I´m using anchors to jump to different parts on a page (#nameofid) and it works as expected on desktop but on mobile the link gets clicked as soon as the finger touches it.

Normal links/buttons etc are working fine, but it appears as the smooth scrolling is waiting for a mousedown event which causes troubles when swiping on a mobile device.

I can see it´s the same behaviour as the back to top arrow so I wanted to see if anyone knew what file I needed to modify so that the smooth scrolling is only done when the finger gets released?

Thanks

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Cheers!

We would not recommend editing any js file as these will just be overwritten when there is an update of X. Please use this code instead in your customizer, Appearance > Customize > Custom > Javascript

jQuery(document).ready(function($) {

  //
  // Scroll trigger.
  //

  $('a[href*="#"]').on('touchstart', function(e) {
    return false;
  });

  $('a[href*="#"]').on('touchend click', function(e) {
    $href            = $(this).attr('href');
    notComments      = $href.indexOf('#comments') === -1;
    notAccordion     = $href.indexOf('#collapse-') === -1;
    notTabbedContent = $href.indexOf('#tab-') === -1;
    if ( $href !== '#' && notComments && notAccordion && notTabbedContent ) {
      var theId = $href.split('#').pop();
      var $el   = $('#' + theId);
      if ( $el.length > 0 ) {
        e.preventDefault();
        animateOffset($el, 850, 'easeInOutExpo');
      }
    }
  });

});

Please let us know if this works out for you.

I get this error now “Uncaught ReferenceError: animateOffset is not defined”, and the same scrolling behavior is occurring.

Just for fun I tried changing line 200 in /themes/x/framework/js/src/site/inc/x-body-scrollspy.js

from
$(‘a[href*=”#”]’).on(‘touchstart click’, function(e) {

to
$(‘a[href*=”#”]’).on(‘touchend click’, function(e) {

But that did not change it

Please change the javascript code above to this.

jQuery(document).ready(function($) {

  function animateOffset( element, ms, easing ) {
    $('html, body').animate({
      scrollTop: $(element).offset().top - adminbarHeight - navbarFixedTopHeight + 1
    }, ms, easing);
  }

  $('a[href*="#"]').on('touchstart', function(e) {
    return false;
  });

  $('a[href*="#"]').on('touchend click', function(e) {
    $href            = $(this).attr('href');
    notComments      = $href.indexOf('#comments') === -1;
    notAccordion     = $href.indexOf('#collapse-') === -1;
    notTabbedContent = $href.indexOf('#tab-') === -1;
    if ( $href !== '#' && notComments && notAccordion && notTabbedContent ) {
      var theId = $href.split('#').pop();
      var $el   = $('#' + theId);
      if ( $el.length > 0 ) {
        e.preventDefault();
        animateOffset($el, 850, 'easeInOutExpo');
      }
    }
  });

});

If that doesn’t help, please provide us you wordpress admin login so we could take a closer look.

Thanks

I checked your website but I couldn’t find the JS code in your Customizer. However, you can replace the previous provided JS code with this and it should resolve the issue:

jQuery(document).ready(function($) {

  var adminbarHeight       = $('#wpadminbar').outerHeight();
  var navbarFixedTopHeight = $('.x-navbar-fixed-top-active .x-navbar').outerHeight();
  
  function animateOffset( element, ms, easing ) {
    $('html, body').animate({
      scrollTop: $(element).offset().top - adminbarHeight - navbarFixedTopHeight + 1
    }, ms, easing);
  }

  //
  // Scroll trigger.
  //

  $('a[href*="#"]').off('touchstart');
  $('a[href*="#"]').on('touchend click', function(e) {
    $href            = $(this).attr('href');
    notComments      = $href.indexOf('#comments') === -1;
    notAccordion     = $href.indexOf('#collapse-') === -1;
    notTabbedContent = $href.indexOf('#tab-') === -1;
    if ( $href !== '#' && notComments && notAccordion && notTabbedContent ) {
      var theId = $href.split('#').pop();
      var $el   = $('#' + theId);
      if ( $el.length > 0 ) {
        e.preventDefault();
        animateOffset($el, 850, 'easeInOutExpo');
      }
    }
  });

});

Hope this helps. 🙂

Thank you.

Did a small modification and replaced touchend with onclick :

jQuery(document).ready(function($) {

  var adminbarHeight       = $('#wpadminbar').outerHeight();
  var navbarFixedTopHeight = $('.x-navbar-fixed-top-active .x-navbar').outerHeight();
  
  function animateOffset( element, ms, easing ) {
    $('html, body').animate({
      scrollTop: $(element).offset().top - adminbarHeight - navbarFixedTopHeight + 1
    }, ms, easing);
  }

  //
  // Scroll trigger.
  //

  $('a[href*="#"]').off('touchstart');
  $('a[href*="#"]').on('onclick', function(e) {
    $href            = $(this).attr('href');
    notComments      = $href.indexOf('#comments') === -1;
    notAccordion     = $href.indexOf('#collapse-') === -1;
    notTabbedContent = $href.indexOf('#tab-') === -1;
    if ( $href !== '#' && notComments && notAccordion && notTabbedContent ) {
      var theId = $href.split('#').pop();
      var $el   = $('#' + theId);
      if ( $el.length > 0 ) {
        e.preventDefault();
        animateOffset($el, 850, 'easeInOutExpo');
      }
    }
  });

});

Now it’s working like I wanted