Easiest way to add a floating table of contents to Site Page?

Question

I'm in the process of creating a "table of contents" for a SharePoint site page (using 2016 SP online) and have managed to do this by internal page links, which when clicked, navigate the user down the page to a bookmarked subheading.

However, I would like this Table of Contents to be available on the side of the page, or "float" as they scroll down, so they don't need to constantly move back to the top every time they want to navigate to a different section.

Is there an OOTB solution, or not to difficult way to implement this?

Answer 1

You mean like a table of contents from a Wiki?

I am researching something similar, maybe one of these links is useful to you:

SharePoint Wiki Table of Contents https://n8d.at/blog/revised-table-of-contents-for-wiki-pages/ https://n8d.at/blog/enhance-wiki-page-layout-by-adding-a-navgational-table-of-contents/ https://junestime.wordpress.com/2013/02/01/add-table-of-contents-to-a-wiki-page-in-sharepoint-2010/comment-page-1/

Answer 2

OOB Table of contents webpart is available. You can configure it as per your needs.

go to the “Content Rollup” category in webpart category section. Select “Table of Contents".

Answer 3

Below would work on SP13, not sure on 16...

You can insert internal links list you've built as a webpart. Use the walkthrough found on Mike Smiths blog for extracting the links out of the webpart, and writing them into another part of the page. In the example it's a marquee, but will work with on a div with position:fixed.

http://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.com/2013/05/adding-scrolling-list-of-messages-to.html

Answer 4

We use the following code to create a webpart that is the table of contents. It doesn't float, though, so you'd have to figure out the CSS to do that. All of this goes in a CEWP or an HTML Web part. It runs through the page looking for headings (you might need to adjust class names), and creates the table of contents from those.

<!-- Table of Contents --> 
<div id="wiki-index"> 
<div class="toc">Table of Contents</div> 
</div> 
<!-- Table of Contents -->


<script type="text/javascript"> 
$(document).ready(function() {
    $(".ms-bodyareacell H1.ms-rteElement-H1, H2.ms-rteElement-H2, H3.ms-rteElement-H3, H4.ms-rteElement-H4").each(function(i) {
        var current = $(this);
        current.attr("id", "title" + i);
if(this.nodeName == "H1"){
        $("#wiki-index").append(("<a id='link" + i + "' href='#title" +
            i + "' title='" + current.attr("class") + "'>" +
            current.html() + "</a><br/>"));
}
else if(this.nodeName == "H2"){
        $("#wiki-index").append(("<a style='text-indent: 30px; display: inline-block;' id='link" + i + "' href='#title" +
            i + "' title='" + current.attr("class") + "'>" +
            current.html() + "</a><br/>"));
}
else if(this.nodeName == "H3"){
        $("#wiki-index").append(("<a style='text-indent: 60px; display: inline-block;' id='link" + i + "' href='#title" +
            i + "' title='" + current.attr("class") + "'>" +
            current.html() + "</a><br/>"));
}
else if(this.nodeName == "H4"){
        $("#wiki-index").append(("<a style='text-indent: 90px; display: inline-block;' id='link" + i + "' href='#title" +
            i + "' title='" + current.attr("class") + "'>" +
            current.html() + "</a><br/>"));
}

    })
});
</script>

<style> 
#wiki-index{border: 1px black dashed; 
background-color: whitesmoke; float: left; 
padding: 10px; padding-top: 0px; } 
#wiki-index .toc{font-size: 1.1em; 
font-weight: bold; text-align: center; 
padding: 5px; }
#wiki-index a[title=ms-rteElement-H1] 
{ font-size:14px; font-weight: bold} 
#wiki-index a[title=ms-rteElement-H2] 
{ font-size:12px; font-weight: normal} 
#wiki-index a[title=ms-rteElement-H2] div 
{ margin-left: 10px;} /*Add indent in front*/
#wiki-index a[title=ms-rteElement-H3] 
{ font-size:10px;} 
#wiki-index a[title=ms-rteElement-H3] div 
{ margin-left: 15px;} /*Add indent in front*/
#wiki-index a[title=ms-rteElement-H4] 
{ font-size:8px;} 
#wiki-index a[title=ms-rteElement-H4] div 
{ margin-left: 20px;} /*Add indent in front*/
</style>

Answer 5

This solution caters fro 2016 also.

 <style>

  #toc {
    display: table;
    border: 1px solid #aaa;
    background-color: #f9f9f9;
    font-size: 95%;
    padding: 7px;
  }

  #toc #tocHeader  {
    font-weight: bold;
    text-align: center;
  }

  #toc a:before { /* content:"• "; */ }

  #toc a { line-height: 15px; margin: 10px; }

  #toc .toc_Level1 { margin-left: 5px; }

  #toc .toc_Level2 { margin-left: 15px; }

  #toc .toc_Level3 { margin-left: 25px; }

  #toc .toc_Level4 { margin-left: 35px; }

</style>

<div id="toc"></div>

<script src="https://sites.ey.com/sites/EYSE/Shared%20Documents/jquery.SPServices.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">

  function GenerateTOC() {

    $("#toc").append('<p id="tocHeader">Contents</p>');
    $(".ms-webpart-titleText h1,.ms-webpart-titleText h2,.ms-webpart-titleText h3,.ms-webpart-titleText h4,.ms-webpart-titleText > a").each(function (i) {

      var currentNode = $(this);

      currentNode.attr("id", "title" + i);

      var linkClass = (currentNode.hasClass('h1'))

        ? "toc_Level1"

        : (currentNode.hasClass('h2'))

          ? "toc_Level2"

          : (currentNode.hasClass('h3'))

            ? "toc_Level3"

            : (currentNode.hasClass('h4'))

              ? "toc_Level4"

              : "";

      $("#toc").append("<a id='link'" + i + "' class='" + linkClass + "' href='#title" + i + "' title='" + currentNode.attr("tagName") + "'>" + currentNode.html() + "</a><br>");
      currentNode.append(" <a href='#tocHeader'>[top]</a>");
    });
  }

  $(document).ready(function () {
    _spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames.push('GenerateTOC');
  });

  _spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames.push('GenerateTOC');

</script>

Answer 6

for webpart pages:

<style>
   #toc {
      display: table;
      border: 1px solid #aaa;
      background-color: #f9f9f9;
      font-size: 95%;
      padding: 7px;
   }
   #toc #tocHeader  {
      font-weight: bold;
      text-align: center;
   }
   #toc a:before { /* content:"• "; */ }
   #toc a { line-height: 15px; margin: 10px; }
   #toc .toc_Level1 { margin-left: 5px; }
   #toc .toc_Level2 { margin-left: 15px; }
   #toc .toc_Level3 { margin-left: 25px; }
   #toc .toc_Level4 { margin-left: 35px; }

</style>

<div id="toc"></div>

<script src="https://sites.ey.com/sites/EYSE/Shared%20Documents/jquery.SPServices.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
   function GenerateTOC() {
      $("#toc").append('<p id="tocHeader">Contents</p>');
      $(".ms-webpart-titleText h1,.ms-webpart-titleText h2,.ms-webpart-titleText h3,.ms-webpart-titleText h4,.ms-webpart-titleText > a").each(function(i) {
         var currentNode = $(this);
         currentNode.attr("id", "title" + i);
         var linkClass = (currentNode.hasClass('h1') )? "toc_Level1": (currentNode.hasClass('h2') )? "toc_Level2": (currentNode.hasClass('h3') )? "toc_Level3" : (currentNode.hasClass('h4'))? "toc_Level4": "";

         $("#toc").append("<a id='link'" + i + "' class='" + linkClass + "' href='#title" + i + "' title='" + currentNode.attr("tagName") + "'>" + currentNode.html() + "</a><br>");
         currentNode.append(" <a href='#tocHeader'>[top]</a>");
      });
   }
   $(document).ready(function() 
       _spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames.
       push('GenerateTOC');
   });

   _spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames.
   push('GenerateTOC');
 </script>