Minimalistic but perfect custom scrollbar plugin
If you want information of old versions<0.6.0, please refer to an old documentation.
I was once working on a personal project, and trying to find the jQuery scrollbar plugin that's perfect. But there was no perfect one. That's why I decided to make one.
perfect-scrollbar is minimalistic but perfect (for me, and maybe for most developers) scrollbar plugin working with jQuery or vanilla JavaScript as well.
I hope you love it!
perfect means...
- There should be no css change on any original element.
- The scrollbar should not affect the original design layout.
- The design of the scrollbar should be (nearly) fully customizable.
- If the size of the container or the content changes, the scrollbar size and position should be able to change.
- New! It should work with vanilla JavaScript and major tools like NPM or Browserify.
- perfect-scrollbar has some requirements, but doesn't change or add any style on original elements.
- perfect-scrollbar is designed not to have width or height. It's fixed on the right and bottom side of the container.
- You can change nearly all css styles of the scrollbar. The scrollbar design has no dependency on scripts.
- perfect-scrollbar supports an 'update' function. Whenever you need to update the size or position of the scrollbar, just update.
- Additionally, perfect-scrollbar uses 'scrollTop' and 'scrollLeft', not absolute positioning or something messy.
- perfect-scrollbar supports RTL perfectly on both WebKit and Gecko based browsers.
It's cool, isn't it?
The best way to install and use perfect-scrollbar is with NPM.
It's registered on npm as perfect-scrollbar.
$ npm install perfect-scrollbar
In the case you would like to have perfect-scrollbar in your Rails application, there is the perfect-scrollbar-rails gem.
You can download the latest stable version with download links here. You also can find all releases on Releases.
If you want to use the development version of the plugin, use the
source files which are not minified. They're in the src directory.
The development version may be unstable, but some known bugs may
have been fixed.
$ git clone https://github.com/noraesae/perfect-scrollbar.git
$ cd perfect-scrollbar/src
$ npm install
$ gulp # will lint and build the source code.
There is a Bower package for perfect-scrollbar as well. It is managed
under the perfect-scrollbar-bower
repository. The plugin is registered as perfect-scrollbar.
$ bower install perfect-scrollbar
You can fork the following JSFiddles for testing and experimenting purposes:
To make this plugin perfect, some requirements were unavoidable. But, they're all very trivial and there is nothing to worry about.
The following requirements should meet.
- the container must have a 'position' css style.
The following requirements are included in the basic CSS, but please keep in mind when you'd like to change the CSS files.
- the container must have an 'overflow:hidden' css style.
- the scrollbar's position must be 'absolute'.
- the scrollbar-x must have a 'bottom' css style, and the scrollbar-y must have a 'right' css style.
First of all, please check if the container element meets the requirements.
<link rel='stylesheet' href='dist/css/perfect-scrollbar.css' />
<style>
#container {
position: relative;
height: 100%; /* Or whatever you want (eg. 400px) */
}
</style>I would recommend using the plugin with NPM and CommonJS module system like Browserify.
var Ps = require('perfect-scrollbar');Or you can just load the script file as usual.
<script src='dist/js/perfect-scrollbar.js'></script>To initialise the plugin, Ps.initialize is used.
var container = document.getElementById('container');
Ps.initialize(container);It can be initialised with optional parameters.
Ps.initialize(container, {
wheelSpeed: 2,
wheelPropagation: true,
minScrollbarLength: 20
});If the size of your container or content changes, call update.
Ps.update(container);If you want to destroy the scrollbar, use destroy.
Ps.destroy(container);If you want to scroll to somewhere, just use a scrollTop
property and update.
container.scrollTop = 0;
Ps.update(container);You can also get information about how to use the plugin
from code in the examples directory of the source tree.
As you may already know, perfect-scrollbar was a jQuery plugin. And it is as well. There's a jQuery adaptor and the plugin can be used in the same way it used to be used before.
I also recommend using NPM and CommonJS here, but it's not mandatory.
var $ = require('jquery');
require('perfect-scrollbar/jquery')($);For sure, you can just import a built script.
<script src='dist/js/perfect-scrollbar.jquery.js'></script>After importing it, you can use the plugin in the usual way.
$('#container').perfectScrollbar(); // Initialize
$('#container').perfectScrollbar({ ... }); // with options
$('#container').perfectScrollbar('update'); // Update
$('#container').perfectScrollbar('destroy'); // DestroyFor RequireJS loader, no need to write shim, simply import two libs:
require.config({
paths: {
perfectScrollbarJQuery: '.../perfect-scrollbar.jquery',
perfectScrollbar: '.../perfect-scrollbar',
}
...
})and load perfectScrollbar in the initialiser of your app:
// for vanilla JS:
window.Ps = require('perfectScrollbar');
// for jQuery:
require('perfectScrollbarJQuery');With the require.config settings above, at the beginning of your app module definition, you can have following code:
define([
'angular',
'perfectScrollbar',
'perfectScrollbarJquery'
],
function (angular) {
var app = angular.module('myApp', []);
app.run(function () {
window.Ps = require('perfectScrollbar');
require('perfectScrollbarJQuery');
});
return app;
});And initialise perfectScrollbar in a controller:
// by vanilla JS:
var container = document.getElementById('imgLoader');
Ps.initialize(container);
Ps.update(container);
// or by jQuery:
var imgLoader = $('#imgLoader')
imgLoader.perfectScrollbar();perfect-scrollbar supports optional parameters.
It is a list of handlers to use to scroll the element.
Default: ['click-rail', 'drag-scrollbar', 'keyboard', 'wheel', 'touch']
Disabled by default: 'selection'
The scroll speed applied to mousewheel event.
Default: 1
If this option is true, when the scroll reaches the end of the side, mousewheel event will be propagated to parent element.
Default: false
If this option is true, when the scroll reaches the end of the side, touch scrolling will be propagated to parent element.
Default: true
When set to an integer value, the thumb part of the scrollbar will not shrink below that number of pixels.
Default: null
When set to an integer value, the thumb part of the scrollbar will not expand over that number of pixels.
Default: null
When set to true, and only one (vertical or horizontal) scrollbar is visible then both vertical and horizontal scrolling will affect the scrollbar.
Default: false
When set to true, the scroll bar in X axis will not be available, regardless of the content width.
Default: false
When set to true, the scroll bar in Y axis will not be available, regardless of the content height.
Default: false
The number of pixels the content width can surpass the container width without enabling the X axis scroll bar. Allows some "wiggle room" or "offset break", so that X axis scroll bar is not enabled just because of a few pixels.
Default: 0
The number of pixels the content height can surpass the container height without enabling the Y axis scroll bar. Allows some "wiggle room" or "offset break", so that Y axis scroll bar is not enabled just because of a few pixels.
Default: 0
When set to false, when clicking on a rail, the click event will be allowed to propagate.
Default: true
A string. It's a class name added to the container element. The class name is prepended with ps-theme-. So default theme class name is ps-theme-default. In order to create custom themes with scss use ps-container($theme) mixin, where $theme is a scss map.
Default: 'default'
Example 1:
Add theme parameter:
Ps.initialize(container, {
theme: 'my-theme-name'
});Create a class name prefixed with .ps-theme-. Include ps-container() mixin. It's recommended to use map-merge() to extend $ps-theme-default map with your custom styles.
.ps-theme-my-theme-name {
@include ps-container(map-merge($ps-theme-default, (
border-radius: 0,
scrollbar-x-rail-height: 20px,
scrollbar-x-height: 20px,
scrollbar-y-rail-width: 20px,
scrollbar-y-width: 20px
)));
}Example 2:
Alternatively, if you don't want to create your own themes, but only modify the default one, you could simply overwrite $ps-* variables with your own values. In this case theme parameter is not required when calling .initialize() method. Remember do define your own variables before the theme.scss file is imported.
perfect-scrollbar dispatches custom events.
This event fires when the y-axis is scrolled in either direction.
This event fires when the x-axis is scrolled in either direction.
This event fires when scrolling upwards.
This event fires when scrolling downwards.
This event fires when scrolling to the left.
This event fires when scrolling to the right.
This event fires when scrolling reaches the start of the y-axis.
This event fires when scrolling reaches the end of the y-axis (useful for infinite scroll).
This event fires when scrolling reaches the start of the x-axis.
This event fires when scrolling reaches the end of the x-axis.
You can listen to these events either with vanilla JavaScript
document.addEventListener('ps-scroll-x', function () {
// ...
})or with jQuery
$(document).on('ps-scroll-x', function () {
// ...
})You can natively scroll children inside perfect-scrollbar with the mouse-wheel. Scrolling automatically works if
the child is a textarea. All other elements need to have the ps-child class. This is demonstrated in /examples/children-native-scroll.html
The plugin is designed to work in modern browsers, including the very latest version of IE and Edge. Specifically, it should work in IEs >= IE10. If there is any issue in the browsers, please file it.
The patches to fix problems in IE<=9 won't be accepted.
When old IEs should be supported, please fork the project and make patches personally.
If you have any idea to improve this project or any problem using this, please feel free to upload an issue.
For common problems there is a FAQ wiki page. Please check the page before uploading an issue.
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