Here’s the situation: Your site offers a “scroll back to top” button, and you’ve implemented smooth scrolling. As the page scrolls back to the top, users see something that catches their eye and they want to stop the scrolling, so …
A button to return to the top of the page allows the user to quickly return to the top of the page without making too much effort. This can be very useful when the page has a lot of content …
It’s kind of amazing how far HTML and CSS will take you when building a carousel/slideshow.
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Smooth scrolling has gotten a lot easier. If you want it all the time on your page, and you are happy letting the browser deal with the duration for you, it’s a single line of CSS:
html {
scroll-behavior: smooth;
This is an interesting read on the current state of scrollbars and how to control their behavior across operating systems and browsers. The post also highlights a bunch of stuff I didn’t know about, like Element.scrollIntoView() and the scroll-behavior CSS …
The scroll-behavior property in CSS allows us to define whether the scroll location of the browser jumps to a new location or smoothly animates the transition when a user clicks a link that targets an anchored position within a scrolling …
Hey! Before you go too far down the rabbit hole of JavaScript-based smooth scrolling, know that there is a native CSS feature for this: scroll-behavior.
html {
scroll-behavior: smooth;
}And before you reach for a library like jQuery …
