ActiveScroll.js

This jQuery plugin allows for Smooth Scrolling with Anchor Highlighting.

ActiveScroll.js determines which targeted element is closer to the page scroll position and highlights that anchor. It provides a smooth scrolling feature with an onclick event attached to a customised data attribute.

Highlighting will only apply to anchors in the initiated container. However all links with the data attribute will have the scrollTo feature.

$('nav').activescroll({
    scroll: "scroll",
    active: "active",
    offset: 20,
    animate: 1000
});

Installation

NPM

Make sure you have node.js installed. It comes bundled with npm

npm install active-scroll --save

Bower

Make sure you have bower installed.

bower install active-scroll --save

Usage

Make sure you have a data attribute that references the id of the element that the page will be scrolled to.

<nav>
    <ul>
        <li data-scroll="intro">Introduction</li>
        <li data-scroll="basic">Basic</li>
    </ul>
</nav>
...
<h2 id="intro">Introduction</h2>
...
<div id="basic">
    <p>Hello World</p>
</div>

Inititate the plugin on the element that contains all the data bindings.

$('nav').activescroll();

Settings

data (default: scroll)

The data setting looks for the data attribute to define the anchor tags. For compatability with other plugins you can change the bind in the options.

<nav>
    <ul>
        <li data-link="intro">Introduction</li>
        <li data-link="basic">Basic</li>
    </ul>
</nav>

$('nav').activescroll({
    data: "link"
});

active (default: active)

The active setting determines the class name to attach to the anchor if it highlighted.

<nav>
    <ul>
        <li data-scroll="intro">Introduction</li>
        <li data-scroll="basic">Basic</li>
    </ul>
</nav>

$('nav').activescroll({
    active: "highlight"
});

So if Introduction was determined to be the active Anchor:

<nav>
    <ul>
        <li class="highlight" data-scroll="intro">Introduction</li>
        <li data-scroll="basic">Basic</li>
    </ul>
</nav>

offset (default: 20)

The offset setting determines the offset of the scrollTo position.

$('nav').activescroll({
    offset: 10
});

animate (default: 1000)

The animate setting determines the ms the scrollTo should take.

$('nav').activescroll({
    animate: 2000
});