por Navigating a web page can make or break the user experience. At we believe it is important that, when designing our websites, we think not only about how our elements look, but also how moving between them is experienced. Thus, In this post, we explain what scroll-behavior is in CSS or simply scrollbehavior and how to use it to create smoother, more enjoyable scrolling between sections of your website.
What is scroll-behavior in CSS?
When creating a menu with which we scroll through the same page, we must take into account how this scrolling will look like. If we leave the basic menu, which only contains a list of links to each section, scrolling can look clunky and fast. Thus, There is a trend to modify the automatic scrolling of web pages.
The end result is that the page scrolls initially fast and then slower as you approach the section. This happens within a second, but before CSS we needed hours to program it. A while ago we only knew how to do it with JavaScript, and we had to do it with a lot of lines of code with position calculations, subtractions and multiplications of objects that are seen and not seen.. Now, CSS has given us a hand.
The scroll-behavior in CSS is a property that allows us to make jumps on the page using less abrupt and more pleasant scrolling, all with a single line of code.
How to apply scroll-behavior in CSS?
The scroll-behavior property in CSS has two options: car (css automatic scroll ) and smooth. The displacement car It happens immediately, jumping from one section to another without any movement between the two. We do not usually use this setting, since, as the name suggests, the browser will use this option automatically.
The option smooth scroll represents the option of creating a smooth and pleasant scrolling like the one we described above. Note that this property will only work if applied to scrolling caused by navigation or DOM APIs. This means that, if navigation is not an event of the DOM, of the HTML itself, scrolling will not work. Additionally, when this property is specified on the root element, it is applied to the viewport. That is, the style will be applied to the containing element where the scrolling occurs. In most cases, this element is the bodysuitwhich is contained in the viewport. This is written as <:root {scroll-behavior: smooth}>.
If you want this option to always apply to your web page, we recommend writing it in your reset.css file, a very useful file for determining global styles and display properties. A file reset It is a separate CSS document in which you will write all the general properties of your web page, such as the font-family, box-sizingmaximum image width, borders and padding. You can insert this file into all your web pages so you don’t have to rewrite properties that you always use and want to apply.
And so, by inserting a single property, we get more pleasant navigation and a better user experience.
What is the next step?
Now that you know how the scroll-behavior property works in CSS and how to use it to create a more pleasant browsing experience, The time has come for you to put it into practice on your own website! As we know that you are interested in web development, we recommend our Full Stack Web Development Bootcamp so that you can continue learning about this area of the IT sector until you become an expert.
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