Affix

Usage

Use the affix plugin via data attributes or manually with your own JavaScript. In both situations, you must provide CSS for the positioning and width of your affixed content.

Note: Do not use the affix plugin on an element contained in a relatively positioned element, such as a pulled or pushed column, due to a Safari rendering bug.

Positioning via CSS

The affix plugin toggles between three classes, each representing a particular state: .affix, .affix-top, and .affix-bottom. You must provide the styles, with the exception of position: fixed; on .affix, for these classes yourself (independent of this plugin) to handle the actual positions.

Here's how the affix plugin works:

1. To start, the plugin adds .affix-top to indicate the element is in its top-most position. At this point no CSS positioning is required.

2. Scrolling past the element you want affixed should trigger the actual affixing. This is where .affix replaces .affix-top and sets position: fixed; (provided by Bootstrap's CSS).

3. If a bottom offset is defined, scrolling past it should replace .affix with .affix-bottom. Since offsets are optional, setting one requires you to set the appropriate CSS. In this case, add position: absolute; when necessary. The plugin uses the data attribute or JavaScript option to determine where to position the element from there.

Follow the above steps to set your CSS for either of the usage options below.

Via data attributes

To easily add affix behavior to any element, just add data-spy="affix" to the element you want to spy on. Use offsets to define when to toggle the pinning of an element.

<div data-spy="affix" data-offset-top="60" data-offset-bottom="200">
  ...
</div>

Via JavaScript

Call the affix plugin via JavaScript:

$('#myAffix').affix({
  offset: {
    top: 100,
    bottom: function () {
      return (this.bottom = $('.footer').outerHeight(true))
    }
  }
})

Options

Options can be passed via data attributes or JavaScript. For data attributes, append the option name to data-, as in data-offset-top="200" .

Methods

.affix(options)

Activates your content as affixed content. Accepts an optional options object.

$('#myAffix').affix({
  offset: 15
})

.affix('checkPosition')

Recalculates the state of the affix based on the dimensions, position, and scroll position of the relevant elements. The .affix, .affix-top, and .affix-bottom classes are added to or removed from the affixed content according to the new state. This method needs to be called whenever the dimensions of the affixed content or the target element are changed, to ensure correct positioning of the affixed content.

$('#myAffix').affix('checkPosition')

Events

Bootstrap's affix plugin exposes a few events for hooking into affix functionality.