Adding Scrollspy to your Website
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3 min readOct 5, 2016
In this article, Solodev shows you how to add further ease of navigation to your website using scrollspy, a tool that automatically updates links in your website navigation based on the scroll position of your website.
Below is the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript required.
Step 1 — Add the HTML below to your web page.
<body data-spy="scroll" data-target=".navbar" data-offset="50">
<nav class="navbar navbar-inverse navbar-fixed-top">
<div class="container-fluid">
<div class="navbar-header">
<button type="button" class="navbar-toggle" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#myNavbar">
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
</button>
<a class="navbar-brand" href="#"> <img src="https://www.solodev.com/assets/email/logo.png" alt="Logo Solodev"></a>
</div>
<div>
<div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="myNavbar">
<ul class="nav navbar-nav">
<li><a href="#section1">Section 1</a></li>
<li><a href="#section2">Section 2</a></li>
<li><a href="#section3">Section 3</a></li>
<li><a href="#section4">Section 4</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</nav><div id="section1" class="container-fluid">
<h1>Section 1</h1>
<p>Try to scroll this section and look at the navigation bar while scrolling! <strong>Clearly another Festivus Miracle!</strong></p>
</div>
<div id="section2" class="container-fluid">
<h1>Section 2</h1>
<p>Try to scroll this section and look at the navigation bar while scrolling! Try to scroll this section and look at the navigation bar while scrolling!</p>
</div>
<div id="section3" class="container-fluid">
<h1>Section 3</h1>
<p>Try to scroll this section and look at the navigation bar while scrolling! Try to scroll this section and look at the navigation bar while scrolling!</p>
</div>
<div id="section4" class="container-fluid">
<h1>Section 4</h1>
<p>Try to scroll this section and look at the navigation bar while scrolling! Try to scroll this section and look at the navigation bar while scrolling!</p>
</div>
Step 2 — Add CSS to the main stylesheet of your website.
body {
position: relative;
}
#section1 {padding-top:120px;padding-left: 75px; height:700px;color: #fff; background-color: #696969;}
#section2 {padding-top:120px;padding-left: 75px; height:700px;color: #fff; background-color: #D3D3D3;}
#section3 {padding-top:120px;padding-left: 75px; height:700px;color: #fff; background-color: #ff9800;}
#section4 {padding-top:120px;padding-left: 75px; height:700px;color: #fff; background-color: #00bcd4;}
.navbar-brand>img {
padding-top: 11px;
width: 130px;
margin-left: 60px;
}
.navbar-brand {
height: auto;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
margin-right: 20px;
}
.navbar-default .navbar-nav > .active > a {
padding: 8px 19px 9px !important;
}
.navbar-right {
padding-top: 0;
}
.navbar-default .navbar-nav > li > a::after {
background-color: transparent;
border-bottom: 3px solid #d2282e;
}
.navbar-default .navbar-nav>li {
display: inline-block;
text-align: center;
float: none;
}
.navbar-default .navbar-nav>li>a {
color: #fff;
}
.navbar-default .navbar-nav>li>a:hover {
color: #fff;
background-color: #0392CC;
}
.panel-body {
color: #000000;
}Step 3 — Add the includes below to your web page.
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.2.0.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">Originally Posted on the Solodev Web Design Blog
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