Active CSS animation only when you scroll on the view of the specific div

Question

I have a chart made in CSS and HTML, in this chart there is an animation for the chart loading. I want to start this animation only when I scroll on the view of the div that contain the chart.

I want to charge the chart only when I'm on it on the page, I know that I have to use javascript but I'm a very beginner in JS so I don't know if it is possible to do something like that.

This is the fiddle of the chart:

https://jsfiddle.net/matteous1/pdL0kbqk/

HTML

<ul class="chart">
  <li>
    <span style="height:5%; background: rgba(0, 102, 255, 0.80);" title="ActionScript"></span>
  </li>
  <li>
    <span style="height:70%; background: rgba(204, 51, 51, 0.80);" title="JavaScript"></span>
  </li>
  <li>
    <span style="height:50%; background: rgba(255, 186, 2, 0.80);" title="CoffeScript"></span>
  </li>
  <li>
    <span style="height:75%; background: rgba(0, 153, 102, 0.80);" title="HTML"></span>
  </li>
  <li>
    <span style="height:90%; background: rgba(0, 102, 255, 0.80);" title="HTML"></span>
  </li>
  <li>
    <span style="height:15%; background: rgba(204, 51, 51, 0.80);" title="HTML"></span>
  </li>
  <li>
    <span style="height:40%; background: rgba(255, 186, 2, 0.80);" title="HTML"></span>
  </li>
  <li>
    <span style="height:55%; background: rgba(0, 153, 102, 0.80);" title="HTML"></span>
  </li>
</ul>

CSS

.chart {
  display: table;
  table-layout: fixed;
  width: 90%;
  /*max-width: 700px;*/
  height: 65%;
  margin: 0 auto;
  background-image: linear-gradient(to top, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 2%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 2%);
  background-size: 100% 50px;
  background-position: left top;
}
.chart li {
  position: relative;
  display: table-cell;
  vertical-align: bottom;
  height: 200px;
}
.chart span {
  margin: 0 1em;
  display: block;
  /*background: rgba(209, 236, 250, 0.75);*/
  animation: draw 1s ease-in-out;
}
.chart span:before {
  position: absolute;
  left: 0;
  right: 0;
  top: 100%;
  padding: 5px 1em 0;
  display: block;
  text-align: center;
  content: attr(title);
  word-wrap: break-word;
}

@keyframes draw {
  0% {
    height: 0;
  }
}

karthick · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-20T23:27:11.577

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You can use onscroll event and check if the element is in viewport

 document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() {
    var charElem = document.querySelector('.chart');

    var isVisible = false;
    window.onscroll = function() {
      if(isElementInViewport(charElem) && !isVisible) {
        charElem.className += " anim";
        isVisible = true;
      }
    }

    function isElementInViewport (el) {

        //special bonus for those using jQuery
        if (typeof jQuery === "function" && el instanceof jQuery) {
            el = el[0];
        }

        var rect = el.getBoundingClientRect();

        return (
            rect.top >= 0 &&
            rect.left >= 0 &&
            rect.bottom <= (window.innerHeight || document.documentElement.clientHeight) && /*or $(window).height() */
            rect.right <= (window.innerWidth || document.documentElement.clientWidth) /*or $(window).width() */
        );
    }
    });

https://jsfiddle.net/karthick6891/pdL0kbqk/1/

Note: element in viewport code is reference from this link How to tell if a DOM element is visible in the current viewport?

edited Jun 20 '17 at 23:27

answered Jun 20 '17 at 23:02

karthick

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You can also use some type of in-view plugin. There are many. – sheriffderek Jun 20 '17 at 23:10
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@sheriffderek: Yes initially i thought of writing the answer using jquery and include such references. But I am not sure whether OP is using jquery. – karthick Jun 20 '17 at 23:12
This solution is perfect but I don't know why it doesn't work on my website – Crashy Jun 20 '17 at 23:21
You probably don't have the DOM loaded first (like, the page hasn't been read when the JS runs) – sheriffderek Jun 20 '17 at 23:22
if you are using jquery then include my snippet inside dom.ready, if no jquery then create document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', fn, false); call everything inside this handler – karthick Jun 20 '17 at 23:23
@Matteo: Updated my answer with dom ready listener. Hope it helps – karthick Jun 20 '17 at 23:27
I tried to put your code but nothing changed, maybe there is some conflict with the other code or I don't know. I included jquery with: and plus your code. It should work right? – Crashy Jun 21 '17 at 10:01
@Matteo: if you have jquery in your stack then replace this document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() , with $(document).ready(function() – karthick Jun 21 '17 at 18:03

Active CSS animation only when you scroll on the view of the specific div

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