On this page http://www.alpha-lemur.com/legacy.html (which is just a test site, it’s not doing any e-commerce yet) I’m using a dynamic scrolling box for the side navigation, so when a user scrolls down the screen, the nav remains on screen. While it works great in FireFox (as most things do), it’s not showing up in IE or Chrome. Here’s the Javascript I’m using:
// JavaScript Document
var floatingMenuId = 'sidenavfloat';
var floatingMenu =
{
targetX: -1440,
targetY: 5,
hasInner: typeof(window.innerWidth) == 'number',
hasElement: document.documentElement
&& document.documentElement.clientWidth,
menu:
document.getElementById
? document.getElementById(floatingMenuId)
: document.all
? document.all[floatingMenuId]
: document.layers[floatingMenuId]
};
floatingMenu.move = function ()
{
if (document.layers)
{
floatingMenu.menu.left = floatingMenu.nextX;
floatingMenu.menu.top = floatingMenu.nextY;
}
else
{
floatingMenu.menu.style.left = floatingMenu.nextX + 'px';
floatingMenu.menu.style.top = floatingMenu.nextY + 'px';
}
}
floatingMenu.computeShifts = function ()
{
var de = document.documentElement;
floatingMenu.shiftX =
floatingMenu.hasInner
? pageXOffset
: floatingMenu.hasElement
? de.scrollLeft
: document.body.scrollLeft;
if (floatingMenu.targetX < 0)
{
if (floatingMenu.hasElement && floatingMenu.hasInner)
{
// Handle Opera 8 problems
floatingMenu.shiftX +=
de.clientWidth > window.innerWidth
? window.innerWidth
: de.clientWidth
}
else
{
floatingMenu.shiftX +=
floatingMenu.hasElement
? de.clientWidth
: floatingMenu.hasInner
? window.innerWidth
: document.body.clientWidth;
}
}
floatingMenu.shiftY =
floatingMenu.hasInner
? pageYOffset
: floatingMenu.hasElement
? de.scrollTop
: document.body.scrollTop;
if (floatingMenu.targetY < 0)
{
if (floatingMenu.hasElement && floatingMenu.hasInner)
{
// Handle Opera 8 problems
floatingMenu.shiftY +=
de.clientHeight > window.innerHeight
? window.innerHeight
: de.clientHeight
}
else
{
floatingMenu.shiftY +=
floatingMenu.hasElement
? document.documentElement.clientHeight
: floatingMenu.hasInner
? window.innerHeight
: document.body.clientHeight;
}
}
}
floatingMenu.doFloat = function()
{
var stepX, stepY;
floatingMenu.computeShifts();
stepX = (floatingMenu.shiftX +
floatingMenu.targetX - floatingMenu.nextX) * .07;
if (Math.abs(stepX) < .5)
{
stepX = floatingMenu.shiftX +
floatingMenu.targetX - floatingMenu.nextX;
}
stepY = (floatingMenu.shiftY +
floatingMenu.targetY - floatingMenu.nextY) * .07;
if (Math.abs(stepY) < .5)
{
stepY = floatingMenu.shiftY +
floatingMenu.targetY - floatingMenu.nextY;
}
if (Math.abs(stepX) > 0 ||
Math.abs(stepY) > 0)
{
floatingMenu.nextX += stepX;
floatingMenu.nextY += stepY;
floatingMenu.move();
}
setTimeout('floatingMenu.doFloat()', 20);
};
// addEvent designed by Aaron Moore
floatingMenu.addEvent = function(element, listener, handler)
{
if(typeof element
[listener] != 'function' ||
typeof element
[listener + '_num'] == 'undefined')
{
element
[listener + '_num'] = 0;
if (typeof element
[listener] == 'function')
{
element
[listener + 0] = element
[listener];
element
[listener + '_num']++;
}
element
[listener] = function(e)
{
var r = true;
e = (e) ? e : window.event;
for(var i = element
[listener + '_num'] -1; i >= 0; i--)
{
if(element
[listener + i](e) == false)
r = false;
}
return r;
}
}
//if handler is not already stored, assign it
for(var i = 0; i < element
[listener + '_num']; i++)
if(element
[listener + i] == handler)
return;
element
[listener + element
[listener + '_num']] = handler;
element
[listener + '_num']++;
};
floatingMenu.init = function()
{
floatingMenu.initSecondary();
floatingMenu.doFloat();
};
// Some browsers init scrollbars only after
// full document load.
floatingMenu.initSecondary = function()
{
floatingMenu.computeShifts();
floatingMenu.nextX = floatingMenu.shiftX +
floatingMenu.targetX;
floatingMenu.nextY = floatingMenu.shiftY +
floatingMenu.targetY;
floatingMenu.move();
}
if (document.layers)
floatingMenu.addEvent(window, 'onload', floatingMenu.init);
else
{
floatingMenu.init();
floatingMenu.addEvent(window, 'onload',
floatingMenu.initSecondary);
}
And I can provide the contents of the menu as well, if you need them. Thanks!