How To Make Floating Widget on your Blog
Floating widget is a great widget, when visitors scroll down to a website then they can see the widget bar is floating to down. I have coded this widget for all kinds of widget that can be able to make float. And more importantly it won't use any hosted JavaScript (.js) file, so it won't affect your templates loading time. And I have use this code to make floating popular post widget. Let's go to tutorial
HOW TO FIND THE WIDGET ID
Finding your each and every widget ID is very simple. Just log into your Blogger account and visit your blog. Now you can see the QuickEdit icon on bottom left corner of the every widget.
Now Click On Right Button and Click on Copy Link Location and Paste is in Notepad.
The code will be like below--
Step 1 Go to your Blogger Dashboard
Step 2 Click on -> Template -> Edit HTML
Step 3 Now Find this code </body> by pressing Ctrl + F
Step 4 Paste the below code Before/above </body>
<script>
// Floating Widget By www.bloggerspice.com
//<![CDATA[
bsfloatingwidget("PopularPosts1"); // enter your widget ID here
function bsfloatingwidget(elem) {
var bsfloat = document.getElementById(elem);
var scrollee = document.createElement("div");
bsfloat.parentNode.insertBefore(scrollee, bsfloat);
var width = bsfloat.offsetWidth;
var iniClass = bsfloat.className + ' bsfloat';
window.addEventListener('scroll', bsfloating, false);
function bsfloating() {
var rect = scrollee.getBoundingClientRect();
if (rect.top < 0) {
bsfloat.className = iniClass + ' bsfloating';
bsfloat.style.width = width + "px";
} else {
bsfloat.className = iniClass;
}
}
}
//]]>
</script>
<style>
.bsfloating {background:#f2f2f2 !important; position:fixed; top:0; z-index:9999; box-shadow:0px 10px 4px -5px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);}
</style>
CUSTOMIZATION
- Change PopularPosts1 with widget ID.
- Change f2f2f2 for floating widget background color