Navigation Scrolling Trapping Primer Tutorial
With our recent interest in hashtag navigation movement (or “event”) trapping we’ve been studying we’ve been concentrating on changes to …
… but there is another whole “layer” of thought in that we can also, and independently, be trapping changes to …
… as an alternative scrolling “event” trapping mechanism. Again, we monitor for this via Javascript’s setTimeout timer functionality, rather than relying on any one defined Javascript event as such.
We present this “scrolling” measurement as a percentage, as for a “vertical scroll” you might think of this percentage as, for example …
- the progression through a slideshow arranged horizontally in an HTML table, looking at the scroll in X percentage … or …
- the amount of a book or article you’ve read, looking at the scroll in Y percentage
And so the monitoring of the scroll dimensions is relatively straightforward, but the necessary width of what to compare against (to arrive at a percentage result), for the example 1 above is not going to be representative if you use the width of document.body, so, respectively, what we compare the (scroll in X,scroll in Y) to in terms if (width,height) are best against …
- (top.document.getElementsByTagName(‘table’)[0], top.document.body)
- (top.document.body, top.document.body)
… because the …
dw="" + eval(top.window.getComputedStyle(document.getElementsByTagName('table')[0], null).getPropertyValue("width").replace('px',''));
… Javascript code caters for all that huge width potential off to the right, that is not factored in with …
dw="" + eval(top.window.getComputedStyle(document.body, null).getPropertyValue("width").replace('px',''));
… more reflecting just the current width of your screen’s web browser window.
We again use the Android toast view look to our HTML div position:absolute opacity:0.3 z-index:8 (à la our usual “overlay” CSS “friends”) element styling used for the display, as its Javascript DOM changes to top and left co-ordinates keep the view of it in front of the user’s eyes as the scrolling procedes, in real time.
Naturally, we’d like to illustrate this in the two “mode of use thoughts as above” so we offer you live runs for …
- horizontal scrolling if you click the “Start of Movie”, as we discussed earlier with Horizontal Hashtag Navigation Trapping Primer Tutorial is shown below
- vertical scrolling is more the go with this checking HTML we wrote for today’s purposes
And today we have a dual mode of use you could see working in that vertical scrolling idea 2 above with the HTML and Javascript programming source code you could call scroll_check.htm …
</textarea></body></html>
… that can have this live run link … featuring (commented out, in addition to the active Javascript DOM invocation of the HTML iframe usage discussed below) both scrolling detection modes of use …
- External Javascript you could call scroll_check.js called via …
<script src="http://www.rjmprogramming.com.au/HTMLCSS/scroll_check.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
… between <head> and </head> … and/or … - HTML and Javascript designed to be called by supervisory code (like scroll_check.htm as above) within an HTML iframe element you could call scroll_check.html accessible via …
<iframe id='iframeshowscrollxy' style='display:none;' src='http://www.rjmprogramming.com.au/HTMLCSS/scroll_check.html'></iframe>
… between <body> and </body> … is more the go with this checking HTML we wrote for today’s purposes
… that both reference top.window or top.document as their point of reference, for all their “scrolling” measurements and display.
Both modes of use offer URL noscrollcheck=y chances to have the scrolling position checking be turned off as you can see with …
- horizontal scrolling (but scroll checking turned off)
- vertical scrolling (but scroll checking turned off)
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With the scrolling information we try to describe percentage scroll positions of the top left of the screen window and also a percentage representation of the bottom right which are arrived at via …
bottom = top + top.window.innerHeight
right = left + top.window.innerWidth
Previous relevant Horizontal Hashtag Navigation Trapping Primer Tutorial is shown below.
Horizontal Hashtag Navigation Trapping Primer Tutorial
Yesterday we got into some hashtag navigation event trapping, after …
- our discovery, during HTML a Tag Navigation Primer Tutorial
- our follow up, during Web Slideshow Like PowerPoint Hashtag Navigation Tutorial
… where that “follow up” was really dealing with “vertical navigation”, which is probably your more natural human idea of web navigation. But what about “horizontal navigation” where the webpage content continues off to the right of your screen, for those of us that read left to right? It should be noted that some languages of the world read right to left, and that is worth considering, should you take up the mantle and use the source code below to continue on with your studies and web application work.
So we applied these thoughts to a recent Ansible and Vagrant Deploys Git and Jenkins Primer Tutorial‘s slideshow presentation to end up with HTML and Javascript you could call horizontal_slideshow.html perhaps, and that changed to cater for horizontal hashtag navigation “event” trapping techniques in this way, and that you can try here, where you can compare the old “@” method versus the new “Start of Movie” horizontal hashtag navigation “event” trapping method, for your perusal and edification.
location.href='#i7'; // navigate to the 8th slide of the slideshow
… as distinct from the (still unchanged) “@” link method where the leftmost “cell” has Javascript DOM slap over it the relevant image data that should happen next for the slideshow to progress forward.
So the new “horizontal navigation” hashtag event trapping uses the same “last three days” way that monitors changes to …
Along the way we try the HTML5 progress element, in preference to the meter element (that we last talked about with HTML/Javascript Staged Animation Meter Presentation Tutorial at this blog), to show you progress through the slideshow when you view it using the new functionality.
So we applied these thoughts to a recent Ansible and Vagrant Deploys Git and Jenkins Primer Tutorial‘s slideshow presentation to end up with HTML and Javascript you could call horizontal_slideshow.html perhaps, and that changed to cater for horizontal hashtag navigation “event” trapping techniques in this way, and that you can try here (and perhaps compare against the old approach here), where you can compare the old “@” method versus the new “Start of Movie” horizontal hashtag navigation “event” trapping method, for your perusal and edification.
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