dolphin-wood/smooth-scrollbar
Smooth Scrollbar
Smooth-scrollbar is a customizable JavaScript library that replaces native browser scrollbars and scrolling behavior on target DOM elements with inertial momentum physics. It provides consistent cross-browser scrolling interfaces, hardware-accelerated visual translations, and dynamic thumb positioning.
The library supports nested scroll container management, allowing outer containers to continue scrolling automatically when inner scrollable areas reach their boundary edges. It features a modular plugin architecture that enables third-party extensions to hook into core scroll events, track updates, and render cycles.
Additional configuration options allow developers to adjust momentum damping, scrollbar dimensions, track visibility, and rendering precision. The core architecture handles DOM event delegation, continuous animation loops for smooth deceleration curves, and virtual track positioning.
Features
- Scrollbar Components - Replaces standard browser scrollbars with custom, high-performance scrolling interfaces that look and behave consistently.
- CSS Transform Translations - Applies hardware-accelerated CSS transforms to smoothly translate content containers without triggering layout reflows.
- Cross-Browser UI Components - Provides a frontend component offering consistent cross-browser scrollbar styling, nested container chaining, and adjustable physics.
- Inertial Scrolling Physics - Adds smooth inertial scrolling physics and adjustable momentum damping to web page elements for enhanced interactivity.
- DOM Scrolling Plugins - Provides a modular extension tool that overrides standard browser scrolling behavior on target DOM elements with custom momentum physics.
- Scroll Chaining Containers - Chaining multiple scroll areas together so outer containers automatically continue scrolling when inner containers reach their limits.
- Native Scrollbar Hiding - Replaces standard browser scrolling behavior and native scrollbars on target elements with custom inertial scrolling mechanisms.
- Inertial Scrollbar Libraries - Ships a customizable JavaScript library that replaces native browser scrollbars with smooth inertial scrolling and modular plugins.
- RequestAnimationFrame Loops - Runs continuous requestAnimationFrame loops to interpolate scroll positions and render smooth deceleration curves.
- Modular Plugin Architectures - Provides a modular plugin architecture that allows external extensions to hook into core scroll events and render cycles.
- Scrollbar Geometry Calculations - Calculates scrollbar thumb geometry and position dynamically in response to content size changes and current scroll offsets.
- Nested Scroll Coordination - Coordinates nested scrolling by propagating remaining scroll delta to parent containers when inner boundaries are reached.
- Scrollbar Plugin Extensions - Attaches modular plugins and custom extensions to tailor scrollbar features and behavior beyond built-in configuration options.
