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JavaScript

Posted by Joel Hayes
Joel Hayes
1,608 Points

Parallax Effect

So I am working on a website for my marketing company, and I am attempting to use parallax quite a lot (mostly on div backgrounds). I have been coding for awhile and I feel comfortable with most tasks, but I haven't found a solid method for this effect. Is there a good tutorial somewhere on this topic? The closest thing I found got me somewhat there, but when I apply it, it's jittery and seems bulky.

2 Answers

Bob McCarty
PLUS
Bob McCarty
Courses Plus Student 16,618 Points
Bob McCarty
Bob McCarty
Courses Plus Student 16,618 Points

Joel,

I used these two YouTube tutorials.

Javascript Parallax Effect Explained

Javascript Parallax Details Cross Browser and Optimizations

The tutorials cover JavaScript optimization. I made this change for Microsoft Edge.

 //top = thingBeingScrolled.scrollTop;
                if (window.navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Edge") === -1) {
                    top = document.documentElement.scrollTop;
                }
                else {
                     top = document.body.scrollTop;
                }
Joel Hayes
Joel Hayes
1,608 Points

Thank you!

jason chan
jason chan
31,009 Points
jason chan
jason chan
31,009 Points

http://pixelcog.github.io/parallax.js/

You can try this jquery library.

Joel Hayes
Joel Hayes
1,608 Points

Thanks for your response!