How to Create a Scroll Indicator with JavaScript
Have you noticed that when you scroll the webpage there is a scrollbar at the top of the page?
This scrollbar indicates how much amount of page is scrolled. Scroll position indicators have different forms: variations on the vertical scrollbar, horizontal elements at the top or bottom of the page, and other styles.
In this snippet, we are going to show a simple and quick way to create a scroll indicator for your website with the help of a little JavaScript code.
Use window.scroll so that the indicator works only when the user scrolls the page:
window.onscroll = function () {
let windowScroll = document.documentElement.scrollTop;
let windowHeight = document.documentElement.scrollHeight - document.documentElement.clientHeight;
let scrollAmount = (windowScroll / windowHeight) * 100;
document.getElementById("mybar").style.width = scrollAmount + "%";
};The example of scroll indicator created with JavaScript:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of the document</title>
<style>
.header {
position: fixed;
top: 0;
z-index: 1;
width: 100%;
background-color: #32a2a8;
}
.header h2 {
text-align: center;
}
.container {
width: 100%;
height: 10px;
background: #ccc;
}
.progress-bar {
height: 10px;
background: #005357;
width: 0%;
}
.text {
padding: 100px 0;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="header">
<h2>Scroll Indicator</h2>
<div class="container">
<div class="progress-bar" id="mybar"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="text">
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</div>
<script>
window.onscroll = function() {
let windowScroll = document.documentElement.scrollTop;
let windowHeight = document.documentElement.scrollHeight - document.documentElement.clientHeight;
let scrollAmount = (windowScroll / windowHeight) * 100;
document.getElementById("mybar").style.width = scrollAmount + "%";
};
</script>
</body>
</html>The Window Properties
The Window interface represents a window that contains a DOM document. The document property points to the DOM document that is loaded in that window. The window.innerHeight property is read-only and gets the height of the content area of the browser window including the horizontal scrollbar(if rendered).