jQuery - bind event on Scroll Stop

Question

If i want to bind an event on page scrolling i can use scroll();.

But how to fire when scroll() is ended up?

I would like to reproduce this:

   $(window).scroll(function(){
    //do somenthing
    });

    $(window).scrollSTOPPED(function(){  //--> when i'm scrolling then i stop to scrolling (so NOT when page scrollbar is at the end top or bottom :)
    //do somenthing else
    });

any ideas?

Answer 1

tiny jquery way

$.fn.scrollStopped = function(callback) {
  var that = this, $this = $(that);
  $this.scroll(function(ev) {
    clearTimeout($this.data('scrollTimeout'));
    $this.data('scrollTimeout', setTimeout(callback.bind(that), 250, ev));
  });
};

After 250 ms from the last scroll event, this will invoke the "scrollStopped" callback.

http://jsfiddle.net/wtRrV/256/

lodash (even smaller)

function onScrollStopped(domElement, callback) {
  domElement.addEventListener('scroll', _.debounce(callback, 250));
}

http://jsfiddle.net/hotw1o2j/

pure js (technically the smallest)

function onScrollStopped(domElement, callback, timeout = 250) {
  domElement.addEventListener('scroll', () => {
    clearTimeout(callback.timeout);
    callback.timeout = setTimeout(callback, timeout);
  });
}

https://jsfiddle.net/kpsxdcv8/15/

strange fact

clearTimeout and clearInterval params don't have to be defined and can even be wrong types or even omitted.

http://jsfiddle.net/2w5zLwvx/

Answer 2

the event itself doesn't exist as scroll is a single event fired everytime the user scrolls by a certain increment.

What you can do however is emulate the event.

Credit to James Padolsey for this, lifted from his webpage:. Read it here to fully understand the code and how it is implemented.

http://james.padolsey.com/javascript/special-scroll-events-for-jquery/

(function(){

var special = jQuery.event.special,
    uid1 = 'D' + (+new Date()),
    uid2 = 'D' + (+new Date() + 1);

special.scrollstart = {
    setup: function() {

        var timer,
            handler =  function(evt) {

                var _self = this,
                    _args = arguments;

                if (timer) {
                    clearTimeout(timer);
                } else {
                    evt.type = 'scrollstart';
                    jQuery.event.handle.apply(_self, _args);
                }

                timer = setTimeout( function(){
                    timer = null;
                }, special.scrollstop.latency);

            };

        jQuery(this).bind('scroll', handler).data(uid1, handler);

    },
    teardown: function(){
        jQuery(this).unbind( 'scroll', jQuery(this).data(uid1) );
    }
};

special.scrollstop = {
    latency: 300,
    setup: function() {

        var timer,
                handler = function(evt) {

                var _self = this,
                    _args = arguments;

                if (timer) {
                    clearTimeout(timer);
                }

                timer = setTimeout( function(){

                    timer = null;
                    evt.type = 'scrollstop';
                    jQuery.event.handle.apply(_self, _args);

                }, special.scrollstop.latency);

            };

        jQuery(this).bind('scroll', handler).data(uid2, handler);

    },
    teardown: function() {
        jQuery(this).unbind( 'scroll', jQuery(this).data(uid2) );
    }
};   })();

Probably worth noting that there are several questions related to yours, so this may be a possible duplication. e.g. Javascript: do an action after user is done scrolling and Fire event after scrollling scrollbars or mousewheel with javascript