How can I make a div stick to the top of the screen once it's been scrolled to?

Question

I would like to create a div, that is situated beneath a block of content but that once the page has been scrolled enough to contact its top boundary, becomes fixed in place

Answer 1

I came across this when searching for the same thing. I know it's an old question but I thought I'd offer a more recent answer.

Scrollorama has a 'pin it' feature which is just what I was looking for.

http://johnpolacek.github.io/scrollorama/

Answer 2

sticky till the footer hits the div:

function stickyCostSummary() {
    var stickySummary = $('.sticky-cost-summary');
    var scrollCostSummaryDivPosition = $(window).scrollTop();
    var footerHeight = $('#footer').height();
    var documentHeight = $(document).height();
    var costSummaryHeight = stickySummary.height();
    var headerHeight = 83;
    var footerMargin = 10;
    var scrollHeight = 252;
    var footerPosition = $('#footer').offset().top;

    if (scrollCostSummaryDivPosition > scrollHeight && scrollCostSummaryDivPosition <= (documentHeight - footerHeight - costSummaryHeight - headerHeight - footerMargin)) {
        stickySummary.removeAttr('style');
        stickySummary.addClass('fixed');

    } else if (scrollCostSummaryDivPosition > (documentHeight - footerHeight - costSummaryHeight - headerHeight - footerMargin)) {
        stickySummary.removeClass('fixed');
        stickySummary.css({
          "position" : "absolute",
          "top" : (documentHeight - footerHeight - costSummaryHeight - headerHeight - footerMargin - scrollHeight) + "px"
      });
    } else {
        stickySummary.removeClass('fixed');
        stickySummary.css({
            "position" : "absolute",
            "top" : "0"
        });
    }
}

$window.scroll(stickyCostSummary);

Answer 3

You can add 3 extra rows so when the user scroll back to the top, the div will stick on its old place:

Here is the code:

if ($(this).scrollTop() < 200 && $el.css('position') == 'fixed'){
    $('.fixedElement').css({'position': 'relative', 'top': '200px'});
}

Answer 4

I had the same problem as you and ended up making a jQuery plugin to take care of it. It actually solves all the problems people have listed here, plus it adds a couple of optional features too.

Options

stickyPanelSettings = {
    // Use this to set the top margin of the detached panel.
    topPadding: 0,

    // This class is applied when the panel detaches.
    afterDetachCSSClass: "",

    // When set to true the space where the panel was is kept open.
    savePanelSpace: false,

    // Event fires when panel is detached
    // function(detachedPanel, panelSpacer){....}
    onDetached: null,

    // Event fires when panel is reattached
    // function(detachedPanel){....}
    onReAttached: null,

    // Set this using any valid jquery selector to 
    // set the parent of the sticky panel.
    // If set to null then the window object will be used.
    parentSelector: null
};

https://github.com/donnyv/sticky-panel

demo: http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/donnyv/sticky-panel/blob/master/jquery.stickyPanel/Main.htm

Answer 5

Here is another option:

JAVASCRIPT

var initTopPosition= $('#myElementToStick').offset().top;   
$(window).scroll(function(){
    if($(window).scrollTop() > initTopPosition)
        $('#myElementToStick').css({'position':'fixed','top':'0px'});
    else
        $('#myElementToStick').css({'position':'absolute','top':initTopPosition+'px'});
});

Your #myElementToStick should start with position:absolute CSS property.

Answer 6

And here's how without jquery (UPDATE: see other answers where you can now do this with CSS only)

var startProductBarPos=-1;
window.onscroll=function(){
  var bar = document.getElementById('nav');
  if(startProductBarPos<0)startProductBarPos=findPosY(bar);

  if(pageYOffset>startProductBarPos){
    bar.style.position='fixed';
    bar.style.top=0;
  }else{
    bar.style.position='relative';
  }

};

function findPosY(obj) {
  var curtop = 0;
  if (typeof (obj.offsetParent) != 'undefined' && obj.offsetParent) {
    while (obj.offsetParent) {
      curtop += obj.offsetTop;
      obj = obj.offsetParent;
    }
    curtop += obj.offsetTop;
  }
  else if (obj.y)
    curtop += obj.y;
  return curtop;
}

* {margin:0;padding:0;}
.nav {
  border: 1px red dashed;
  background: #00ffff;
  text-align:center;
  padding: 21px 0;

  margin: 0 auto;
  z-index:10; 
  width:100%;
  left:0;
  right:0;
}

.header {
  text-align:center;
  padding: 65px 0;
  border: 1px red dashed;
}

.content {
  padding: 500px 0;
  text-align:center;
  border: 1px red dashed;
}
.footer {
  padding: 100px 0;
  text-align:center;
  background: #777;
  border: 1px red dashed;
}

<header class="header">This is a Header</header>
<div id="nav" class="nav">Main Navigation</div>
<div class="content">Hello World!</div>
<footer class="footer">This is a Footer</footer>