User:BrandonXLF/FloatSide

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• JS
• CSS

Float Side

Description	Makes side menu float Float Side makes the side menu float. You can stroll through the side menu still using the scroll bar.
Author(s)	User:BrandonXLF
Status	Working
First released	January 9, 2018
Skins	All
Source	FloatSide.js (git) FloatSide.css (git)
GitHub repository	wikipedia-user-scripts

A video showing the floating side panel in use

Float Side makes the side menu float. You can stroll through the side menu still using the scroll bar.

Installation

You can install this script using JavaScript (JS) or Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). CSS will allow the script to run right at load whereas JS may have a delay before applying, this means the scripts style won't work instantly using JS but will using CSS.

Using JS

• Add the following to your common.js or your skin.js:

importStylesheet('User:BrandonXLF/FloatSide.css'); // [[User:BrandonXLF/FloatSide.css]]

• Alternatively, use the following instead of the above:

mw.loader.load('/w/index.php?title=User:BrandonXLF/FloatSide.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css', 'text/css'); // [[User:BrandonXLF/FloatSide.css]]

• To install on other wikis (for instance, globally in your global.js on the Meta-Wiki), use the following code:

mw.loader.load('https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:BrandonXLF/FloatSide.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css', 'text/css');

• After installing reload the page and clear your cach

Using CSS

• Add the following to your common.css or your skin.css AT THE TOP (but after @charset):

@import url(https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:BrandonXLF/FloatSide.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css); /* [[User:BrandonXLF/FloatSide.css]] */

• After installing reload the page and clear your cace

Comments/Bugs

Comments are welcome on my talk page, be sure to indicate that you're talking about this script in the title. I would really like any suggestion to make the script run better.