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!
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.
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I have updated all the code, it all should work the way it should now. Thanks for the supports!
The only problem I have found is when you try to resize the page in IE the content frame comes out of place. and is no longer in the middle of the page.
Does it scroll at all? Is the CSS layout display correctly? I guess I have to buy one windows machine...
run into a snag whilst play about with it, after adding 8 panels at 800% mask and12.5% being the items after the 5th items the contents loses its wrapping and by the 6th panel its lost its positioning, only happens in IE7 ?
is this due to how ie treats 100% widths?
do you have any ideas on how i can get round this, as i say it only appears in ie7 and is perfect in firefox/safari
again would like to say what a nice script this is
I have a couple of questions:
- is it possible to combine all of them for one site? e.g. about me page scrolls horizontally, portfolio scrolls vertically, contact me scrolls diagonally?
- how can i put pictures in between the scrolls...some sites that look like it's one big picture and after each click, the site looks like it's scrolling through the big scene to get to the next section...
If you want to have a background image for each section, you can set it to the id i specified in the html, (item1, item2 and item3......). If you have a large background, you can set it to wrapper id.
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