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Scrollorama is a jQuery plugin for creating eye-candy effects in parallel to the scrolling of web pages.

By dividing the content into blocks, it simply lets us to animate elements on the page (when a block is reached) based on the browser window’s scroll position.

The animations are accomplished using CSS properties, durations of them can be defined and it is also possible to set the exact scrolling positions of the start/stop events.

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We generally have lots of content to present but can not load all of it at once as it may take too long.

I always loved the dZone’s Ajax content loading while scrolling feature and created a similar one using jQuery.

I’m pleased to share with WebResourcesDepot readers (Check the demo – scroll down to see new content in the demo)

This Ajax auto content loading can very be handy in almost every project. Don’t forget to bookmark it (del.icio.us link).

Download package includes a working demo coded with ASP with a test MySQL database. ASP code is just a simple query so you can switch it with a one you like easily.

What is loading content while scrolling?

When we are scrolling down a webpage, the code recognizes that you are at the bottom and auto-loads new content.

Why to use it?

It helps increasing the initial load speeds of pages faster and users will have to load only the content they see.

How it works? (Check the demo)

In our case, we have DIVS holding contents where every DIV ID is content’s database ID.

• Content structure is like:

<div class="wrdLatest" id=9>content</div>
<div class="wrdLatest" id=8>content</div>

• We create a function sending a query to a dynamic file with the DIV ID of the latest wrdLatest DIV (and also put a loader image):

function lastPostFunc()
{
    $('div#lastPostsLoader').html('<img src="bigLoader.gif">');
    $.post("scroll.asp?action=getLastPosts&lastID=" + $(".wrdLatest:last").attr("id"),    


    function(data){
        if (data != "") {
        $(".wrdLatest:last").after(data);           
        }
        $('div#lastPostsLoader').empty();
    });
}; 


• When a user scrolls down, we understand that the scroller is at the bottom with teh function below and fire the lastPostFunc function.

$(window).scroll(function(){
        if  ($(window).scrollTop() == $(document).height() - $(window).height()){
           lastPostFunc();
        }
});

I have applied the demo to the DNSPinger service. Simply scroll down to see new content loading.

Dependencies

This is a very simple code that uses jQuery’s great dimensions plugin that helps us understand that we are at the bottom of the page. Update: Dimensions plugin is included with jQuery 1.2.6 and no need to include it as an extra.

Besides that, you can improve the code to detect the users sceen-size and load your initial content according to that screen size.

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df Smooth Scroll is a tiny javascript which lets you scroll the page slowly & smoothly.

This script is too simple to understand and use. Nothing but playing with Anchor Tags.

Features:

- Simplest to implement
- One of the smallest Javascript 1024 bytes
- Cross-Browser compatible
- Includes the source file too…

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