Elements position changing as you scroll to bottom of page - javascript

https://jsfiddle.net/181zpvf2/
I am having some issues getting the <aside> element to stick to the bottom of the #main container when the user scrolls past it.
I have the <aside> element stick to the top once the user starts to scroll past it using the elements offset.top property, but since there is not a offset.bottom property, I am running into some issues figuring out how to get the math to work.
Any thoughts?

There's no offset().bottom but there's offset().top and height(). With that you get offset().bottom.
var offsetTop = $("aside").offset().top;
var offsetBottom = $("aside").offset().top + $("aside").height();
Now, with this you can do your math. Ask if you get stuck :-)

Use offset.top + window.innerHeight. This adds the window height to the offset of the screen so you get the position of the bottom of the screen.
var PositionFromTop = offset.top + window.innerHeight;
document.getElementById('asideElement').style.marginTop = PositionFromTop;

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Fix div when scrolled at its bottom

I have a collapsible aside nav (so don't know the height of it) and a div under it, which should change position to fixed when scrolled at it's bottom.
I achieved this, but when I scroll back at top, the div stays fixed and I can't find solution to make it static again at the point where it was at the beginning, since I don't know where the exact point is.
Here is a fiddle (I explain my solution in js comments): https://jsfiddle.net/1krLnv7q/2/.
Could anybode help me, please? I am stuck.
EDIT
You can define your vars outside of the scroll() event, otherwise it will cause a buggy animation.
Like this
$(function(){
//top offset of static/fixed div
var staticOffset = $('.static').offset().top;
//window height
var wpHeight = $(window).height();
//point when the user scrolls at the bottom of div
//static/fixed div height + top offset - viewport height
var treshold = staticOffset + $('.static').height() - wpHeight;
$(window).scroll(function(){
//if user scrolls below the divs bottom (treshold) it becomes fixed
if ($(window).scrollTop() > treshold){
$('.static').addClass('fix');
}else{
$('.static').removeClass('fix');
}
});
});

CSS dynamic Sticky footer required

I am trying to create an HTML form that is fixed to the bottom of the page. So when the user scrolls down, I want the input box to be fixed to the bottom.
But, when the user scrolls to a certain point (say 70% of the way down the page) I want the form to no longer be sticky, and to move up with the rest of the content.
Anyone got any ideas on how to do this using CSS/jQuery?
$(window).scrollTop() will give you the top position of your view port. You can combine this with the $(document).height() to calculate your % of height your are currently viewing. Based on that set the position to the sticky element
var height = $(document).height();
var topPos = $(window).scrollTop();
var perCentage = topPos/height;
if(perCentage > 0.7){
$('#sticky').css({'position','absolute','top':topPos});
}
else{
$('#sticky').css('position','fixed');
}

JQuery Offset and ScrollTop Problems

I'm trying to fix a elements position based on the scroll position within the window.
I thought it would be as easy as getting the offset of the element where the fixed element should become fixed and then when the window.scrollTop is equal to it add CSS but it is weird.
It seems as though the offset of the element is larger than the scrollTop largest numeral.
Is there any other way of getting this to work?
I want it to have the same functionality as this with regards to the footer on scroll;
http://be.blackberry.com/
But I don't want to clone the element, I want to detect when it gets to near the bottom of the page and then change the position on the bottom of the element.
Thanks in advance.
B
This should help get you in the right direction:
var footer = $("#footer");
// min amount to show when not scrolled to the bottom of the page.
var minVisable = 25;
$(parent.document).scroll(function() {
// check position
if (window.scrollY + window.innerHeight + minVisable > $("html").height()) {
// if at the bottom of the page, stick the footer to it
footer.css("position","absolute").css("top", $("html").height() - footer.height());
} else {
// else keep top part of footer on the screen
footer.css("position","fixed").css("top", window.innerHeight - minVisable );
}
});

How do I easily find the distance between a point on the page and the bottom of the browser window using JavaScript?

A view in my web app has a table which may be extremely long, so I wrapped it in a div with overflow: auto; max-height: 400px; so users can scroll through it while keeping the other controls on the page visible.
I want to use a bit of JavaScript to dynamically adjust the max-height CSS property so the div stretches to the bottom of the browser window. How can I determine this value? jQuery solutions are fine.
The table doesn't start at the top of the page, so I can't just set the height to 100%.
Something like this would work I think:
var topOfDiv = $('#divID').offset().top;
var bottomOfVisibleWindow = $(window).height();
$('#divID').css('max-height', bottomOfVisibleWindow - topOfDiv - 100);
I had a very similar problem, except in my case I had a dynamic pop-up element (a jQuery UI Multiselect widget), to which I wanted to apply a max-height so that it never went below the bottom of the page. Using offset().top on the target element wasn't enough, because that returns the x coordinate relative to the document, and not the vertical scroll-position of the page.
So if the user scrolls down the page, the offset().top won't provide an accurate description of where they are relative to the bottom of the window - you'll need to determine the scroll position of the page.
var scrollPosition = $('body').scrollTop();
var elementOffset = $('#element').offset().top;
var elementDistance = (elementOffset - scrollPosition);
var windowHeight = $(window).height();
$('#element').css({'max-height': windowHeight - elementDistance});
window.innerHeight gives you the visible height of the entire window. I did something almost identical recently so I'm pretty sure that's what you need. :) Let me know, though.
EDIT: You'll still need the Y-value of the overflowed div which you can get by document.getElementById("some_div_id").offsetHeight, seeing that .style.top won't give you a result unless it has been specifically set to a point via CSS. .offsetHeight should give you the correct 'top' value.
Then it's just a matter of setting the size of the table to the window height, minus the 'top' value of the div, minus whatever arbitrary wiggle room you want for other content.
something like max-height: 100%, but not to forget the html and body height 100%.

set height div javascript

I'm adjusting the height of the box with no problems, now I would like to adjust the height of the box grabbing the top handle and adjust height but upwards. What would be a good way of doing this? thanks
(current downwards code)
var mY = event.clientY;
var originalHeight = parseInt(document.getElementById('somediv').style.height);
if(click == 1){ // down
var sY = event.clientY;
var finalHeight = originalHeight +sY-mY;
document.getElementById('somediv').style.height=finalHeight + 'px';
}else{ // up
resize upwards instead of downwards....
}
An element's position is defined by its top-left corner - you'll have to move it up at the same time as you extend it from the bottom.
Resizing a DIV "up" is not as easy as resizing it "down". The reason is that when you specify a HEIGHT, the DIV will expand "down" as its normal flow. The top left corner of the DIV will remain static.
Allowing the DIV to be resized "UP" will give you a lot of issues. In order to do this, you will need to set the HEIGHT, then the POSITION of the DIV to currentHeight - previousHeight. You will notice it will jitter a lot when doing this.
Also, anything above your DIV will need to be displayed accordingly.
You should look into jQuery and the jQuery Dimensions plugin.

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