How to do an infinite scroll in plain Javascript
I want to avoid using jQuery or another library for the sake of keeping my code minimal, I need very little in the way of features, I just want to append to a list when the user scrolls to the bottom. How would I do this in plain Javascript?
Answer
Basicaly you just need to hook the event scroll, check if the user scrolled down enough and add some content if so:
<html><body>
<div id="test">scroll to understand</div>
<div id="wrapper" style="height: 400px; overflow: auto;">
<div id="content"> </div>
</div>
<script language="JavaScript">
// we will add this content, replace for anything you want to add
var more = '<div style="height: 1000px; background: #EEE;"></div>';
var wrapper = document.getElementById("wrapper");
var content = document.getElementById("content");
var test = document.getElementById("test");
content.innerHTML = more;
// cross browser addEvent, today you can safely use just addEventListener
function addEvent(obj,ev,fn) {
if(obj.addEventListener) obj.addEventListener(ev,fn,false);
else if(obj.attachEvent) obj.attachEvent("on"+ev,fn);
}
// this is the scroll event handler
function scroller() {
// print relevant scroll info
test.innerHTML = wrapper.scrollTop+"+"+wrapper.offsetHeight+"+100>"+content.offsetHeight;
// add more contents if user scrolled down enough
if(wrapper.scrollTop+wrapper.offsetHeight+100>content.offsetHeight) {
content.innerHTML+= more;
}
}
// hook the scroll handler to scroll event
addEvent(wrapper,"scroll",scroller);
</script>
</body></html>