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Divi’s sticky options allow you to effortlessly add interaction to the pages you create and design. If you’re looking for a way to mention multiple items without just creating a static list, you’ll enjoy this tutorial. Today, we’re showing you how to build an interactive list on scroll using Divi’s sticky options. As people are scrolling down the section, different items are added to the list on the left. This helps keep an overview. You’ll be able to download the free JSON file as well!
Let’s get to it.
Preview
Before we dive into the tutorial, let’s take a quick look at the outcome across different screen sizes.
Desktop
Mobile
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Create Element Structure
Add New Section
Background Color
Start by adding a new section to the page you’re working on. Add a background color to the section.
Background Color: #f2f2f2
Add Row
Column Structure
Continue by adding a new row using the following column structure:
Sizing
Without adding modules yet, open the row settings and change the sizing settings as follows:
Width: 100%
Max Width: 100%
Column 1 Background Color
Then, open the column 1 settings and add a background color.
Background Color: #f2f2f2
Column 1 Spacing
Modify the column’s spacing settings next.
Top Padding:
Tablet: 20px
Phone: 20px
Bottom Padding:
Tablet: 20px
Phone: 20px
Left Padding: 3%
Right Padding: 3%
Column 1 Z Index
And increase the column’s z index in the advanced tab.
Z Index: 12
Add Text Module #1 to Column 1
Add Content
Time to add modules, starting with a first Text Module in column 1. Add some content of your choice.
Text Settings
Move on to the module’s design tab and change the text settings as follows:
Text Font: Playfair Display
Text Font Weight: Bold
Text Font Style: Italic
Text Color: #bfbfbf
Text Size:
Desktop: 2vw
Tablet: 5vw
Phone: 8vw
Text Line Height: 1em
Add Text Module #2 to Column 2
Add H3 Content
Add another Text Module to the column with some H3 content of your choice.
H3 Text Settings
Move on to the module’s design tab and change the H3 text settings as follows:
Heading 3 Font: Playfair Display
Heading 3 Font Weight: Bold
Heading 3 Text Color: #000000
Heading 3 Text Size:
Desktop: 3vw
Tablet: 10vw
Phone: 12vw
Spacing
Add some custom top and bottom margin next.
Top Margin: 2vh
Bottom Margin: 2vh
Transform Scale
Then, apply some custom transform scale settings.
Both: 300%
Transform Translate
And complete the module settings by applying the following transform translate settings:
Bottom: 30%
Add Divider Module to Column 1
Visibility
The last module we need in column 1 is a Divider Module. Make sure the “Show Divider” option is enabled.
Show Divider: Yes
Line
Move on to the module’s design tab and change the line settings accordingly:
Line Color: #000000
Line Style: Solid
Line Position: Top
Sizing
Modify the module’s sizing settings too.
Divider Weight: 4px
Divider Height: 4px
Add Image Module to Column 2
Leave Image Box Empty
In column 2, the first module we’ll add is an Image Module. Leave the image box empty.
Background Image
Use a background image instead.
Background Image Size: Cover
Background Image Position: Center
Spacing
And to allow the background image to show up, we’ll modify the spacing settings as follows:
Top Margin:
Desktop: 15vh
Tablet & Phone: 0vh
Top Padding: 33vh
Bottom Padding: 33vh
Add Text Module to Column 2
Add Content
The next and last module we need is a Text Module below the Image Module. Add some description content of your choice.
Text Settings
Move on to the module’s design tab and change the text settings as follows:
Text Font: Cabin
Text Color: #000000
Text Size:
Desktop: 1.2vw
Tablet: 2.3vw
Phone: 3.4vw
Text Line Height: 1.6em
Spacing
Complete the module settings by changing the module’s spacing settings accordingly:
Left Padding:
Tablet & Phone: 5%
Right Padding: 5%
Apply Sticky Effects
Turn Column #1 Sticky
Now that all elements are in place, we can start applying the sticky settings. Open the column 1 settings and use the following responsive sticky settings in the advanced tab:
Sticky Position: Stick to Top
Bottom Sticky Limit
Desktop: Section
Tablet & Phone: Row
Offset From Surrounding Sticky Elements:
Desktop: Yes
Tablet & Phone: No
Transition Default and Sticky Styles: Yes
Text Module #1 in Column #1: Sticky Settings
Height
Now that column 1 has been turned sticky, we can start applying some sticky settings to the elements inside this column. We’ll start with the first Text Module’s height.
Height: 0px
Sticky Height: Auto
Opacity
We’re modifying the opacity too.
Opacity: 0%
Sticky Opacity: 100%
Text Module #2 in Column #1: Sticky Settings
Transform Scale
Next, we’ll open the second Text Module in column 1. Bring back the transform scale values to “100%” in a sticky state.
Sticky Both: 100%
Transform Translate
Change the sticky transform translate settings too.
Sticky Bottom: 0%
Transition
And complete the module settings by increasing the transition duration in the advanced tab.
Transition: 1000ms
Divider Module: Sticky Settings
Max Width
Last but not least, we’ll also modify the Divider Module’s max width.
Max Width: 0px
Sticky Max Width: 120px
Clone Row Twice
Once your first row has been completed, you can clone it twice.
Change All Content & Images
Make sure you change all content and images and you’re done!
Preview
Now that we’ve gone through all the steps, let’s take a final look at the outcome across different screen sizes.
Desktop
Mobile
Final Thoughts
In this post, we’ve shown you how to get creative with Divi’s sticky options. More specifically, we’ve shown you how to build an interactive list on scroll. As people are scrolling down the section design, different items of your list are collected on the left side. This gives a structured overview and helps you create an interactive design. You can use this approach for any type of list you want to share on your pages! You were able to download the JSON file for free as well. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to leave a comment in the comment section below.
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One of the best jokes out there about being a web developer is that you spend 20% of your time coding. And the other 80% searching the internet for solutions to problems you run into. It’s not terribly untrue, either, if a bit hyperbolic. Thanks to tools like Can I Use, that time searching can be considerably cut down.
What is CanIUse?
With this tool, the question of whether or not a particular technology on your website is compatible with specific browsers is laid out in a simple, easy-to-read chart that can help you more easily make design and development decisions. Primarily built and maintained by Alexis Deveria and designed by Lennart Schoors, CanIUse is an open-source project that anyone can contribute to with even as small an effort as contributing info to the database.
Using the tool is simple. With a simple search of a property, parameter, or feature, caniuse.com will tell you precisely what browsers and versions support that technology. CanIUse also lets you know variants of the property that you’re looking for. That way you know which kinds of media queries, for instance, are supported by which browsers.
And to what extent. The compatibility charts also indicate not only whether the browser supports the technology or not, but also whether to what extent, in case there’s partial compatibility in certain versions.
Why Should You Use CanIUse?
Well, for starters, you should use it if you want to give your clients, customers, and visitors the best experience possible. When trying to decide if you should use hover effects, transparencies, jquery on-clicks, or even automatic dark-mode switching.
If you build a website with all the bells and whistles that you can think of, making a beautiful design that’s more art than app, then you have done something amazing. But if your primary demographic still uses Internet Explorer 6 (shudder), then not only will your design and development time be wasted, but your website will be fundamentally broken. The visitors might not even be able to function at its most basic levels.
Admittedly, most (but not all unfortunately) of your visitors will be using something far more modern than IE6. However, the number of different browsers in use is huge. Tablet, mobile, and desktop in varying versions. And well, it’s worth taking a look if your upcoming site (or even your existing site) is serving your audience’s best interests).
How to Use CanIUse
The workflow for the website is absurdly straightforward, and the UI is about as easy-to-read as it gets.
Taking a look at the above screenshot, you can enter whatever technology you want into the search field. We’ve found the best results for using the specific syntax you use in your code. Not a semantic, human-readable term. Such as in (1), prefers-color-scheme instead of dark mode switching CSS.
The description CanIUse gives (2) also makes it so that if you’re doing research on a technology, you see exactly what it is and what it does and how it interacts with the DOM.
One of the most useful parts of CanIUse is the Notes (3) tab at the bottom of any particular entry. It’s not technical information, per se, it’s more of a reminder that there might be some considerations that you can’t see in a colored version chart.
When you hover over a particular browser version (let’s use the infamous Internet Explorer 6 as an example), a pop-up (4) appears with lots of info. The total global usage of that version, whether it’s still being supported by the developers, and an ability to test the tech using BrowserStack simulation. That last bit is important. Seeing how unsupported features render may show you ways to troubleshoot it.
And sometimes the Notes (5) tab will also show you that a particular kind of feature has been deprecated. In the example above @media query has been deprecated. Because there’s a dark-mode/light-mode query that works on its own.
How to Find What Browsers Your Audience Uses
With all that in mind, you can see which browsers are supported for any given technology you want to use. But how does that necessarily apply to your users? You can use Google Analytics to dig into what browser and operating system (OS) your visitors use so that you can make sure to be as compatible as possible.
First, navigate to the Audience section of your left-hand sidebar. Then expand Technology and click Browser & OS.
As you see the breakdown of users and the browsers they use to access your site. These days, almost every site is going to be Chrome and Safari at the top. Chrome because it’s the standard among desktop users (and default on Android devices). And Safari because iPhones default to it. (As well as MacOS).
Clicking into a browser (3) can let you see which version (literal point releases) of the browsers are being used. If you notice, there are a lot of differences in the versions below. From 12.x all the way to 604.x. That’s a big gap. It indicates there’s a difference OS usage. So click on Other (4) and scroll in the drop-down menu. Find Operating System.
Sort by Operating System now. Now you will see how much of that traffic is mobile and how much of it is desktop.
With that information in hand, you can then go back to Caniuse.com and make sure that any technology on your site works like it should for the highest percentage of your users.
Wrapping Up with CanIUse
So the next time you’re looking at Divi and one of our sweet new features or reading a css tutorial and find something new to play with, check out caniuse.com. It may take a while for some tech to be recognized by some browsers. But if the majority of your audience comes from browsers that support new and fun features, Can I Use absolutely can tell you if you can use it.
What have you found to be the best usage for Can I Use?
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