Hey all, I need a jQuery action to fire when a user scrolls past certain locations on the page. Is this even possible with jQuery? I have looked at .scroll in the jQuery API and I don't think this is what I need. It fires every time the user scrolls, but I need it to fire just when a user passes a certain area.
Use the jquery event .scroll()
$(window).on('scroll', function() {
var y_scroll_pos = window.pageYOffset;
var scroll_pos_test = 150; // set to whatever you want it to be
if(y_scroll_pos > scroll_pos_test) {
//do stuff
}
});
Waypoints in jQuery should do it: http://imakewebthings.github.com/jquery-waypoints/
$('#my-el').waypoint(function(direction) {
console.log('Reached ' + this.element.id + ' from ' + direction + ' direction.');
});
jQuery waypoints plugin documentation: http://imakewebthings.com/waypoints/guides/jquery-zepto/
To fire any action only once on a single page I have modified jondavid's snippet as following.
jQuery(document).ready(function($){
$triggered_times = 0;
$(window).on('scroll', function() {
var y_scroll_pos = window.pageYOffset;
var scroll_pos_test = 150; // set to whatever you want it to be
if(y_scroll_pos > scroll_pos_test && $triggered_times == 0 ) {
//do your stuff over here
$triggered_times = 1; // to make sure the above action triggers only once
}
});
})
Here you can check example of working code snippet;
jQuery(document).ready(function($){
$triggered_times = 0;
$(window).on('scroll', function() {
var y_scroll_pos = window.pageYOffset;
var scroll_pos_test = 150; // set to whatever you want it to be
if(y_scroll_pos > scroll_pos_test && $triggered_times == 0 ) {
alert('This alert is triggered after you have scroll down to 150px')
$triggered_times = 1; // to make sure the above action triggers only once
}
});
})p {
height: 1000px;
}<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<body>
<p>scroll down this block to get an alert</p>
</body>