New effect - "scrollview" - scroll a dom element smoothly into view

[biGGs]

Some weeks ago, I switched over using the ui framework. So I rewrote some of my plugins to use the effects/widget mechanism. With this attached effect, I want to begin sharing some of my work.

Tested on IE6/7,FF,Safari,Opera,Chrome.

The effect is quite easy, but by the time of writing it, I have not seen it yet on jQuery. Instead of the ScrollTo plugin, which scrolls to the top left corner of an element, this plugin scrolls only as much as neccessary, so the element is in view.

Just give it a try. Take an element, which is not fully in the viewport, and call it like any other effect:

$(element).effect('scrollview', {}, 500);

Perhaps you want to add it to the effects library.

[Corey Frang]

There are a few solid plugins that handle scrollTo type functionality already - also - this doesn't really have the "effects" scheme - there isn't a show/hide mode for "scrollTo"