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JavaScript

Posted by Emeka Okoye
Emeka Okoye
2,489 Points

scrollTop issue - non track related

Last month I created a one-page site and use the scrollTop function to create a nice animated scroll on the page to various sections.

I now need to expand the website to create other pages. This is not a problem but I've got a sticky menu with a nav that contains links that don't work on any other page but the home page.

How can I make it work in such a way that when one of the scrollTop links is clicked, it first returns to the homepage and then scrolls to the relevant section?

Here's my JS

$(function(){
   $(".navbar-nav li a").on("click", function(e) {

   $('html, body').animate({
        scrollTop : $($(this).data('target')).offset().top - 68
    });

    e.preventDefault();
       return false;
});

Here's the corresponding HTML

<ul class="nav navbar-nav">
      <li><a href="#" data-target="#about">About</a></li>
      <li><a href="#" data-target="#products">Products</a></li>
      <li><a href="#" data-target="#order">How to Order</a></li>
      <li><a href="#" data-target="#contact">Contact</a></li>
</ul>

1 Answer

dorzki
dorzki
4,312 Points
dorzki
dorzki
4,312 Points

take your code and wrap it with a function, then use this:

$(document).ready(function (){
    if (location.hash){
        setTimeout(function(){
            $('html, body').scrollTop(0).show();
            // call the function which do smooth scroll
        }, 0);
    }else{
        $('html, body').show();
    }
});

taken from here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9652944/jquery-page-scroll-to-different-page