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.
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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...