. Javascript
So, you must be thinking how complicated the javascript would be. You'll be surprise! its only a line of code to make the scrolling effect. Thanks to jquery.scrollTo Plugin. What we have to do is solve the layout using css/html, and the plugin will do the rest.
$(document).ready(function() {
//get all link with class panel
$('a.panel').click(function () {
//reset and highlight the clicked link
$('a.panel').removeClass('selected');
$(this).addClass('selected');
//grab the current item, to be used in resize function
current = $(this);
//scroll it to the destination
$('#wrapper').scrollTo($(this).attr('href'), 800);
//cancel the link default behavior
return false;
});
//resize all the items according to the new browser size
$(window).resize(function () {
//call the resizePanel function
resizePanel();
});
});
This resize function have 2 versions. One for vertical and another for both horizontal and diagonal. The only difference is the mask_height and mask_width.
Verticalfunction resizePanel() {
//get the browser width and height
width = $(window).width();
height = $(window).height();
//get the mask height: height * total of items
mask_height = height * $('.item').length;
//set the dimension
$('#wrapper, .item').css({width: width, height: height});
$('#mask').css({width: width, height: mask_height});
//if the item is displayed incorrectly, set it to the corrent pos
$('#wrapper').scrollTo($('a.selected').attr('href'), 0);
}
Horizontal & Diagonal
function resizePanel() {
//get the browser width and height
width = $(window).width();
height = $(window).height();
//get the mask width: width * total of items
mask_width = width * $('.item').length;
//set the dimension
$('#wrapper, .item').css({width: width, height: height});
$('#mask').css({width: mask_width, height: height});
//if the item is displayed incorrectly, set it to the corrent pos
$('#wrapper').scrollTo($('a.selected').attr('href'), 0);
}
Conclusion
That's it, simple and easy! I hope you all will enjoy it.
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Jump to Certain Item on Page Load
This is one of the most popular request. A lot of people want this content slider to display certain item on page load. It's simple, you need to use this:
$(document).ready(function () {
$('#wrapper').scrollTo('ITEM-ID-HERE', 0);
......
......
......
}
With that line of code, the slider will jump to the item on page load.
Comments will be moderated and
rel="nofollow"will be added to all links. You can wrap your coding with[code][/code]to make use of built-in syntax highlighter.Hi ! Kevin Liew, you did such a great job, and your plugin works perfectly in my web page, but I am wondering if I can combine the drag gesture effect to your plugin, I tried copy both codes into the html, only your plugin works but gesture don't...
here is the gesture plugin made by another guy :
http://www.smoothdivscroll.com/touchScroller.html
Thank you for all this! I have one small issue, though.
My website: http://www.inbrackets.dk/with_the_font_face/index.php appears to have some kind of padding or margin on the items(even though I have padding: 0; and margin: 0; on each of the subpages).
It actually seems, that it is only the last page that doesn't scroll all the way. Once you press "contact", the page will scroll almost all the way, yet it'll not scroll more or less 20 pixels. The content of the contact page under the contact form has darker grey background.
Would you please tell me what's the solution, if you know such?
Great thanks in advance!
Firstly, I love the script! It works real well when all the content is on one page like your demo. But my question is:
I'm developing a site where only 4 of the pages slide. The other pages of the site are dynamic and standalone. My question then is how to link from the static pages back to the sliding panel pages.
I assumed that something like this would work: <a href="index.html#item1">Home - Panel 1</a>
But alas, it didn't. Do you have any tips for us so that we can link back to a specific panel from stand alone pages elsewhere in the site?
Thanks!
Nathan
scrollTo is not a function
$('#wrapper').scrollTo($(this).attr('href'), 800);
when i use scrolling script with jquerysupersize script
To eliminate that message, wrap it with
try {
....
} catch (e) {}
Means i have your diagonally graphic as layout and can target any of these div's?
(pushing the script into contao cms is another story :x )
Thanks so much for this tutorial, it is exactly what I needed! I am having 2 issues though:
1. How do I get the clicked link to highlight a different color once the page has scrolled? Right now, it changes on click, but as soon as it scrolls, it reverts back to a standard link.
2. When I resize my window smaller, the div to the right of the current one overlaps onto the screen. This does not happen on the left side when I resize bigger/smaller, so I'm not sure why it is only happening on the right?
Hope you can help, thanks!