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Check element visibility with Javascript

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The following function checks if a given element is within browser’s viewport:

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function isScrolledIntoView(elem)
{
    var docViewTop = $(window).scrollTop();
    var docViewBottom = docViewTop + $(window).height();

    var elemTop = $(elem).offset().top;
    var elemBottom = elemTop + $(elem).height();

    return ((elemBottom >= docViewTop) && (elemTop <= docViewBottom));
}

Sample Usage

On this example I’ll be loading iframes only when they are on the browsers viewport. For this to work I initially printed all iframe’s without the SRC attribute. Instead, I used the REL attribute as a placeholder for the iframe destination:

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    var my_interval = setInterval(checkIframesVisibility, 1000);

    function checkIframesVisibility()
    {
        $("iframe").each(function(i) {
            if (isScrolledIntoView($(this)))
            {
                if ($(this).attr('src') == "")
                {
                    $(this).attr('src', $(this).attr('rel'));
                    $(this).iframeAutoHeight({debug: false, diagnostics: false});
                }
            }
        });
    }

    function isScrolledIntoView(elem)
    {
        var docViewTop = $(window).scrollTop();
        var docViewBottom = docViewTop + $(window).height();

        var elemTop = $(elem).offset().top;
        var elemBottom = elemTop + $(elem).height();

        return ((elemBottom <= docViewTop) && (elemTop <= docViewBottom));
    }

PS: The iframeAutoHeight is a plugin that auto resizes the iframe to the content’s height.

Hope you find this is useful!


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