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Change CSS class when element scrolls into viewport

I had a neat visual gimmick on the start page of this blog, that the gray-scaled header image of a post in the list scaled up to 100% and became colored, when the user hovered over it:

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.article-inner .article-photo {
height: 150px;
width: 100%;
object-fit: cover;
transform: scale(1);
transform-style: preserve-3d;
transition: all ease-out 0.6s;
opacity: 0.3;
filter: grayscale(1) contrast(0.5);
}
.article-inner:hover .article-photo {
transform: scale(1.1);
opacity: 1;
filter: grayscale(0) contrast(1);
}

Nice, but a little bit useless on smartphones or tablets, where HOVER doesn’t really work.

A better idea was to transform the header image automatically, when it becomes visible to the user. So I changed the HOVER selector into a class…

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.article-photo.in-view {
transform: scale(1.1);
opacity: 1;
filter: grayscale(0) contrast(1);
}

… and wrote a little JS function to determine the point, where the images is fully visible in the viewport:

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function isVisibleInViewPort(e) {
var viewTop = $(window).scrollTop();
var viewBottom = viewTop + $(window).height();
var eTop = $(e).offset().top;
var eBottom = eTop + $(e).height();
return ((eBottom <= viewBottom) && (eTop >= viewTop));
}

This function I had to bind to the windows scroll event to all header images only:

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$(window).on('scroll', function() {
$(".article-photo").each(function() {
if (isVisibleInViewPort($(this))) {
$(this).addClass("in-view");
} else {
$(this).removeClass("in-view");
}
});
});

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