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Posted by Colin Marshall
Colin Marshall
32,861 Points

Links to same page

So I am well aware how to link to a section of the same document using ID's. My problem is that I have a sticky navigation which isn't accounted for so it scrolls to the correct position when I click on the link, but the sticky navigation covers up the top part so it appears like it scrolls slightly too far.

Is there a way to offset where the link scrolls to so I can account for the sticky navigation?

2 Answers

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

You can, and possibly even without javascript. Here, look at this very simple code pen I made.

http://codepen.io/anon/pen/DpFEj

I think this is the end result you were going for. I found this page that offers some none CSS solutions, and the drawbacks of each. The solution in the codepen might not work for you.

http://nicolasgallagher.com/jump-links-and-viewport-positioning/demo/

This stack overflow has a few more solutions depending on your set up. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10732690/offsetting-an-html-anchor-to-adjust-for-fixed-header

Colin Marshall
Colin Marshall
32,861 Points
Colin Marshall
Colin Marshall
32,861 Points

Thanks Kevin! I went with this jQuery solution, which looks pretty nice to me.

$("body").on("click", "a", function() {
  fromTop = 150;
  href = $(this).attr("href");

  // If href is set, points to an Anchor, and the Anchor is not simply #
  if(href && href.indexOf("#") != -1 && href.indexOf("#") != href.length - 1) {
    href = href.substring(href.indexOf("#"));
    if($(href).length > 0) { // If element exists
      $('html, body').animate({scrollTop: $(href).offset().top - fromTop}, 400);
      return false;
    }
  }
});

http://stackoverflow.com/a/13067009