Position fixed when scroll down hopping when the screen is not very big

Question

I'm trying to make my header fixed when the user scroll down. The problem is if the content on the page is not big enough the screen hopping. Also when I scroll to the top again it change from fixed to normal very hard. Can someone help me with this?

window.addEventListener('scroll', function() {
if($(window).scrollTop() == 0) {
    $('.sticky-wrapper').removeClass('stickynow');
} else {
    $('.sticky-wrapper').addClass('stickynow');
}
});

Answer 1

I don't really understand what 'screen hopping' means, but i guess what happens is that when your header becomes position:fixed , it doesn't occupy space anymore so the content moves up to fill that space an thus, 'hopping'.

You should add margin-top to your content ( or whichever element is right after the header in HTML structure ) equal to the header's height.

See below

 window.addEventListener('scroll', function() { let header = $('.sticky-wrapper') if ($(window).scrollTop() == 0) { $(header).removeClass('stickynow'); $('section').css({ 'margin-top': 0 }) } else { $(header).addClass('stickynow'); $('section').css({ 'margin-top': $(header).height() }) } }); 

 header { width: 100%; height: 100px; background: red; } .stickynow { position: fixed; background: blue; top: 0; left: 0; } section { height: 1000px; width: 100%; background: green; } body, html { margin: 0; } 

 <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <header class="sticky-wrapper"></header> <section>Not 'Hopping'</section> 

OPTION B. Without javascript/jQuery

If you don't need to add a class or something else that involves javascript/jQuery, you can have the same result as above, but only with css

 header { position: fixed; background: blue; top: 0; left: 0; height:100px; width:100%; } section { height: 1000px; width: 100%; background: green; margin-top:100px; /*add this*/ } body, html { margin: 0; } 

 <header class="sticky-wrapper"></header> <section>Not 'Hopping'</section>