Hide NavBar as Scroll down, in less than 10 lines of javascript;

You must have seen this effect on several website, where you scroll down and navigation bar automatically hides and reappears when scroll up.

So here's basic page in which I have implemented this,in just 10 lines of javascript.

 lastScrollTop;
navbar = document.getElementById('navbar');
window.addEventListener('scroll',function(){
  var scrollTop = window.pageYOffset || document.documentElement.scrollTop;
  if(scrollTop > lastScrollTop){
    navbar.style.top='-80px';
  }
  else{
    navbar.style.top='0';
  }
  lastScrollTop = scrollTop;
});

How it's working

Here, the position of the navbar is being altered using javascript.

First we create a variable which stores position of Page;

Then we get the scroll position using: window.pageYOffset or for some browser 'document.documentElement.scrollTop';

Then check that weather the page is scrolled up or down;

Then save the scroll vale to the variable;

This is done every time whenever the page is scrolled, as all this lies under a EventListener.

Check the JS in codepen it will make it more clear

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Areeb ur Rub ・ May 20 '21

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Comments

[Paweł Kowalski]

I think if you removed all your javascript, so its 0 lines of javascript, and removed position:fixed; from css it would hide as well while scrolling. ;)

[Areeb ur Rub]

Nice Suggestion, but then it won't appear again when scroll up and you have to reach the Navigation bar back to top.

The Navigation bar is something which should be easily accessible, don't you think after scrolling on a long feed user want NavBar to move to the another page instantly.

Hope you get my point 😄

[Muhammad Hasnain]

Sure but if a user has scrolled down and want to access navigation bar, what happens then? Think a little about UX. ;)

[Paweł Kowalski]

Im thinking about UX, thats why i propose not using js in this case. ;)

[R-W-C]

Thanks for this. Really appreciated.

The jquery version taking all comments in concern ;-)

$(document).ready(function() {
    onScroll();
});

function onScroll() {   
    var lastScrollTop, $bar = $('#navbar') , height = $bar.height(), 
        $window = $(window), offset = 10;

    $window.on('scroll',function()  {       
        var scrollTop = $window.scrollTop();
        $bar.css({ top: scrollTop > lastScrollTop && scrollTop > offset ? -height : 0 });
        lastScrollTop = scrollTop; 
    });     
}

[Jon Randy 🎖️]

I think it needs some refinement - you lose the menu if you scroll down so much as 1 pixel. Similar functionality on websites is more complex than this

[Muhammad Hasnain]

I agree with Areeb. You could write an entire library just to handle the navigation bar and add more complexity but I don't think that's the point. Most of the posts here are written by beginners, for beginners.

[Jon Randy 🎖️]

Well, you could add one or two lines to stop it disappearing when you scroll as little as one pixel down, which is just plain irritating for the the user

[Areeb ur Rub]

Right, it can be conplex but it's the simplest way to do so.

[sirhenryhu]

Hi Areeb, thanks for sharing this. I'm trying to make a bottom sticky nav menu for mobile devices and tried your code but it only works for the ones sticky to the top. Could you please enlighten me on how to achieve the goal for the bottom sticky nav menu hiding on scroll down and slide out on scroll up?

[vincent-shtick]

You should change the if statement to also include an offset since if the bar disapears immediatly it might look strange ui wise

if(scrollTop > lastScrollTop && scrollTop > your desired offset){

[Blinkeu Jennie 2016]

Its not working on safari. The navbar jumps to the top when scrolling all the way up

[Aleksejs Aleksejevs]

This is because of safari elastic scrolling/bounce effect, you need to be very precise to scroll it to the top.
Just add
if(scrollTop > lastScrollTop && scrollTop > 10)

And it should be fine

[irène]

In this way you trigger scroll event a lot of times. I suggest to use throttle on it and find a way to also detect the scroll position.