Offsetting Anchor Links with Fixed Header

Question

There've been a few similar posts (offsetting an html anchor to adjust for fixed header, for example), but those solution doesn't work for my particular case.

I am using jQuery to populate a Table of Contents, specifically the method described here: http://css-tricks.com/automatic-table-of-contents/. It searches for the h2 tags within the article, and then creates anchors links.

The problem is I'm using a fixed header. When I click on one of these anchor links, the target h2 is underneath the header. One temporary solution I'm using is:

h2:target{
  padding-top:[header-height];
}

This works until you scroll back up, and there's a huge gap in the middle of the content. Do y'all have any ideas on how I can offset these anchor links to account for the header? I'd like to keep the HTML as semantic as possible. Any help would be appreciated.

Here's a jsFiddle of what exactly I'm talking about: http://jsfiddle.net/aweber9/GbNFv/

Thanks.

Answer 1

You could include padding-top and then use negative margin-top to balance it out.

jsFiddle

h2 {
    padding-top: 70px;
    margin-top: -70px;
}