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Make it stick! Sticky headers in CSS πŸ¦ŽπŸ”

Rob OLeary on April 13, 2020

CSS introduced the property position: sticky in 2012, one obvious application of this is for making sticky headers. The idea is straightforward: ...
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Hussein Kizz

The reading progress bar is so cool, how can I use it? Please!

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Rob OLeary • Edited

Hi Hussein, The code is available inside the codepen example. You can see the code by clicking on the tabs (HTML, CSS, JS). It requires some JS to work. So just keep this in mind if you want to use it yourself

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Hussein Kizz

Yeah I saw the resource button after you know am new here! But thanks for sharing and another thing you mean it can't work with just html css and JavaScript only??

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Rob OLeary • Edited

No worries Hussein! This example requires JS because the progress bar is updated based on the position of the scrollbar of the window, this is not possible to do in CSS. The other examples use CSS only. I will add this to the post, so it is clear for everyone!

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Hussein Kizz • Edited

K thanks for that great post!! But isn't there any way I can use plain J's without importing the jQuery cause my blog where I wanted to do that it's a bit difficult!

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Rob OLeary

Yes. You can make a few changes to the code, so it is plain JS. Then, you do not need to use JQuery.

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Hussein Kizz

Yeah that can work for me, you know am not so fluent with JavaScript so hope you can help me there cause I just want to use that bar on my blog.

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Barry Pollard • Edited

Safari 13 doesn't require the prefix btw. Though Safari 12 does.

PR for caniuse update: github.com/Fyrd/caniuse/pull/5360

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Rob OLeary

Nice! πŸ’―

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Barry Pollard

No probs. You also helped me add support for older iOS users for a feature I'm just implementing by reminding me of vendor prefixes for them as some iOS devices stuck with v12 and can't upgrade. So thanks right back at you! πŸ˜€

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Ernest Sakala

This is nice

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Rob OLeary

thank you πŸ™‚

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Wahdan

Support for the new features is faster nowadays, thanks for the article πŸ‘

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Rob OLeary • Edited

Yes, thankfully! Im glad it was helpful :-)