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jQuery HOTSHOT

You're reading from   jQuery HOTSHOT Ten practical projects that exercise your skill, build your confidence, and help you master jQuery

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849519106
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dan Wellman Dan Wellman
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

jQuery HOTSHOT
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Sliding Puzzle FREE CHAPTER 2. A Fixed Position Sidebar with Animated Scrolling 3. An Interactive Google Map 4. A jQuery Mobile Single-page App 5. jQuery File Uploader 6. Extending Chrome with jQuery 7. Build Your Own jQuery 8. Infinite Scrolling with jQuery 9. A jQuery Heat Map 10. A Sortable, Paged Table with Knockout.js Index

Automating scrolling


At this point, we should be able to click on any of the links in the navigation menu we added to the fixed element, and the page will jump to bring the corresponding section into view. The fixed element will still be fixed into place.

The jump to the section is quite jarring however, so in this task we'll scroll each section into place manually so that the jump to each section is not so sudden. We can also animate the scroll for maximum aesthetic effect.

Engage Thrusters

For this task we should add another event handler, this time for click events on the links in the navigation list, and then animate the page scroll to bring the selected <section> into view.

First, we can add a general function for scrolling the page which accepts some arguments and then performs the scroll animation using those arguments. We should define the function using the following code directly after the one() method that we added in the last task:

function scrollPage(href, scrollAmount, updateHash...
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