How to create a parallax scrolling website using Skrollr.js | Tutorial Today’s parallax website tutorial is a detailed explanation of the Parallax Scrolling Effect using Skrollr.js published a few weeks ago. You will learn how to create a simple parallax scrolling website using Skrollr.js plugin. If you haven’t seen the demo already, go and check it out. It will give you a clear understanding of what we are talking about in the sections below. View Demo Introduction To develop a parallax scrolling website can be a bit scary especially if you do it for the first time, but as you know the practice makes perfect. Please note, that this tutorial is suitable for a more advanced developers and attached files are the final files. 1. As a first step we need to include Skrollr.js preferably before the closing body tag. Initiate the Skrollr inside of the _main.js file. Now lets have a look at the markup and Skrollr settings of the individual slides. 2. Section height – 100% of the viewport, resized on page load Is this your first project using Skrollr? 3. 4. 5. 6.
Skrollr Tutorial | How To Create A Scrolling Slideshow In this tutorial we will create a scrolling website containing 4 fullscreen sections with images and a short description. We’ll use Skrollr.js and to animate CSS3 transform: translate() of a large container to create smooth scrolling transitions between the slides. View Demo Download Files What you’ll learn how to lay out your htmlhow to use Skrollr for horizontal animationshow to pause a scrolling animationhow to animate like David Copperfieldand much more Related Screencast Busy working on your own project? 1:22 – 1. Open the starting files, watch the video and follow the steps below. 1. This will be our full width, full height container with an overflow hidden. body and html are both resized to 100% width and height. #slides is a container that will include all 4 slides. Again it takes up the whole screen. 2. Next we’ll add 4 divs .slide and set the width and height to 50%. This will make sure we can layout all 4 of these containers into each corner of the parent #slides. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
Advanced Parallax Scrolling Effect Get Source View Demo Introduction Previously, we looked at a simple implementation of parallax scrolling. In that tutorial, the background remained fixed while the foreground scrolled as normal. We used only CSS to achieve this, covering the available space with big and bold background images. The Markup & Structure Our markup is the exact same as before. <section class="module parallax parallax-1"><div class="container"><h1>Motion</h1></div></section><section class="module content"><div class="container"><h2>Lorem Ipsum Dolor</h2><p>Lorem ipsum dolor... Each section with a class of parallax will contain our background images and heading text, while each section with a class of content will be simple content-containing sections. Side Note – Background Image Selection In the simple parallax tutorial, we used big background images and had them cover the available space. The CSS Our CSS in this case will be slightly different. As it stands, everything will scroll as normal. Voila! Wrap Up
Deepetching hair Making a selection is easier, faster, and more precise than ever in the new Select and Mask space you'll find in the latest version of Photoshop CC. In this example, we'll hide the background of the top layer to reveal the content in the layer below. I can start by choosing any selection tool in my toolbar and then click the Select and Mask button in the Options bar above where even without a selection active, I can come to the Select menu and choose Select and Mask. This will open the Select and Mask space where you'll find the tools you need for making and refining selections all in one space. We'll start with the Quick Selection tool in the upper left here. On the right side of my screen, I can move up the Transparency slider to preview my end results, move it all the way down to see a full view of the layer or move it somewhere in between to get a mix of the two. At this point, I'm might want to change the view. Finally, I can choose what kind of output I'd like from this menu.
Simple Parallax Scrolling Effect Get Source View Demo A Brief Introduction Parallax is an effect where the position of an object seems to be different when viewed from different positions. As far as the web goes, we can induce a parallax effect on containers that have background images and text above them. The Markup & Structure If you had a fixed width site that was non-responsive, then there would be no trickery to achieve this. <section class="module parallax parallax-1"><div class="container"><h1>Serene</h1></div></section><section class="module content"><div class="container"><h2>Lorem Ipsum Dolor</h2><p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit... Each section with a class of parallax will contain our background images and heading text, while each section with a class of content will be simple content-containing sections. Styling & Making It Work With CSS The first point to note is that all of my background images have a width of 1600px and height of 600px. Browser Support & Property Info Wrap Up
Parallax backgrounds with centered content · Minimit Responsive parallax background images with content centering and overflow Here's a simple and customizzable Css and jQuery solution to achieve parallax scrolling background animations like on spotify It's based on the fullscreen backgrounds with centered content solution and they shares some of the code, and the same features like: vertical and orizzontal centering of content, content overflow (the background scale to fit content if it's higher than the window) and also do fullscreen backgrounds relative to the container (by using .not-fullscreen class instead of .fullscreen) The parallax is disabled on touch devices, because it doesn't work with the touch scrolling, but it gracefully degrade to full-size images, like the fullscreen background solution. If you don't need centered content you can remove the .content-a and .content-b tags and Css. The Markup You have to apply the background-image style using the url of the image you want as background. The Css The jQuery
Pure CSS Parallax Websites This article demonstrates how to use CSS transforms, perspective and some scaling trickery to create a pure CSS parallax scrolling website. If you find this article useful and want to explore CSS Parallax further, you may find my follow-up article "Practical CSS Parallax" an interesting read. Parallax is almost always handled with JavaScript and, more often than not, it's implemented badly with the worst offenders listening for the scroll event and modifying the DOM directly in the handler, triggering needless reflows and paints. All this happens out of sync with the browsers rendering pipeline causing dropped frames and stuttering. It's not all bad though, requestAnimationFrame and deferring DOM updates can transform parallax websites - but what if you could remove the JavaScript dependency completely? Deferring the parallax effect to CSS removes all these issues and allows the browser to leverage hardware acceleration resulting in almost everything being handled by the compositor.
Creating Scrolling Parallax Effects with CSS While this solution is elegant on desktop computers, it does not function on mobile devices. To create a mobile-compatible pure CSS parallax scrolling effect, please visit this post by Keith Clark. I generally dislike ESPN because they're the McDonalds of sports news but they recently did a piece on Luis Suarez that was eye-catching. Introduction For quite a long time now websites with the so called "parallax" effect have been really popular. In web design, the most common way to achieve this is by simply adding a jQuery plugin to a website. In short: parallax done with JavaScript can decrease the scrolling performance of a website quite quickly. background-position: fixed to the Rescue What only a few people may know, is that this effect can be achieved via CSS, too. To get this parallax effect, background images have to be placed on different elements. The initial value of the property is scroll, which basically means that the image position is fixed to its element. Sum up