Window: scrollsnapchanging event

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This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

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Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

The scrollsnapchanging event of the Window interface is fired on the window when the browser determines a new scroll snap target is pending, i.e., it will be selected when the current scroll gesture ends.

This event works in much the same way as the Element interface's scrollsnapchanging event, except that the overall HTML document has to be set as the scroll snap container (i.e., scroll-snap-type is set on the <html> element).

Syntax

Use the event name in methods like addEventListener(), or set an event handler property.

addEventListener("scrollsnapchanging", (event) => { })

onscrollsnapchanging = (event) => { }

Event type

A SnapEvent, which inherits from the generic Event type.

Examples

Basic usage

Let's say we have a <main> element containing significant content that causes it to scroll:

html

<main>
  <!-- Significant content -->
</main>

The <main> element can be turned into a scroll container using a combination of CSS properties, for example:

css

main {
  width: 250px;
  height: 450px;
  overflow: scroll;
}

We can then implement scroll snapping behavior on the scrolling content by specifying the scroll-snap-type property on the <html> element:

css

html {
  scroll-snap-type: block mandatory;
}

The following JavaScript snippet would cause the scrollsnapchanging event to fire on the HTML document when a child of the <main> element becomes a pending snap target. In the handler function, we set a pending class on the child referenced by the snapTargetBlock property, which could be used to style it differently when the event fires.

window.addEventListener("scrollsnapchanging", (event) => {
  // remove previously-set "pending" classes
  const pendingElems = document.querySelectorAll(".pending");
  pendingElems.forEach((elem) => {
    elem.classList.remove("pending");
  });

  // Set current pending snap target class to "pending"
  event.snapTargetBlock.classList.add("pending");
});

At the start of the function, we select all elements that previously had the pending class applied and remove it, so that only the most recent pending snap target is styled.

Specifications

Specification
CSS Scroll Snap Module Level 2 # scrollsnapchanging

Browser compatibility

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