Div anchors scrolling too far

Question

I\'m using a static bar at the top of my site, about 20px high. When I click an anchor link(for those who don\'t know, the navigation on wikipedia works like that. Click a t

Answer 1

To fix this with CSS you can add a padding to the Elements you want to jump to:

Example

Alternatively, you could add a border:

div{ 
  height: 650px; 
  background:#ccc; 
  /*the magic happens here*/
  border-top:42px solid #fff;
}
ul{
  top: 0; 
  width: 100%; 
  height:20px; 
  position: fixed; 
  background: deeppink; 
  margin:0;
  padding:10px; 
}
li{
  float:left;
  list-style:none;
  padding-left:10px;
}
div:first-of-type{ 
  margin-top:0; 
}

  
link 1
  
link 2
  
link 3
  
link 4

1
2
3
4

However, this is not always applicable.

For a javascript solution you could use a click event attached to the anchor elements that scrolls an adjusted amount of pixels like following:

document.querySelector("a").addEventListener("click",function(e){
    // dynamically determining the height of your navbar
    let navbar = document.querySelector("nav");
    let navbarheight = parseInt(window.getComputedStyle(navbar).height,10);
    // show 5 pixels of previous section just for illustration purposes 
    let scrollHeight = document.querySelector(e.target.hash).offsetTop - navbarheight - 5;
    /* scrolling to the element taking the height of the static bar into account*/
    window.scroll(0,scrollHeight);
    /*properly updating the window location*/
    window.location.hash = e.target.hash;
    /* do not execute default action*/
    e.preventDefault();
});

nav{
  position:fixed;
  top:0;
  left:0;
  right:0;
  height:40px;
  text-align:center;
  background:#bada55;
  margin:0;
}
a{
  display:block;
  padding-top:40px;
}
#section1{
  height:800px;
  background:repeating-linear-gradient(45deg,#606dbc55,#606dbc55 10px,#46529855 10px,#46529855 20px);
}
#section2{
  height:800px;
  background:repeating-linear-gradient(-45deg,#22222255,#22222255 10px,#66666655 10px,#66666655 20px);
}

static header
jump to section 2 
Section 1
Section 2