Kevin Powell - Community•11mo ago

IntersectionObserver Question

Hello, I'm trying to use IntersectionObserver for two different instances. First, to detect when a section is within view, then count from 0 to 500. Then, to detect if any img is in view, and to animate them appearing. Current Snippet:

const counter = document.querySelector('.value');

const imgs = document.querySelectorAll('img'); // Get images

const observer = new IntersectionObserver(entries => {
    entries.forEach(entry => {
        if(entry.isIntersecting) {
            countReviews()
            console.log(entry)
        };
    });
});

observer.observe(counter);

observer.observe(imgs); // Call Observer for images

const counter = document.querySelector('.value');

const imgs = document.querySelectorAll('img'); // Get images

const observer = new IntersectionObserver(entries => {
    entries.forEach(entry => {
        if(entry.isIntersecting) {
            countReviews()
            console.log(entry)
        };
    });
});

observer.observe(counter);

observer.observe(imgs); // Call Observer for images

This code works for counting, but I'm unsure how to incorporate a second observer. Do I need to check when theres an observation and determine if it's the counter or image by the observation target, then call each function accordingly? (didn't include the lazy load function) Any help is appreciated, thanks

9 Replies

glutonium•11mo ago

well suppose your img appearance animation would be the opacity going from 0 to 1 now u can ofc initially set the opacity to 0 then make a separate class with higher specificity than the one where u set opacity is 0, and for that class u set the opacity to 1 now i guess in the callback u can basically check if imgs includes entry.target (imgs.includes(entry.target) // returns bool) , and then if its true then u can set that class with opacity of 1 to that entry.target

Matt•11mo ago

How would I observe multiple elements with the observer? Like this?

imgs.forEach(img => {
    observer.observe(img);
})

observer.observe(counter);

imgs.forEach(img => {
    observer.observe(img);
})

observer.observe(counter);

imgs.includes(entry.target) also returns .includes() is not a function

clevermissfox•11mo ago

Maybe this will help I just watched this am https://youtu.be/9W7rKLahq2Q?si=o41MxEx3NOcLuGaO

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glutonium•11mo ago

u have to convert it into an array first what u have is a nodelist u have to do let imgArr = Array.from(imgs) and then do imgArr.includes()

Matt•11mo ago

Ah okay, I noticed it was a nodelist in the console when I logged How would I run multiple observers?

glutonium•11mo ago

with forEach ig

Matt•11mo ago

I'm doing something like this and it doesn't seem to work properly

const counter = document.querySelector('.value');
const imgs = document.querySelectorAll('img');
let imgArr = Array.from(imgs)

const observer = new IntersectionObserver(entries => {
    entries.forEach(entry => {

        if(imgArr.includes(entry.target)) {

            setTimeout(entry.target.classList.add("fade-in"), 3000);

        } else if (entry.target == counter) {
            countReviews()
        }
    });
});

imgs.forEach(img => {
    observer.observe(img);

})

observer.observe(counter);

const counter = document.querySelector('.value');
const imgs = document.querySelectorAll('img');
let imgArr = Array.from(imgs)

const observer = new IntersectionObserver(entries => {
    entries.forEach(entry => {

        if(imgArr.includes(entry.target)) {

            setTimeout(entry.target.classList.add("fade-in"), 3000);

        } else if (entry.target == counter) {
            countReviews()
        }
    });
});

imgs.forEach(img => {
    observer.observe(img);

})

observer.observe(counter);

When I run this code, it detects the counter even though it's not within range of the observer

Matt•11mo ago

https://gyazo.com/902d9430b0e3740103b972b1a1f7f1bf

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Matt•11mo ago

The counter is the red section and the image detection seems to be adding the class to every image despite not being within range

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