- Smooth scrolling page navigation.
- Easing can easily be defined for both horizontal and vertical scrolling.
- Auto-updating menu which highlights both the currently viewed content & other content in view.
- User can cancel auto-scroll by pressing any key, clicking on the page or scrolling the mousewheel.
- Can be set up to work with any menu elements. Integrates easily with Bootstrap!
- Main vertical scrolling demo
- Horizontal and Vertical content demo
- Section stepper demo
- Bootstrap demo
- Demo Playground
- Moved to the Wiki pages.
- For more details, see my blog entry or check out any of the demo pages source.
- jQuery 1.3+ (required)
- jQuery easing plugin (optional); jQuery 1.4 required for special easing.
- MIT License for all versions.
- Previously it was dual licensed under MIT and GPL, but now it's just the MIT.
- Doesn't work well in IE7 or IE quirks mode. Probably not in IE6.
- The menu will not select (or highlight) the item above the last item if they are both very short. For example, if your browser shows three sections while at the bottom of the page. The third to last may have shown for a brief time just before the bottom of the page reached the bottom edge margin. The menu would then skip directly to the last menu item. This is one reason why the bottom margin value is kept a low number (100 pixels by default).
- If you click on a menu item, the page contents will automatically scroll to that section and update the browser url with that target. But if you manually scroll the page using the scroll bar or mouse, the web page url will not update with the current position. This was done on purpose, because if the script changes the location, the page will jump to that target automatically. This wouldn't look good if you are quickly scrolling through the page as it would make the movement jittery.
- Merged in optimization by annavester. Thanks for contributing!
- Added gitignore and gitattribute files.
- Added manifest file for jQuery plugin registry site.
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Added
stopOnInteraction
option- When
true
any interaction the user performs during scrolling will stop the animation. - If this option is
false
, the animation can not be interrupted unless astop()
function is called on the document body -$('body').stop()
. - Interactions include pressing any key on the keyboard, clicking the mouse on the page or using the mousewheel.
- In previous versions, this functionality was built in and always enabled this option was added to allow the plugin to work by stepping through the sections - see the new section stepper demo.
- Default value is
true
.
- When
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Added an
initialized
callback function:-
This callback is executed after the plugin has finished initialization.
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Set up the option as follows:
$("#menu").visualNav({ initialized : function(vNav){ // vNav = visualNav object (api) } });
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Added a
changed
callback function:-
This callback is executed every time the menu changes.
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So going from the first to third menu item, the
changed
callback will fire off twice (2nd & 3rd menu item), then fire off thecomplete
callback. -
Set up the option as follows:
$("#menu").visualNav({ changed : function(vNav){ // vNav = visualNav object (api) } });
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Added
currentContent
option- Set this option with the css class name to style the current content.
- In the section stepper demo, you can see that it changes the background color of the current section.
- This class name is added to the content when the menu updates.
- A jQuery object of the current content can be accessed through the api as
vNav.$curContent
. - The default value is
'current'
.
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Added an update method
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If the visualNav plugin needs to be updated with any changes to the menu or content, this API method can be used.
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Either method below will update the menu
// update visualNav, any variables will be ignored $('#menu').visualNav(); // or use the api to update the plugin var vNav = $('#menu').data('visualNav'); vNav.update();
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Updated the
contentLinks
andexternalLinks
options:- These options contain the class name that could only be applied to a link
<a>
to work properly - Now any element with either of these class names can contain links
- These options contain the class name that could only be applied to a link
- Added an
externalLinks
option:- This option contains the class name applied to links within the navigation menu which are ignored by this plugin.
- Use it for external page links or popups, as needed.
- The default value is
"external"
.
- Added a Bootstrap demo.
- Changed the HTML basic layout to include a inner content wrapper
- This inner wrapper now has the styling applied to it - border, background, padding, etc.
- The outer "content" wrapper provides the margins to allow for a side menu or top menu (like Bootstrap) and keep the content in view, not under the menu.
- visualNav updated to work with horizontal and/or vertical page layouts.
- Added a second demo to show the menu working with both horizontal and vertical content.
- Added useHash option that turns on (true, default setting) or off (false) the updating of the hash in the url.
- Added fitContent option that resizes the content when true (false by default). For use when horizontal content is present.
- Added easing option which adds easing to horizontal and/or vertical scrolling.
- Added animation to reposition the content on initial load if a hash tag is present.
- Fixed a bug where links contained in the menu wrapper, but not inside the menu wouldn't work - see link to other demo (in the demo) to see what I mean.