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Asked: November 27, 20242024-11-27T01:41:08+00:00 2024-11-27T01:41:08+00:00

Dragging to Scroll with JavaScript

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My portfolio has some cards to showcase projects and blog posts. On mobile, these cards display in a horizontal slider, which is easy enough to scroll on a touchscreen, or trackpad, but what if someone is viewing the website at a small size on a device with a mouse? Well they can of course use the circular buttons below the cards, but I wanted to give these users an experience the same as on a touchscreen, allowing them to drag and scroll the card list.

I’ve used the vue-dragscroll library before on another project, but fancied a challenge of doing it myself for my portfolio.

I came across this article, and adapted the code to fit my use-case.

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.scroll-container {   display: grid;   column-gap: 10px;   grid-auto-flow: column;   // We set the grid colums here, a gutter each side, then I have 6 cards so I use the grid repeat function to make 6 equal width columns. The columns are 100vw minus the left and right gutter, and minus the column gap we set above   grid-template-columns: 30px repeat(6, calc(100vw - 80px)) 30px;   // We want to allow the cards to overflow horizontally   overflow-x: auto;   padding: 0;    // This allows snapping to each card, so we don't get stuck half over one card and half over another. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/scroll-snap-type   scroll-snap-type: x mandatory; } .drag-scroll--enabled {   cursor: grab } .drag-scroll--scrolling {   cursor: grabbing;   user-select: none;   // We set the scroll-snap-type to none here to allow for a more natural experience with dragging and scrolling. If we didn't, you wouldn't see any indication that you are scrolling the container   scroll-snap-type: none } 
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<div ref="container" class="row grid scroll-container">   <div class="card">     ...   </div> </div> 
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export default {   data () {     return {       position: {         left: 0,         x: 0       }     }   },   mounted () {     this.dragScrollWatcher()     // We want to listen to the resize listener here to enable/disable the drag to scroll functionality depending on the layout of the page - for example, on my site, the cards are only in a horizontal slider below the 768px breakpoint. I chose to handle this with CSS in case I want to use these functions elsewhere, rather than having these breakpoints set in the JS     window.addEventListener('resize', this.dragScrollWatcher)   },   beforeDestroy () {     // We want to clear up any event listeners when we switch pages     this.stopDragScroll()     window.removeEventListener('resize', this.dragScrollWatcher)   }, methods: {     dragScrollWatcher () {        // We only want to start drag scroll if the following conditions are met       if (!this.hasTouchScreen() && this.hasOverflowAuto()) {         this.startDragScroll()       } else {         this.stopDragScroll()       }     },     startDragScroll () {        // We set a listener for mousedcown so we know when to start the drag and scroll       document.addEventListener('mousedown', this.mouseDownHandler)       //  We set this class on the container to allow the CSS to set some styles such as the cursor: grab       this.$refs.container.classList.add('drag-scroll--enabled')     },     stopDragScroll () {       document.removeEventListener('mousedown', this.mouseDownHandler)       this.$refs.container.classList.remove('drag-scroll--enabled')       // This clears up some event listeners and resets our classes       this.mouseUpHandler()     },     hasTouchScreen () {        // If this is a touch device, scrolling is already easy, so we don't need to enable our drag scroll feature       return ('ontouchstart' in window)     },     hasOverflowAuto () {       /*         Rather than worrying about breakpoints here, we let CSS handle it, as they may be different for each component         If overflow-x: auto is not on the element, then it is not a scrolling element, so we don't need to run DragToScroll       */       return (getComputedStyle(this.$refs.container).getPropertyValue('overflow-x') === 'auto')     },     mouseDownHandler (e) {        // We set a class here to let the CSS know that we are currently scrolling, and to apply the relevant styles, such as the grabbing cursor       this.$refs.container.classList.add('drag-scroll--scrolling')        this.position = {         // The current scroll         left: this.$refs.container.scrollLeft,         // Get the current mouse position         x: e.clientX       }        // We want to listen to the mouse move so we know how much to scroll the container       document.addEventListener('mousemove', this.mouseMoveHandler)        // We want to know when to stop dragging and scrolling       document.addEventListener('mouseup', this.mouseUpHandler)     },     mouseMoveHandler (e) {       // How far the mouse has been moved       const dx = e.clientX - this.position.x        // Scroll the element       this.$refs.container.scrollLeft = this.position.left - dx     },     mouseUpHandler () {        // We don't care about listening to the mouse moving now, so we can remove the listener       document.removeEventListener('mousemove', this.mouseMoveHandler)       // We've just fired this listener, so no need to fire it again       document.removeEventListener('mouseup', this.mouseUpHandler)        // We can now remove the class which means we don't show the styles specific to when we are scrolling       this.$refs.container.classList.remove('drag-scroll--scrolling')     }   } } 
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