Chrome Extension Scrollbar Placement - javascript

After dabbling in Chrome Extensions I've noticed that when the data inside the Page Action gets to a certain point the scroll bars automatically attach themselves to the popup, this I expect. However, instead of pushing the content to the left of the scroll bar it overlays the content causing a horizontal scrollbar to become active. I ended up just adding a check on my data and applying a css class to push the content to the left more to run parallel to the scroll bar and beside it not under it. What is the correct way to handle this besides my hackish solution?

I was wondering this myself too. Currently I just don't put anything important closer than 20px to the right side of a popup and disable horizontal scrollbars:
body {overflow-x:hidden;overflow-y:auto;}
So when a vertical scrollbar appears the content at least doesn't jump.

Perhaps you need to specify a width on the scrollbar.
::-webkit-scrollbar {
width: 42px; //Do not know actual width, but I assume you do
}

I haven't found a way to do this that isn't a hack, but here's the simplest hack I could think of:
<script type="text/javascript">
function tweakWidthForScrollbar() {
var db = document.body;
var scrollBarWidth = db.scrollHeight > db.clientHeight ?
db.clientWidth - db.offsetWidth : 0;
db.style.paddingRight = scrollBarWidth + "px";
}
</script>
...
<body onresize="tweakWidthForScrollbar()">
The idea is to detect whether the vertical scrollbar is in use, and if it is, calculate its width and allocate just enough extra padding for it.

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Coudn't scroll to end of the page using window.scrollTo

I am not able to scroll all the way until end. Following code stop working near the end of page.
I have used following methods to scroll programmatically,
// 1 still see scrolling left
window.scrollTo(x,y) > window.scrollTo(window.scrollWidth,0)
window.scrollBy(x,y) >
// 2
scrollingElement.scrollLeft = scrollingElement.scrollWidth - document.documentElement.clientWidth;
Info:
Some width related info for my case,
window.scrollWidth > 6180
scrollingElement.scrollWidth > 6183
document.documentElement.clientWidth > 412
Note: I have used webkitColumnGap css and turned vertical page into horizontal. That's why I have bigger scrollWidth.
If I use following (full scroll) I still see, there is some scrolling left and I can use mouse to scroll that part,
window.scrollTo(window.scrollWidth,0) // go to end
scrollingElement.scrollLeft = <full width> // go to end
// log scroll position for inpection ~ this number does not match the full width
window.scrollX ~ 4k
(window.pageXOffset || doc.scrollLeft) - (doc.clientLeft || 0) ~ 4k
I have run out of ideas so would need help from you guys to find out the issue.
Browser details:
I am using flutter Webview in android device.
Edit:
After lot of trial and error adding following css fixed the issue, I don't why this fixed it?
body {
overflow: hidden !important;
}
Thanks.
You want to scroll to the bottom?
Try this:
var height = document.body.scrollHeight
window.scroll(0, height)
Hope i understood your question correctly
After lot of trial and error adding following css fixed the issue, I don't why this fixed it?
body {
overflow: hidden !important;
}
This means that some of your children elements bled out of its parent container. overflow: hidden tells the browser to cut out the parts that are not fitting inside the body container. That also means that this issue can be solved by changing the size or positioning of the body's children, and that would probably be a better approach to fixing the issue.
By default, overflow is set to visible, and therefore the browser allows you to see (and to scroll) outside of the containing box (overflow property explained)
The !important part tells the browser to artificially increase the specificity of this rule. For more details on specificity: css-tricks/sprecificity

vertically center page around a form

I know vertical center in CSS is a pain to begin with, but I've just made it a bit more complicated. On my page, I have:
<ul id="complete">
</ul>
<form id="new_item_form">
<input type="text" id="add_item" placeholder="Type some tasks here"/>
</form>
<ul id="incomplete">
</ul>
It's for a basic task list. Tasks are added to the incomplete ul, and when completed move to the complete ul. What I want to do via css is have the text field vertically centered on the page and stay there, with the two lists butted up against it. I've been looking at all sorts of vertical alignment (a summary of forms found here: http://blog.themeforest.net/tutorials/vertical-centering-with-css/ ) but I can't seem to find a way that I can figure out how to adapt to allow what I need. How would I accomplish this style of fixed position centering?
EDIT:
Here's an image of what I'm looking for: https://www.dropbox.com/s/i0oit3v84j93b5g/Screen%20Shot%202012-10-11%20at%204.27.16%20PM.png
Is this what you want to obtain?
Of course, my code is a bit sketchy (use of height attribute on tds! Don't scold me to much). But you get the point.
If the height of the table is not known nor fix, but its parent height is known, it won't work (see this example) and you'll have to break it down.
If you just don't know any height at all, it's kind of hard to align...
Further reading on vertical-align
I can't think of any way to do this with CSS, but it's fairly easy to do with JavaScript/jQuery. Here is a working jsFiddle that does what you want on document load. You'd call the code again if you changed the lists, of course.
First, you enclose your lists and form in a div. I called this id="cmiddle". Then you use CSS to set the cmiddle div as position: relative. Then you use JavaScript code to get the enclosing window or frame height, calculate the center for the form, and then, subtract the upper list height to get the correct div position:
$(document).ready(function(e) {
// To work with frames, too
function getParentDocHeight($ele) {
for (;;) {
if (!$ele || !$ele.length) {
return $(window).height();
}
$ele = $ele.parent();
if ($ele.is("frame") || $ele.is("window")) {
return $ele.height();
}
}
}
var $cm = $("#cmiddle");
var formHeight = $("#new_item_form").outerHeight();
var viewHeight = getParentDocHeight($cm)
var formTop = (viewHeight - formHeight) / 2;
var divTop = formTop - $("#complete").outerHeight();
$cm.css("top", divTop);
});
Edit: Kraz was nice enough to add a simulation of adding list items to both lists and calling the code again to recalc. His jsFiddle here.
Well, I'm not sure what you are talking about
But generally,
put the line-height = the div's height. I will create a div around it if necessary
if some very particular situations, i do some math to manually center it
So if you want to centering 1 thing, create a div go around it with line-height = the div's height
And then make the div position: absolute, width, height, ....
Hope this helps

How to keep jQuery function from moving elements all the way to the left?

I was able to implement the solution posted here ("position: fixed and absolute at the same time. HOW?") to get a div element to move with the rest of the page horizontally, but stay fixed vertically. However, this solution causes the selected element to move ALL the way to the left of the page (with what appears to be a 20px margin). I'm still new to javascript and jQuery, but as I understand it, the following:
$(window).scroll(function(){
var $this = $(this);
$('#homeheader').css('left', 20 - $this.scrollLeft());});
takes the selected element and, upon scrolling by the user, affects the CSS of the element so that its position from the left becomes some function of the current scrollbar position adjusted by the 20px margin. If this is correct? And if so, can anyone think of a way that I could change it so that instead of moving the selected element all the way to the left side of the window, we only move it as far left as my default CSS position for the body elements of the HTML document (shown below)?
body {font-size:100%;
width: 800px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-bottom: 20px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
padding-left: 20px;
padding-right: 20px;}
EDIT: Here is a jsfiddle (code here) that I made to illustrate the issue. My page is designed so that when it is displayed in full-screen or near full-screen mode, the #homeheader element appears centered horizontally due to its width and the left and right margins being set to auto. As the page gets smaller and smaller the margins do as well, until they disappear altogether and are replaced by the padding-left and padding-right settings of 20px. So at this point (when the window is small enough that the margins disappear altogether), which is what the jsfiddle shows, the code appears to work as intended, but when the window is full-sized the JS overrides the CSS and pushes the div element all the way to the left (getting rid of the margin) upon any scrolling action.
There are two events you need to handle to get this to work correctly. First is the scroll event which you are pretty close on. The only thing you might want to do is to use offset to get the current left position value based on the document.
The other event which is not yet handled is the resize event. If you don't handle this then once a left position is defined your element (header) will be there always regardless of whether or not the user resizes the window.
Basically something like this should work:
var headeroffset;
var header = $('#homeheader');
// handle scroll
$(window).scroll(function() {
// auto when not defined
if (headeroffset === undefined) {
// capture offset for current screen size
headeroffset = header.offset();
}
// calculate offset
var leftOffset = headeroffset.left - $(this).scrollLeft();
// set left offset
header.css('left', leftOffset);
});
// handle resize
$(window).resize(function() {
// remove left setting
// (this stops the element from being stuck after a resize event
if (header.css('left') !== 'auto') {
header.css('left', '');
headeroffset = undefined;
}
});
JSFiddle example: http://jsfiddle.net/infiniteloops/ELCq7/6/
http://jsfiddle.net/infiniteloops/ELCq7/6/show
This type of effect can be done purely in css however, i would suggest taking a look at the full page app series Steve Sanderson did recently.
http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2011/10/05/full-height-app-layouts-a-css-trick-to-make-it-easier/
As an example you could do something like this:
http://jsfiddle.net/infiniteloops/ELCq7/18/
Try this
$('#homeheader').css('left', parseInt($('body').css('margin-left')) - $this.scrollLeft());});
What I did here is just replace 20 with body's left-margin value.

Always scroll a div element and not page itself

I have a page layout with an inner <div id="content"> element which contains the important stuff on the page. The important part about the design is:
#content {
height: 300px;
width: 500px;
overflow: scroll;
}
Now when the containing text is larger than 300px, I need to be able to scroll it. Is it possible to scroll the <div>, even when the mouse is not hovering the element (arrow keys should also work)?
Note that I don’t want to disable the ‘global’ scrolling: There should be two scrollbars on the page, the global scrollbar and the scrollbar for the <div>.
The only thing that changes is that the inner <div> should always scroll unless it can’t be moved anymore (in which case the page should start scrolling).
Is this possible to achieve somehow?
Edit
I think the problem was a bit confusing, so I’ll append a sequence of how I would like it to work. (Khez already supplied a proof-of-concept.)
The first image is how the page looks when opened.
Now, the mouse sits in the indicated position and scrolls and what should happen is that
First the inner div scrolls its content (Fig. 2)
The inner div has finished scrolling (Fig. 3)
The body element scrolls so that the div itself gets moved. (Fig. 4)
Hope it is a bit clearer now.
(Image thanks to gomockingbird.com)
I don't think that is possible to achieve without scripting it, which could be messy, considering the numerous events which scroll an element (click, scrollwheel, down arrow, space bar).
An option could be using the jQuery scroll plugin. I know it has the availability to create scrollbars on an div. The only thing you need to add yourself is the logic to catch the events when keyboard buttons are pressed. Just check out the keycodes for the arrow keys and make the div scroll down.
The plugin can be found here.
You can use it like this;
<script type="text/javascript">
// append scrollbar to all DOM nodes with class css-scrollbar
$(function(){
$('.css-scrollbar').scrollbar();
})
</script>
here is a solution that might work: (fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/maniator/9sb2a/)
var last_scroll = -1;
$(window).scroll(function(e){
if($('#content').scrollTop());
var scroll = $('#view').data('scroll');
if(scroll == undefined){
$('#content').data('scroll', 5);
scroll = $('#content').data('scroll');
}
else {
$('#content').data('scroll', scroll + 5);
scroll = $('#view').data('scroll');
}
/*
console.log({
'window scroll':$('window').scrollTop(),
'scroll var': scroll,
'view scroll':$('#view').scrollTop(),
'view height':$('#view').height(),
'ls': last_scroll
});
//*/
if(last_scroll != $('#content').scrollTop()){ //check for new scroll
last_scroll = $('#content').scrollTop()
$('#content').scrollTop($('#content').scrollTop() + scroll);
$(this).scrollTop(0);
//console.log(e, 'scrolling');
}
})
It is a bit buggy but it is a start :-)
The only way I believe you can achieve this is through the use of frames.
Frames - W3Schools Reference
If you just want to have a fixed positioned "div" and scroll only it, maybe you could use a trick like:
http://jsfiddle.net/3cpvT/
Scrolling with mouse wheel and all kinds of keys works as expected. Only thing is that the scrollbar is on the document body only.
I found a solution... Not perfect... http://jsfiddle.net/fGjUD/6/.
CSS:
body.noscroll {
position: fixed;
overflow-y: scroll;
width: 100%;
}
JS (jQuery):
if ($("body").height() > $(window).height()) {
var top;
$('#scrolldiv').mouseenter(function() {
top = $(window).scrollTop();
$('body').addClass('noscroll').css({top: -top + 'px'});
}).mouseleave(function() {
$('body').removeClass('noscroll');
$(window).scrollTop(top);
});
}
The text wrapping problem can be solved putting the whole content in fixed-width div. There is another bug for IE browser. If the page has center-aligned backgrond, it will move left-right on mouseenter on #scrolldiv

jScrollPane Scrollbar height relative to div

I have a resizable div which is using custom scrollbars of jScrollPane.
I want to have vertical scrollbar above the resize handle, is it possible to do so?
I tried changing verticalTrackHeight to be always 40 less and bar size reduces too, but when we scroll the scroller goes to the bottom.
Here is my code http://www.jsfiddle.net/WRMSn/4/
It seems like some extra space is somehow being added below the scrollbar. You can use a jspCap to get around this using some code like this:
.jspCapBottom {
display: block;
height: 22px;
}
I added that to your fiddle and it seems to work well:
http://www.jsfiddle.net/UnEqt/
You forgot ; on var pane = $("#container")
It should be var pane = $("#container");

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