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The Content component provides an easy to use content area with some useful methods to control the scrollable area. There should only be one content in a single view component. If additional scrollable elements are need, use ionScroll.

The content area can also implement pull-to-refresh with the Refresher component.

Usage

<ion-content>
  Add your content here!
</ion-content>

To get a reference to the content component from a Page's logic, you can use Angular's @ViewChild annotation:

import { Component, ViewChild } from '@angular/core';
import { Content } from 'ionic-angular';

@Component({...})
export class MyPage{
  @ViewChild(Content) content: Content;

  scrollToTop() {
    this.content.scrollToTop();
  }
}

Instance Members

addImg()

contentBottom

A number representing how many pixels the bottom of the content has been adjusted, which could be by either padding or margin. This adjustment is to account for the space needed for the footer.

Returns: number

contentHeight

Content height of the viewable area. This does not include content which is outside the overflow area, or content area which is under headers and footers. Read-only.

Returns: number

contentTop

A number representing how many pixels the top of the content has been adjusted, which could be by either padding or margin. This adjustment is to account for the space needed for the header.

Returns: number

contentWidth

Content width including content which is not visible on the screen due to overflow. Read-only.

Returns: number

directionX

The current, or last known, horizontal scroll direction. Possible string values include right and left.

Returns: string

directionY

The current, or last known, vertical scroll direction. Possible string values include down and up.

Returns: string

getContentDimensions()

Returns the content and scroll elements’ dimensions.

Returns: object

dimensions The content and scroll elements' dimensions

Property Type Details
dimensions.contentHeight number

content offsetHeight

dimensions.contentTop number

content offsetTop

dimensions.contentBottom number

content offsetTop+offsetHeight

dimensions.contentWidth number

content offsetWidth

dimensions.contentLeft number

content offsetLeft

dimensions.contentRight number

content offsetLeft + offsetWidth

dimensions.scrollHeight number

scroll scrollHeight

dimensions.scrollTop number

scroll scrollTop

dimensions.scrollBottom number

scroll scrollTop + scrollHeight

dimensions.scrollWidth number

scroll scrollWidth

dimensions.scrollLeft number

scroll scrollLeft

dimensions.scrollRight number

scroll scrollLeft + scrollWidth

getFixedElement()

isScrolling

If the content is actively scrolling or not.

Returns: boolean

resize()

Tell the content to recalculate its dimensions. This should be called after dynamically adding/removing headers, footers, or tabs.

scrollHeight

Content height including content which is not visible on the screen due to overflow. Read-only.

Returns: number

scrollLeft

The distance of the content’s left to its leftmost visible content.

Returns: number

scrollTo(x, y, duration)

Scroll to the specified position.

Param Type Details
x number

The x-value to scroll to.

y number

The y-value to scroll to.

duration number

Duration of the scroll animation in milliseconds. Defaults to 300.Optional

Returns: Promise

Returns a promise which is resolved when the scroll has completed.

scrollToBottom(duration)

Scroll to the bottom of the content component.

Param Type Details
duration number

Duration of the scroll animation in milliseconds. Defaults to 300.Optional

Returns: Promise

Returns a promise which is resolved when the scroll has completed.

scrollToTop(duration)

Scroll to the top of the content component.

Param Type Details
duration number

Duration of the scroll animation in milliseconds. Defaults to 300.Optional

Returns: Promise

Returns a promise which is resolved when the scroll has completed.

scrollTop

The distance of the content’s top to its topmost visible content.

Returns: number

scrollWidth

Content width including content which is not visible due to overflow. Read-only.

Returns: number

Input Properties

Attr Type Details
fullscreen boolean

If true, the content will scroll behind the headers and footers. This effect can easily be seen by setting the toolbar to transparent.

scrollDownOnLoad boolean

If true, the content will scroll down on load.

Output Events

Attr Details
ionScroll

Emitted on every scroll event.

ionScrollEnd

Emitted when scrolling ends.

ionScrollStart

Emitted when the scrolling first starts.

Advanced

Scroll Events

Scroll events happen outside of Angular's Zones. This is for performance reasons. So if you're trying to bind a value to any scroll event, it will need to be wrapped in a zone.run()

import { Component, NgZone } from '@angular/core';
@Component({
  template: `
    <ion-header>
      <ion-navbar>
        <ion-title></ion-title>
      </ion-navbar>
    </ion-header>
    <ion-content (ionScroll)="scrollHandler($event)">
       <p> Some realllllllly long content </p>
    </ion-content>
`})
class E2EPage {
 public scrollAmount = 0;
 constructor( public zone: NgZone){}
 scrollHandler(event) {
   console.log(`ScrollEvent: ${event}`)
   this.zone.run(()=>{
     // since scrollAmount is data-binded,
     // the update needs to happen in zone
     this.scrollAmount++
   })
 }
}

This goes for any scroll event, not just ionScroll.

Resizing the content

If the height of ion-header, ion-footer or ion-tabbar changes dynamically, content.resize() has to be called in order to update the layout of Content.

@Component({
  template: `
    <ion-header>
      <ion-navbar>
        <ion-title>Main Navbar</ion-title>
      </ion-navbar>
      <ion-toolbar *ngIf="showToolbar">
        <ion-title>Dynamic Toolbar</ion-title>
      </ion-toolbar>
    </ion-header>
    <ion-content>
      <button ion-button (click)="toggleToolbar()">Toggle Toolbar</button>
    </ion-content>
`})

class E2EPage {
  @ViewChild(Content) content: Content;
  showToolbar: boolean = false;

  toggleToolbar() {
    this.showToolbar = !this.showToolbar;
    this.content.resize();
  }
}

Scroll to a specific position

import { Component, ViewChild } from '@angular/core';
import { Content } from 'ionic-angular';

@Component({
  template: `<ion-content>
               <button ion-button (click)="scrollTo()">Down 500px</button>
             </ion-content>`
)}
export class MyPage{
  @ViewChild(Content) content: Content;

  scrollTo() {
    // set the scrollLeft to 0px, and scrollTop to 500px
    // the scroll duration should take 200ms
    this.content.scrollTo(0, 500, 200);
  }
}

Sass Variables

iOS

Property Default Description
$content-ios-outer-background #efeff4

Background color of the outer content

$content-ios-transition-background #000

Background color of the content when making transition

API

Native

General