marani/rescroll

Keep viewport in the right place on window resize

Rescroll

A tiny module to fix resize problem on responsive webpages. See Demo

Install

With bower

bower install rescroll

Include dist/rescroll.js in your page.

With browserify

npm install rescroll

Usage

Rescroll exposes a global function InitRescroll which accepts the following parameters:

• resizeTarget: element whose resize event will cause changes or reflow to other elements, default is window
• scrollTarget: element to be scrolled back, default is document.body
• anchors: anchors to be used as anchor to fix viewport's position on, default is null. When initialized, on each resize event on resizeTarget, the processor will find the anchor closest to focusCenterY * viewportHeight and try to scroll back to the right position based on the ratio of height change of that anchor.
• focusCenterY: expected user's reading position, default is 0.5, which is half of viewport's height.

anchors is an array of objects of following type

  {
    element: [HTMLElement],
    type: ['Box'|'Text']
  }

Example

To fix viewport on any p element closest to the middle of viewport, do the following:

var anchors = [];
var boxes = document.querySelectorAll('p');
for (var i = 0; i < boxes.length; i++)
  anchors.push({
    element: boxes[i],
    type: 'Box'
  });
InitRescroll({
  anchors: anchors
});