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Why is the distance between first and last element decreasing?

I'm trying to make an image slider. But as you can see the distance between the first and last element is not consistent. If you keep on dragging to left, the distance decreases and if you keep on dragging to right, the distance increases. Looks like the code is behaving differently on different zoom levels (sometimes?) and hence distance between every elements is changing at times.
//project refers to placeholder rectangular divs
projectContainer = document.querySelector(".project-container")
projects = document.querySelectorAll(".project")
elementAOffset = projects[0].offsetLeft;
elementBOffset = projects[1].offsetLeft;
elementAWidth = parseInt(getComputedStyle(projects[0]).width)
margin = (elementBOffset - (elementAOffset + elementAWidth))
LeftSideBoundary = -(elementAWidth)
RightSideBoundary = (elementAWidth * (projects.length)) + (margin * (projects.length))
RightSidePosition = RightSideBoundary - elementAWidth;
initialPosition = 0; //referring to mouse
mouseIsDown = false
projectContainer.addEventListener("mousedown", e => {
mouseIsDown = true
initialPosition = e.clientX;
})
projectContainer.addEventListener("mouseup", e => {
mouseExit(e)
})
projectContainer.addEventListener("mouseleave", e => {
mouseExit(e);
})
function mouseExit(e) {
mouseIsDown = false
//updates translateX value of transform
projects.forEach(project => {
var style = window.getComputedStyle(project)
project.currentTranslationX = (new WebKitCSSMatrix(style.webkitTransform)).m41
project.style.transform = 'translateX(' + (project.currentTranslationX) + 'px)'
})
}
projectContainer.addEventListener("mousemove", e => {
if (!mouseIsDown) { return };
// adds mousemovement to translateX
projects.forEach(project => {
project.style.transform = 'translateX(' + ((project.currentTranslationX ?? 0) + (e.clientX - initialPosition)) + 'px)'
shiftPosition(e, project)
})
})
//teleports div if it hits left or right boundary to make an infinite loop
function shiftPosition(e, project) {
projectStyle = window.getComputedStyle(project)
projectTranslateX = (new WebKitCSSMatrix(projectStyle.webkitTransform)).m41
//projectVisualPosition is relative to the left border of container div
projectVisualPosition = project.offsetLeft + projectTranslateX
if (projectVisualPosition <= LeftSideBoundary) {
project.style.transform = "translateX(" + ((RightSidePosition - project.offsetLeft)) + "px)"
updateTranslateX(e);
}
if (projectVisualPosition >= RightSidePosition) {
newPosition = -1 * (project.offsetLeft + elementAWidth)
project.style.transform = "translateX(" + newPosition + "px)"
updateTranslateX(e);
}
}
function updateTranslateX(e) {
projects.forEach(project => {
style = window.getComputedStyle(project)
project.currentTranslationX = (new WebKitCSSMatrix(style.webkitTransform)).m41
project.style.transform = 'translateX(' + (project.currentTranslationX) + 'px)'
initialPosition = e.clientX
})
}
*, *::before, *::after{
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
box-sizing: border-box;
font-size:0px;
user-select: none;
}
.project-container{
font-size: 0px;
position: relative;
width:1500px;
height:400px;
background-color: rgb(15, 207, 224);
margin:auto;
margin-top:60px;
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
padding-left:40px;
padding-right:40px;
}
.project{
font-size:100px;
margin:40px;
display: inline-block;
height:300px;
width:350px;
background-color:red;
border: black 3px solid;
user-select: none;
}
<div class="project-container">
<div class="project">1</div>
<div class="project">2</div>
<div class="project">3</div>
<div class="project">4</div>
<div class="project">5</div>
<div class="project">6</div>
<div class="project">7</div>
<div class="project">8</div>
</div>

I'm not sure exactly how you would go about fixing your implementation. I played around with it for a while and discovered a few things; dragging more quickly makes the displacement worse, and the displacement seems to happen mainly when the elements are teleported at each end of the container.
I would guess that the main reason for this is that you are looping over all the elements and spacing them individually. Mouse move events generally happen under 20ms apart, and you are relying on all the DOM elements being repainted with their new transform positions before the next move is registered.
I did come up with a different approach using absolutely placed elements and the IntersectionObserver API, which is now supported in all modern browsers. The idea here is basically that when each element intersects with the edge of the container, it triggers an array lookup to see if the next element in the sequence is on the correct end and moves it there if not. Elements are only ever spaced by a static variable, while the job of sliding them is passed up to a new parent wrapper .project-slider.
window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => {
// Style variables
const styles = {
width: 350,
margin: 40
};
const space = styles.margin*2 + styles.width;
// Document variables
const projectContainer = document.querySelector(".project-container");
const projectSlider = document.querySelector(".project-slider");
const projects = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(".project"));
// Mouse interactions
let dragActive = false;
let prevPos = 0;
projectContainer.addEventListener('mousedown', e => {
dragActive = true;
prevPos = e.clientX;
});
projectContainer.addEventListener('mouseup', () => dragActive = false);
projectContainer.addEventListener('mouseleave', () => dragActive = false);
projectContainer.addEventListener('mousemove', e => {
if (!dragActive) return;
const newTrans = projectSlider.currentTransX + e.clientX - prevPos;
projectSlider.style.transform = `translateX(${newTrans}px)`;
projectSlider.currentTransX = newTrans;
prevPos = e.clientX;
});
// Generate initial layout
function init() {
let workingLeft = styles.margin;
projects.forEach((project, i) => {
if (i === projects.length - 1) {
project.style.left = `-${space - styles.margin}px`;
} else {
i !== 0 && (workingLeft += space);
project.style.left = `${workingLeft}px`;
};
});
projectSlider.currentTransX = 0;
};
// Intersection observer
function observe() {
const callback = (entries, observer) => {
entries.forEach(entry => {
if (entry.isIntersecting) {
// Find intersecting edge
const { left } = entry.boundingClientRect;
const isLeftEdge = left < projectContainer.clientWidth - left;
// Test and reposition next element
const targetIdx = projects.findIndex(project => project === entry.target);
let nextIdx = null;
const nextEl = () => projects[nextIdx];
const targetLeft = parseInt(entry.target.style.left);
const nextLeft = () => parseInt(nextEl().style.left);
if (isLeftEdge) {
nextIdx = targetIdx === 0 ? projects.length-1 : targetIdx - 1;
nextLeft() > targetLeft && (nextEl().style.left = `${targetLeft - space}px`);
} else {
nextIdx = targetIdx === projects.length-1 ? 0 : targetIdx + 1;
nextLeft() < targetLeft && (nextEl().style.left = `${targetLeft + space}px`);
};
};
});
};
const observer = new IntersectionObserver(callback, {root: projectContainer});
projects.forEach(project => observer.observe(project));
};
init();
observe();
});
*, *::before, *::after{
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
box-sizing: border-box;
font-size:0px;
user-select: none;
}
.project-container {
font-size: 0px;
width: 100%;
height: 400px;
background-color: rgb(15, 207, 224);
margin:auto;
margin-top:60px;
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
}
.project-slider {
position: relative;
}
.project {
font-size:100px;
display: block;
position: absolute;
top: 40px;
height:300px;
width:350px;
background-color:red;
border: black 3px solid;
user-select: none;
}
<div class="project-container">
<div class="project-slider">
<div class="project">1</div>
<div class="project">2</div>
<div class="project">3</div>
<div class="project">4</div>
<div class="project">5</div>
<div class="project">6</div>
<div class="project">7</div>
<div class="project">8</div>
</div>
</div>
There is still an issue here which is how to resize the elements for smaller screens, and on browser resizes. You would have to add another event listener for window resizes which resets the positions and styles at certain breakpoints, and also determine the style variables programmatically when the page first loads. I believe this would still have been a partial issue with the original implementation so you'd have to address it at some point either way.

Javascript animation trigger only when reaching a certain part of webpage

I want a counter animation which is triggered only when webpage reaches that certain part. For example, the js file would be this. I want the count to start only when the page reaches that certain section.
const counters = document.querySelectorAll('.counter');
const speed = 200; // The lower the slower
counters.forEach(counter => {
const updateCount = () => {
const target = +counter.getAttribute('data-target');
const count = +counter.innerText;
// Lower inc to slow and higher to slow
const inc = target / speed;
// console.log(inc);
// console.log(count);
// Check if target is reached
if (count < target) {
// Add inc to count and output in counter
counter.innerText = count + inc;
// Call function every ms
setTimeout(updateCount, 1);
} else {
counter.innerText = target;
}
};
updateCount();
});

Yo can easily do it using Jquery
$(document).ready(function() {
$(window).scroll(function() {
if ($(document).scrollTop() > 50) {
$("div").css("background-color", "#111111");
} else {
$("div").css("background-color", "transparent");
}
});
});
div {
height: 120vh;
transition-duration: 0.5s;
}
<div>
Scroll to Change Background
</div>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.0/jquery.min.js"></script>

You can use Intersection Observer to do that
const $observeSection = document.querySelector('#second');
const options = {
root: null,
rootMargin: '0px',
threshold: 0.5
};
const observer = new IntersectionObserver(entries => {
entries.forEach(entry => {
if (entry.intersectionRatio > options.threshold) {
$observeSection.classList.add('yellow');
} else {
$observeSection.classList.remove('yellow');
}
});
}, options);
observer.observe($observeSection);
main {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
}
main section {
width: 100vw;
height: 100vh;
}
#first {
background: red;
}
#second {
background: blue;
}
#third {
background: green;
}
.yellow {
background: yellow!important;
}
<main>
<section id="first"></section>
<section id="second"></section>
<section id="third"></section>
</main>
In this example, I observe the second section, and when the scroll come to the middle of the section (threshold: 0.5), I add a class to change the color of this section.
Be careful if you need to handle legacies browsers as you can see here :
https://caniuse.com/#feat=intersectionobserver

You don't need jquery to achieve this.
Here is a VanillaJS solution:
window.onscroll = (e) => {
e.stopPropagation();
window.pageYOffset > 50 && console.log("do smh");
}

How do I see if one element is touching another in JavaScript without clicking anything

OK so I've tried one thing from a different question and it worked, but not the way I wanted it to. it didn't work the way I wanted it to! You literally had to click when two objects were touching so it would alert you, if somebody can figure out a way to detect if two elements are touching without having to click that would be a life saver! So I hope you people who read this request please respond if you know how. this is the code below. so one object is moving and i want it to make it stop when the object hits the player (i am making a game) the movement is by px.... i want it to keep testing if one object hits the player, and if it does i want it to stop everything.
var boxes = document.querySelectorAll('.box');
boxes.forEach(function (el) {
if (el.addEventListener) {
el.addEventListener('click', clickHandler);
} else {
el.attachEvent('onclick', clickHandler);
}
})
var detectOverlap = (function () {
function getPositions(elem) {
var pos = elem.getBoundingClientRect();
return [[pos.left, pos.right], [pos.top, pos.bottom]];
}
function comparePositions(p1, p2) {
var r1, r2;
if (p1[0] < p2[0]) {
r1 = p1;
r2 = p2;
} else {
r1 = p2;
r2 = p1;
}
return r1[1] > r2[0] || r1[0] === r2[0];
}
return function (a, b) {
var pos1 = getPositions(a),
pos2 = getPositions(b);
return comparePositions(pos1[0], pos2[0]) && comparePositions(pos1[1], pos2[1]);
};
})();
function clickHandler(e) {
var elem = e.target,
elems = document.querySelectorAll('.box'),
elemList = Array.prototype.slice.call(elems),
within = elemList.indexOf(elem),
touching = [];
if (within !== -1) {
elemList.splice(within, 1);
}
for (var i = 0; i < elemList.length; i++) {
if (detectOverlap(elem, elemList[i])) {
touching.push(elemList[i].id);
}
}
if (touching.length) {
console.log(elem.id + ' touches ' + touching.join(' and ') + '.');
alert(elem.id + ' touches ' + touching.join(' and ') + '.');
} else {
console.log(elem.id + ' touches nothing.');
alert(elem.id + ' touches nothing.');
}
}
this is my video game right now (please do not copy)
<!DOCTYPE html>
/
<html>
<form id="player" class="box">
</form>
<button type="button" class="up" onclick="moveup()">^</button>
<button type="button" class="down" onclick="movedown()">v
</button>
<style src="style.css">
#player {
width: 300px;
height: 100px;
background-color: blue;
display: inline-block;
position: relative;
bottom: -250px;
left: 200px;
}
.up {
position: relative;
bottom: -400px;
}
.down {
position: relative;
bottom: -420px;
}
body {
background-color: black;
}
#car {
width: 300px;
height: 100px;
background-color: red;
display: inline-block;
position: relative;
bottom: -250px;
left: 600px;
}
</style>
<form id="car" class="box"></form>
<script>
imgObj = document.getElementById('player');
imgObj.style.position= 'relative';
imgObj.style.bottom = '-250px';
function moveup() {
imgObj.style.position= 'relative';
imgObj.style.bottom = '-250px';
imgObj.style.bottom = parseInt(imgObj.style.bottom) + 70 + 'px';
}
function movedown() {
imgObj.style.position= 'relative';
imgObj.style.bottom = '-250px';
imgObj.style.bottom = parseInt(imgObj.style.bottom) + -120 + 'px';
}
myMove();
function myMove() {
var elem = document.getElementById("car");
var pos = 0;
var id = setInterval(frame, 5);
function frame() {
if (pos == 1000) {
clearInterval(id);
myMove();
} else {
pos++;
elem.style.left = pos + "px";
elem.style.left = pos + "px";
}
}
}
/* please do not copy; this is it so far i want the red box when it hits the player(blue box) to stop everything that is happening */
/* made by Jsscripter; car game */
</script>
</html>

Intersection observer. API was largely developed because of news feeds and infinite scrolling. Goal was to solve when something comes into view, load content. Also is a great fit for a game.
The Intersection Observer API lets code register a callback function
that is executed whenever an element they wish to monitor enters or
exits another element (or the viewport), or when the amount by which
the two intersect changes by a requested amount. This way, sites no
longer need to do anything on the main thread to watch for this kind
of element intersection, and the browser is free to optimize the
management of intersections as it sees fit.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Intersection_Observer_API
All major browsers except safari support the API. For backwards compatibility and Safari support can use the polyfill from W3C found here. Check out this example from MDN:
var callback = function(entries, observer) {
entries.forEach(entry => {
// Each entry describes an intersection change for one observed
// target element:
// entry.boundingClientRect
// entry.intersectionRatio
// entry.intersectionRect
// entry.isIntersecting
// entry.rootBounds
// entry.target
// entry.time
});
};
var options = {
root: document.querySelector('#scrollArea'),
rootMargin: '0px',
threshold: 1.0
}
var observer = new IntersectionObserver(callback, options);
var target = document.querySelector('#listItem');
observer.observe(target);
See this in action here: https://codepen.io/anon/pen/OqpeMV

How can I use requestAnimationFrame along with setInterval?

See the following snippet of code.
It creates a loader on click of a button. But the animation is not smooth.
I have recently read about requestAnimationFrame function which can do this job. But how can I use it to replace setInterval altogether since there is no way to specify time in requestAnimationFrame function.
Can it be used in conjunction with setInterval ?
let idx = 1;
const timetoEnd = 5000;
function ProgressBar(width){
this.width = width || 0;
this.id = `pBar-${idx++}`;
this.create = () => {
let pBar = document.createElement('div');
pBar.id = this.id;
pBar.className = `p-bar`;
pBar.innerHTML = `<div class="loader"></div>`;
return pBar;
};
this.animator = () => {
let element = document.querySelector(`#${(this.id)} div`);
if(this.width < 100){
this.width++;
element.style.width = `${this.width}%`;
} else {
clearInterval(this.interval);
}
};
this.animate = () => {
this.interval = setInterval(this.animator, timetoEnd/100);
}
}
function addLoader (){
let bar1 = new ProgressBar(40);
let container = document.querySelector("#container");
container.appendChild(bar1.create());
bar1.animate();
}
.p-bar{
width: 400px;
height: 20px;
background: 1px solid #ccc;
margin: 10px;
overflow:hidden;
border-radius: 4px;
}
.p-bar .loader{
width: 0;
background: #1565C0;
height: 100%;
}
<input type="button" value="Add loader" onclick="addLoader()" />
<div id="container"></div>

You are right, requestAnimationFrame is the recommended way to avoid UI jam when doing animation.
You can remember the absolute starting time at start instead of trying to do this at each frame. Then it's just a matter of computing a width based on the delta time between start and current time.
Also, document.querySelector is considered a relatively "heavy" operation so I added this.element to avoid doing it at each frame.
Here is how to new width is computed: ((100 - this.startWidth) / timetoEnd) * deltaT + this.startWidth
100 - this.startWidth is the total amount of width we have to animate
(100 - this.startWidth) / timetoEnd is how much width each second must add to (1)
((100 - this.startWidth) / timetoEnd) * deltaT is how much width we have to add to (1)
We just have to shift the whole thing this.startWidth px to have the frame's width
Also notice that some of this computation is constant and do not have to be computed on each frame, which I left as an exercise :)
Here is your slightly adapted code:
let idx = 1;
const timetoEnd = 5000;
function ProgressBar(startWidth){
this.startWidth = startWidth || 0;
this.id = `pBar-${idx++}`;
this.create = () => {
let pBar = document.createElement('div');
pBar.id = this.id;
pBar.className = `p-bar`;
pBar.innerHTML = `<div class="loader"></div>`;
return pBar;
};
this.animator = () => {
const deltaT = Math.min(new Date().getTime() - this.start, timetoEnd);
if(deltaT < timetoEnd){
const width = ((100 - this.startWidth) / timetoEnd) * deltaT + this.startWidth;
this.element.style.width = `${width}%`;
requestAnimationFrame(this.animator.bind(this))
}
};
this.animate = () => {
this.element = document.querySelector(`#${(this.id)} div`);
this.start = new Date().getTime();
this.animator();
}
}
function addLoader (){
let bar1 = new ProgressBar(40);
let container = document.querySelector("#container");
container.appendChild(bar1.create());
bar1.animate();
}
.p-bar{
width: 400px;
height: 20px;
background: 1px solid #ccc;
margin: 10px;
overflow:hidden;
border-radius: 4px;
}
.p-bar .loader{
width: 0;
background: #1565C0;
height: 100%;
}
<input type="button" value="Add loader" onclick="addLoader()" />
<div id="container"></div>

Jump/scroll to #id within a scroll element [duplicate]

I have a div that has overflow: scroll and I have some elements inside the DIV that are hidden. On click of a button on the page, I want to make the DIV scroll to a particular element inside the DIV.
How do I achieve this?

You need to read the offsetTop property of the div you need to scroll to and then set that offset to the scrollTop property of the container div. Bind this function the event you want to :
function scrollToElementD(){
var topPos = document.getElementById('inner-element').offsetTop;
document.getElementById('container').scrollTop = topPos-10;
}
div {
height: 200px;
width: 100px;
border: 1px solid black;
overflow: auto;
}
p {
height: 80px;
background: blue;
}
#inner-element {
background: red;
}
<div id="container"><p>A</p><p>B</p><p>C</p><p id="inner-element">D</p><p>E</p><p>F</p></div>
<button onclick="scrollToElementD()">SCROLL TO D</button>
function scrollToElementD(){
var topPos = document.getElementById('inner-element').offsetTop;
document.getElementById('container').scrollTop = topPos-10;
}
Fiddle : http://jsfiddle.net/p3kar5bb/322/ (courtesy #rofrischmann)

Just improved it by setting a smooth auto scrolling inside a list contained in a div
https://codepen.io/rebosante/pen/eENYBv
var topPos = elem.offsetTop
document.getElementById('mybutton').onclick = function () {
console.log('click')
scrollTo(document.getElementById('container'), topPos-10, 600);
}
function scrollTo(element, to, duration) {
var start = element.scrollTop,
change = to - start,
currentTime = 0,
increment = 20;
var animateScroll = function(){
currentTime += increment;
var val = Math.easeInOutQuad(currentTime, start, change, duration);
element.scrollTop = val;
if(currentTime < duration) {
setTimeout(animateScroll, increment);
}
};
animateScroll();
}
//t = current time
//b = start value
//c = change in value
//d = duration
Math.easeInOutQuad = function (t, b, c, d) {
t /= d/2;
if (t < 1) return c/2*t*t + b;
t--;
return -c/2 * (t*(t-2) - 1) + b;
};
I guess it may help someone :)

Here's a simple pure JavaScript solution that works for a target Number (value for scrollTop), target DOM element, or some special String cases:
/**
* target - target to scroll to (DOM element, scrollTop Number, 'top', or 'bottom'
* containerEl - DOM element for the container with scrollbars
*/
var scrollToTarget = function(target, containerEl) {
// Moved up here for readability:
var isElement = target && target.nodeType === 1,
isNumber = Object.prototype.toString.call(target) === '[object Number]';
if (isElement) {
containerEl.scrollTop = target.offsetTop;
} else if (isNumber) {
containerEl.scrollTop = target;
} else if (target === 'bottom') {
containerEl.scrollTop = containerEl.scrollHeight - containerEl.offsetHeight;
} else if (target === 'top') {
containerEl.scrollTop = 0;
}
};
And here are some examples of usage:
// Scroll to the top
var scrollableDiv = document.getElementById('scrollable_div');
scrollToTarget('top', scrollableDiv);
or
// Scroll to 200px from the top
var scrollableDiv = document.getElementById('scrollable_div');
scrollToTarget(200, scrollableDiv);
or
// Scroll to targetElement
var scrollableDiv = document.getElementById('scrollable_div');
var targetElement= document.getElementById('target_element');
scrollToTarget(targetElement, scrollableDiv);

You need a ref to the div you wish to scroll to inner-div and a ref to the scrollable div scrollable-div:
const scrollToDiv = () => {
const innerDivPos = document.getElementById('inner-div').offsetTop
document
.getElementById('scrollable-div')
.scrollTo({ top: innerDivPos, behavior: 'smooth' })
}
<div id="scrollable-div" style="height:100px; overflow-y:auto;">
<button type="button" style="margin-bottom:500px" onclick="scrollToDiv()">Scroll To Div</button>
<div id="inner-div">Inner Div</div>
</div>