How to apply an offset to a #link on another page

I got a website which basically is 80% index.html plus a few minor subpages.
Index.html is divided into few sections.
However, the navigation has position:fixed and height of - say - 100px, so links like

<a href="#section">


need a 100px offset.
I achieve it through jQuery (ill leave all ifs for specific sections out):

$("#navigation a").click(function()
event.preventDefault();
var offset = $("#section1").offset().top - 100;
$(window).scrollTop(offset);



The problem is that when i navigate to index.html from subpages, this trick won't work, so i must not use this function on subpages and simply "allow default".

Is there a way to navigate to a #section of an other html document with a proper offset (cant be hard coded)?

1 Answer
1

You can achieve this without Javascript.

Assumed on the index.html all targets having the class section. With this CSS snippet the fixed navigation does not hide any target.

body
padding-top: 60px;
margin-top: 0px;


#fixed-nav
position:fixed;
height:50px;
line-height:50px;
vertical-align:middle;
background:#000;
top:0;
left:0;
right:0;
color:#FFF;
padding-left:5px;


#fixed-nav a
color: white;
margin-right: 10px;
text-decoration: none;


#sections .section
height:400px;
padding-left:5px;


#sections .section:before {
display: block;
content: " ";
margin-top: -60px;
height: 60px;
visibility: hidden;

<div id="fixed-nav">
<a href="#target-1">To target 1</a>
<a href="#target-2">To target 2</a>
<a href="#target-3">To target 3</a>
<a href="#target-4">To target 4</a>
<a href="#target-5">To target 5</a>
</div>

<div id="sections">
<div class="section" id="target-1">
Target 1
</div>
<div class="section" id="target-2">
Target 2
</div>
<div class="section" id="target-3">
Target 3
</div>
<div class="section" id="target-4">
Target 4
</div>
<div class="section" id="target-5">
Target 5
</div>
</div>

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