Is there a way to make horizontal scrolling smoother

Question

This fiddle is almost what I\'m looking for, I got it from MDN. The only thing missing is that I want to make it smoother. Is there a way to do that without using jQuery or any

Answer 1

If you don't want to keep track of the scroll position, you can use scrollBy instead of scrollTo.

  container.scrollBy({
    top: 0,
    left: +500,
    behavior: 'smooth'
  }) 

Answer 2

Adding scroll-behavior: smooth; to #container will make it smooth.

Here is example on this Fiddle

Answer 3

You can also use the .scrollTo method. I've modified the jsFidlle with this javascript :

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/scrollTo

var container = document.getElementById('container');
var input = document.getElementById('content');
var scrollAmount = 0;
var scrollMin = 0
var scrollMax = input.clientWidth

document.getElementById('slide').onclick = function () {
  container.scrollTo({
    top: 0,
    left: Math.max(scrollAmount += 500, scrollMax),
    behavior: 'smooth'
  });
};


document.getElementById('slideBack').onclick = function () {
  container.scrollTo({
    top: 0,
    left: Math.min(scrollAmount -= 500, scrollMin),
    behavior: 'smooth'
  });
};

Answer 4

you can do it vertically with jquery although i'm sure it can be adjusted to be done horizontally. The demo is here

There's a javascript smoothscroll on github too added by cfernandi

Also ccheck out iscroll.js

$(function() {
  $('a[href*=#]:not([href=#])').click(function() {
    if (location.pathname.replace(/^\//,'') == this.pathname.replace(/^\//,'') && location.hostname == this.hostname) {
      var target = $(this.hash);
      target = target.length ? target : $('[name=' + this.hash.slice(1) +']');
      if (target.length) {
        $('html,body').animate({
          scrollTop: target.offset().top
        }, 1000);
        return false;
      }
    }
  });
});

Answer 5

This could probably be optimised a fair bit, but here is a basic example of how you could do it using setInterval and clearInterval

Fiddle

Update

Here is another example of it wrapped into a function instead, bit easier to tweak the speed etc.

Fiddle

Answer 6

Add scroll-behavior: smooth; to the scroll element. I feel it better