The Stickybar or fixed Bar that we released was warmly welcomed. What we all have been searching for was a Close Button or Cancel button that would hide the bar display. May be not every visitor enjoys viewing that fixed bar at the top, so they deserve to be provided with an option to view or hide the bar. While viewing one of the Wordpress Blogs I found this button next to their updates bar. I managed somehow to fetch the script half broken. Making it work with blogger template was difficult because blogspot templates are programmed via XML and the rules of XML are really harsh when it comes to Character case. Debugging the script was difficult but Alhamdulillah the hard work paid off. You can see it Live just to the right of my Stickybar at the top. I am excited to share it with you all. Lets get to work!
Create a Sticky Bar With Close Button in Blogger
The steps are really simply as we already discussed in our previous tutorials. I will be not be discussing on how to change the font colors and background color of the bar because you can find all such details on my previous tutorials. Kindly have a look at them later in order to change the CSS style properties:
Follow these easy steps:
- Go To Blogger > Design > Edit HTML
- Backup your template
- Search for this
]]></b:skin>
4. Just above it paste the following CSS code,
#mbt_bar{
background:#333 url('http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zQeUG7PU9Uw/TmkiptyZ1eI/AAAAAAAAE98/At4tRBC9HQc/s400/stickybar.png') repeat-x;
width:100%;
margin:0 auto;
text-align:center;
padding:0px 0;
border-bottom: 1px solid #888888;
-moz-box-shadow: #666666 0px 1px 3px;
-webkit-box-shadow: #666666 0px 1px 3px;
box-shadow: #666666 0px 1px 3px;
z-index: 999;
height: 28px; position:fixed;
line-height: 1.85em;
vertical-align: baseline;
letter-spacing: 1px;
color:#fff;
font-size:13px;
font-weight:bold;
font-family: arial,"Helvetica",sans-serif;
}
#mbt_bar a{
text-decoration:underline;
color:#E2E504;
}
#mbt_bar a:hover{
text-decoration:none;
}
#mbt_bar p {margin:0; list-style:none;}
#mbt_bar img {vertical-align: middle;
margin-right: 6px;}
5. Next search for </head> and paste the following Javascript code just above it
<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[
var mbt_arr = new Array();
var mbt_clear = new Array();
function mbtFloat(mbt) {
mbt_arr[mbt_arr.length] = this;
var mbtpointer = eval(mbt_arr.length-1);
this.pagetop = 0;
this.cmode = (document.compatMode && document.compatMode!="BackCompat") ? document.documentElement : document.body;
this.mbtsrc = document.all? document.all[mbt] : document.getElementById(mbt);
this.mbtsrc.height = this.mbtsrc.offsetHeight;
this.mbtheight = this.cmode.clientHeight;
this.mbtoffset = mbtGetOffsetY(mbt_arr[mbtpointer]);
var mbtbar = 'mbt_clear['+mbtpointer+'] = setInterval("mbtFloatInit(mbt_arr['+mbtpointer+'])",1);';
mbtbar = mbtbar;
eval(mbtbar);
}
function mbtGetOffsetY(mbt) {
var mtaTotOffset = parseInt(mbt.mbtsrc.offsetTop);
var parentOffset = mbt.mbtsrc.offsetParent;
while ( parentOffset != null ) {
mbtTotOffset += parentOffset.offsetTop;
parentOffset = parentOffset.offsetParent;
}
return mbtTotOffset;
}
function mbtFloatInit(mbt) {
mbt.pagetop = mbt.cmode.scrollTop;
mbt.mbtsrc.style.top = mbt.pagetop - mbt.mbtoffset + "px";
}
function closeTopAds() {
document.getElementById("mbt_bar").style.visibility = "hidden";
}
//]]>
</script>
6. Finally search for <body> and just below it paste the following HTML code
<div id='mbt_bar'> WRITE YOUR TEXT HERE
<span style='padding:0px; float:right'>
<img align='absmiddle' border='0' onClick='closeTopAds();return false;' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MSEzL6EtjrM/Tt-hrSkKVnI/AAAAAAAAFiQ/AGUGFpnSUHk/s400/cancel.png' style='cursor:hand;cursor:pointer;'/></span></div>
<br/><br/>
To write an announcement, update news or notice to readers, just replace the yellow highlighted text with your message. If you wish to change the Close button image then simply replace the bolded black link with your button's link.
7. Save your template
8. You are all done!
Visit your blog to see it fixed to the top just beautifully with a close button waiting to be clicked!
How it works?
The close button when clicked triggers the function closeTopAds(); which then searches for function definition. The function is defined such that it sets visibility of bar to hidden. That's how the bar hides once the button is clicked and reappears only upon page refresh. Indeed a pretty neat way to make a user friendly bar.
Need help?
You are most welcomed to ask for any help if needed. If you wish to share the tutorial and scripts above with your readers then kindly attach attribution to MBT blog. Peace and blessings pal! :)
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25 comments:
Great tutorial but you should fix this "when you scroll down images appears above sticky bar as should be below.
wow thats become more efficient , we may call it beta version??
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@ndark
Could you kindly explain it buddy or add a screenshot. Are you adding an image to sticky bar?
@Faiz
lol sure its a beta version because we are soon going to add more stuff to the bar like search box, social plugins etc. :d
No i am not changing anything in this codes. check this image
Great Tutorial....
Very helpful
This is exactly what I was searching for, waiting for the social buttons to be added. I created a bar with buttons which is a bit incomplete, but I'm lazy now. Thanks ;)
Nice! I changed the other sticky bar for this one.
But I need help, were do I have to go to change the space between the bar and the beginning of the main structure?
see my blog to understand: www.Ganha-Facil.com
Thanks again for this great tutorial
bhai can u tell how to add this at the bottom of page ?
@ndark
Oh you mean that. It is because we have not added a z-index property to it. But it wont bother the design a lot bud.
@Sagar
I will be working on it pal. thanks for the idea. :>
@David
Delete this line from this code:
<br/><br/>
@Haider
I have shared the link above dude: http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/09/notification-bar-for-blogspot-with.html
this sticky bar is hiding my upper labels how to bring upper labels down
plz check it at
www.x9wallpapers.com
@Mohammad Mustafa Ahmedzai Buddy I made a custom sticky bar with social buttons, now how do I add the close button to it ? You can have a look at my blog : http://www.technetsavvy.com
Hey the thing is that i applied the bar on my website http://hackinguniversity.in/ but after adding its not scrolling with my page. Please can you help me out i making it scroll or can you tell me which part i have missed.
@Rishabh Jain Add "position:fixed" to the "#mbt-stickybar" CSS rule.
Cool bro. thank you :)
http://softtechz.com
close button is not working
pls send me full brief on my email my email is
kishang1989@gmail.com
great post.. i had been searching this at Google and finally i got it here (The Only Blog i Follow)
thks for sharing.............
thkx for sharing this.. i have created one and added twitter & facebook to it with little bit of creativity.. have a look..
again thanking for sharing this...
http://mlmtrainingindia.blogspot.com/
nice tutorial..good job bro
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Hi Mohammad, I love your tutorial and I would like to replace img cancel.png with the word close. Can you be of any assistence. Thanks very much
Really great tutorial thank you so much!!
by the way how can we delay the sticky bare to load after 5 or 7 seconds ??
because adding too much CSS and Java scripts make the blog very slow, it will be a great idea if you make tutorial about delaying the script to load after X seconds !!
I surmise I have chosen an intelligent and mind blowing website with interesting material.
Web Development
i tried this code according to the above steps on my Educational and Earning Blog but the following errors appears
Error parsing XML, line 742, column 3: The element type "head" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "".
please help how to remove this erro
how to add sidebar within blog posts as you have in this blog..
i.e.. sidebar in right of posts attached as yours!
Thanks,
http://bhejamatpaka.blogspot.in
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