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Stop floating animation of sidebar

microugly says:
This suggestion has been posted before (over a year ago now - http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/ideas/437/) but I wanted to bring it up again.

The fancy animation of the sidebar looks neat, but after a while it becomes an annoyance since you have to wait until it settles in it's place before you can use it.

I would prefer if the postion of the sidebar was 'fixed' in the CSS sense.

If for some reason the developers would rather not change it, any chance you can point me towards the code that controls the effect? Using Opera I can load my own JS and CSS to override it.
Posted at 11:21pm on March 4, 2007
rmchale says:
If you come up with a solution I'd be interested
Posted 17 years ago
yellowbook says:
Change the CSS from...

#detailsbox { position: relative; float: right; width: 245px; }

to...

#detailsbox { position: static; float: right; width: 245px; }

.... tested in Firefox 2.
Posted 17 years ago
(closed account) says:
Now a Greasemonkey script. :)

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/7825
Posted 17 years ago
microugly says:
Thank yellowbook. Having it positioned relative isn't really a problem for me. That's actually what I want. It's just the animated scrolling delay.

But your reply prompted me to look again and I can see the code JS code that causes it to animate. I can definitely override this behaviour in Opera, but I can't get it to work yet. You can read details about it here - http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=180440

If I find how to make it work I'll post it here.
Posted 17 years ago
microugly says:
Hey wcitypoe - I think that script does exactly what yellowbook has suggested. It just changes the CSS style for the #detailsbox.
Posted 17 years ago
(closed account) says:
Yeah, Microugly, it does -- I took the code he offered and made it a Greasemonkey script, that's all. It even credits him in the code.
Posted 17 years ago
microugly says:
Oh, ok :)

If you know how to override the floatDiv() and moveDiv() functions with such a script it would allow the static position of DIV without the animation.

This is what I'm trying to do - but I use Opera.
Posted 17 years ago
microugly says:
If anyone is interested - a kind Opera user has posted a JS code that dramatically speeds up the animation in the Opera thread linked above.

I would prefer if it wasn't animated at all, but this JS code makes it the animation far less annoying.
Posted 17 years ago
(closed account) says:
Microugly, posts don't take HTML, so the URL you linked to never showed up.
Posted 17 years ago
c0debabe says:
Thanks for the grease monkey thing, wcitypoe. :-D
Posted 17 years ago
microugly says:
wcitypoe - yeah the link is up there (you just can't click it). Here it is again - http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=180440
Posted 17 years ago
rmchale says:
Is there a way via greasemonkey to make it scroll faster?
Posted 17 years ago
(closed account) says:
+1 for 'fixed' sidebar
Posted 16 years ago
(closed account) says:
Mr. Devore has graciously fixed the userscript in question, and it seems functional once more on my end.
Posted 16 years ago
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