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Last updated: 10 Dec 2007
Absolute Floating Menu
Many web pages don't fit on most users' screens. The visitors have to scroll to read the page contents.
Such scrolling however hides the navigation menus usually located at the top of the page.The javascript shown here allows to create dynamic menus which move along with scrolling. Such menu will be always visible. The effect is achieved my moving an absolutely-positioned DIV containing the menu code.
The floating menu will visibly move towards the specified viewing area spot, slowing as it moves closer to it and finishing the move with a visible snap. Such animation will definitely draw user attention to the floating menu. Fixed & Sticky Menu will pin the menu to the spot if the browser supports it, moving it if not. Script demonstration
Look for the floating box somewhere on the page.Click the buttons to move the floating menu to different corners: Script source code
To use the script perform the following steps:
<div id="floatdiv" style="
position:absolute;
width:200px;height:50px;left:0px;top:0px;
padding:16px;background:#FFFFFF;
border:2px solid #2266AA">
This is a floating javascript menu.
</div>
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
/* Script by: www.jtricks.com
* Version: 20071210
* Latest version:
* www.jtricks.com/javascript/navigation/floating.html
*/
var floatingMenuId = 'floatdiv';
var floatingMenu =
{
targetX: -250,
targetY: 10,
hasInner: typeof(window.innerWidth) == 'number',
hasElement: document.documentElement
&& document.documentElement.clientWidth,
menu:
document.getElementById
? document.getElementById(floatingMenuId)
: document.all
? document.all[floatingMenuId]
: document.layers[floatingMenuId]
};
floatingMenu.move = function ()
{
if (document.layers)
{
floatingMenu.menu.left = floatingMenu.nextX;
floatingMenu.menu.top = floatingMenu.nextY;
}
else
{
floatingMenu.menu.style.left = floatingMenu.nextX + 'px';
floatingMenu.menu.style.top = floatingMenu.nextY + 'px';
}
}
floatingMenu.computeShifts = function ()
{
var de = document.documentElement;
floatingMenu.shiftX =
floatingMenu.hasInner
? pageXOffset
: floatingMenu.hasElement
? de.scrollLeft
: document.body.scrollLeft;
if (floatingMenu.targetX < 0)
{
if (floatingMenu.hasElement && floatingMenu.hasInner)
{
// Handle Opera 8 problems
floatingMenu.shiftX +=
de.clientWidth > window.innerWidth
? window.innerWidth
: de.clientWidth
}
else
{
floatingMenu.shiftX +=
floatingMenu.hasElement
? de.clientWidth
: floatingMenu.hasInner
? window.innerWidth
: document.body.clientWidth;
}
}
floatingMenu.shiftY =
floatingMenu.hasInner
? pageYOffset
: floatingMenu.hasElement
? de.scrollTop
: document.body.scrollTop;
if (floatingMenu.targetY < 0)
{
if (floatingMenu.hasElement && floatingMenu.hasInner)
{
// Handle Opera 8 problems
floatingMenu.shiftY +=
de.clientHeight > window.innerHeight
? window.innerHeight
: de.clientHeight
}
else
{
floatingMenu.shiftY +=
floatingMenu.hasElement
? document.documentElement.clientHeight
: floatingMenu.hasInner
? window.innerHeight
: document.body.clientHeight;
}
}
}
floatingMenu.doFloat = function()
{
var stepX, stepY;
floatingMenu.computeShifts();
stepX = (floatingMenu.shiftX +
floatingMenu.targetX - floatingMenu.nextX) * .07;
if (Math.abs(stepX) < .5)
{
stepX = floatingMenu.shiftX +
floatingMenu.targetX - floatingMenu.nextX;
}
stepY = (floatingMenu.shiftY +
floatingMenu.targetY - floatingMenu.nextY) * .07;
if (Math.abs(stepY) < .5)
{
stepY = floatingMenu.shiftY +
floatingMenu.targetY - floatingMenu.nextY;
}
if (Math.abs(stepX) > 0 ||
Math.abs(stepY) > 0)
{
floatingMenu.nextX += stepX;
floatingMenu.nextY += stepY;
floatingMenu.move();
}
setTimeout('floatingMenu.doFloat()', 20);
};
// addEvent designed by Aaron Moore
floatingMenu.addEvent = function(element, listener, handler)
{
if(typeof element[listener] != 'function' ||
typeof element[listener + '_num'] == 'undefined')
{
element[listener + '_num'] = 0;
if (typeof element[listener] == 'function')
{
element[listener + 0] = element[listener];
element[listener + '_num']++;
}
element[listener] = function(e)
{
var r = true;
e = (e) ? e : window.event;
for(var i = element[listener + '_num'] -1; i >= 0; i--)
{
if(element[listener + i](e) == false)
r = false;
}
return r;
}
}
//if handler is not already stored, assign it
for(var i = 0; i < element[listener + '_num']; i++)
if(element[listener + i] == handler)
return;
element[listener + element[listener + '_num']] = handler;
element[listener + '_num']++;
};
floatingMenu.init = function()
{
floatingMenu.initSecondary();
floatingMenu.doFloat();
};
// Some browsers init scrollbars only after
// full document load.
floatingMenu.initSecondary = function()
{
floatingMenu.computeShifts();
floatingMenu.nextX = floatingMenu.shiftX +
floatingMenu.targetX;
floatingMenu.nextY = floatingMenu.shiftY +
floatingMenu.targetY;
floatingMenu.move();
}
if (document.layers)
floatingMenu.addEvent(window, 'onload', floatingMenu.init);
else
{
floatingMenu.init();
floatingMenu.addEvent(window, 'onload',
floatingMenu.initSecondary);
}
//--></script>
Browser compatibility
The javascript snippet above was tested on the following user agents:
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