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Published on Jul 13, 2018

Scroll animations in Oxygen

Sridhar Katakam

This tutorial provides the steps to implement Animate on scroll Javascript library in Oxygen for animating elements as they come into view upon scrolling.

Step 1

Install and activate my custom functionality plugin.

Create a file named say, data-attributes.js in the plugin’s assets/js directory via a FTP client having:

(function ($) {

    $('.data').each(function (index1, value1) {
        var getClasses = $(this).attr('class').split(' ');
        var currentElement = $(this);

        $(getClasses).each(function (index, value) {
            if (value.indexOf('data-') !== -1) {
                var d = value.substring(0, value.indexOf('_')); // data attribute name
                var newval = value.replace(d, ''); // set data attribute value. Includes _
                newval = newval.replace('_', '');
                newval = newval.replace('hash', '#');
                newval = newval.replace('__', '.');
                if (d.length > 1) {
                    currentElement.attr(d, newval);
                    currentElement.removeClass(value);
                    currentElement.removeClass('data');
                }
            }
        });
    });

})(jQuery);

In the next step we shall enqueue this script so that after DOM loads in the browser, classes like data-aos_fade will get parsed and get converted to data attributes, data-aos="fade".

Step 2

Upload aos.css to plugin’s assets/css directory and aos.js to assets/js.

Edit plugin.php. Inside custom_enqueue_files(), add

wp_enqueue_script(
    'data-attributes',
    plugin_dir_url( __FILE__ ) . 'assets/js/data-attributes.js',
    array( 'jquery' ),
    '1.0.0',
    true
);

wp_enqueue_style(
    'aos',
    plugin_dir_url( __FILE__ ) . 'assets/css/aos.css'
);

wp_enqueue_script(
    'aos',
    plugin_dir_url( __FILE__ ) . 'assets/js/aos.js',
    array(),
    '1.0.0',
    true
);

If you would like to restrict the scroll animations to only a specific page/view wrap the above in an if conditional.

For example, to load the assets only on the site’s front page:

if ( is_front_page() ) {
    wp_enqueue_script(
        'data-attributes',
        plugin_dir_url( __FILE__ ) . 'assets/js/data-attributes.js',
        array( 'jquery' ),
        '1.0.0',
        true
    );

    wp_enqueue_style(
        'aos',
        plugin_dir_url( __FILE__ ) . 'assets/css/aos.css'
    );

    wp_enqueue_script(
        'aos',
        plugin_dir_url( __FILE__ ) . 'assets/js/aos.js',
        array(),
        '1.0.0',
        true
    );
}

Step 3

Let’s initialize Animate on scroll.

Add a Code Block below all other elements.

PHP & HTML:

<?php
    // echo "hello world!";
?>

JavaScript:

AOS.init({
  duration: 800, // values from 0 to 3000, with step 50ms. Default: 400
  offset: 240, // offset (in px) from the original trigger point. Default: 120
  disable: 'phone', // accepts following values: 'phone', 'tablet', 'mobile', boolean, expression or function. Default: false
});

I’ve

  • increased the global duration to 800 since the default of 400 makes the animations too quick.
  • increased the global offset to 240 since the default of 120 triggers the animations earlier than I would like when scrolling down.
  • disabled the animations on phones.

If you want the animations to work on phones as well, simply delete the last line:

disable: 'phone', // accepts following values: 'phone', 'tablet', 'mobile', boolean, expression or function. Default: false

Step 4

In the Oxygen editor, select the element for which you wish to add scroll animation.

Add a class of data. This class is needed to indicate our custom JS defined earlier in data-attributes.js that this element’s classes be parsed into data attributes.

Add a class of data-aos_fade-left.

Replace fade-left with the name of your desired animation from this list.

Code in data-attributes.js will add data-aos="fade-left" data attribute in the front end and delete this class.

Repeat this for other elements you wish to add scroll animations to.

For staggered/sequential animations like the three columns in the Testimonials section on the demo page, we need to add data-aos-duration data attribute with increasing values.

For this, I’ve added data-aos-duration_1300 class for the second column and data-aos-duration_1800 for the second column. i.e., there is a gap of 500ms between each. Remember that we have set the global duration to 800 in Step 3.

Reference: https://wpdevdesign.com/how-to-add-data-attributes-to-elements-in-oxygen/

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