Bidirectional scrolling: what’s not to like?
Some baby bear thinking from Adam Silver.…
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How to Make an Unobtrusive Scroll-to-Top Button
A button to return to the top of the page allows the user to quickly return to the top of the page without making too much effort. This can be very useful when the page has a lot of content …
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Doom Damage Flash on Scroll
The video game Doom famously would flash the screen red when you were hit. Chris Johnson not only took that idea, but incorporated a bunch of the UI from Doom into this tounge-in-cheek JavaScript library called Doom Scroller. Get …
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That’s Just How I Scroll
How do you know a page (or any element on that page) scrolls? Well, if it has a scrollbar, that’s a pretty good indication. You might still have to scrapple with your client about “the fold” or whatever, but I …
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Memorize Scroll Position Across Page Loads
Hakim El Hattab tweeted a really nice little UX enhancement for a static site that includes a scrollable sidebar of navigation. …
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How I Put the Scroll Percentage in the Browser Title Bar
Some nice trickery from Knut Melvær.
Ultimately the trick boils down to figuring out how far you’ve scrolled on the page and changing the title to show it, like:
document.title = `${percent}% ${post.title}`Knut’s trick assumes React and installing an …
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Indicating Scroll Position on a Page With CSS
Scrolling is something we all know and do on the web to the extent that it’s an expectation or perhaps even a habit, like brushing our teeth. That’s probably why we don’t put too much thought into designing the scrolling …
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Moving Rainbow Underlines
I absolutely love the design of the Sandwich site. Among many beautiful features are these headlines with rainbow underlines that move as you scroll. It’s not scroll-jacking — it’s just a minor design feature that uses scroll position to …
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Need to scroll to the top of the page?
Perhaps the easiest way to offer that to the user is a link that targets an ID on the <html></html> element. So like…
<html id="top">
<body>
<!-- the entire document -->
<a href="#top">Jump to top of page</a>
</body>
</html>But …
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