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      <li><a href='#section1'>S<span>ection</span> 1</a></li>
      <li><a href='#section2'>S<span>ection</span> 2</a></li>
      <li><a href='#section3'>S<span>ection</span> 3</a></li>
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      <li><a href='#section7'>S<span>ection</span> 7</a></li>
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    <h1>Automatic Scroll Menu Highlight</h1>
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      <p>Scroll the page up and down and the top menu will automatically highlight the current section. No JS was harmed in producing this function.</p>
      <p>This demo is proof of concept only and requires on a few 'magic numbers' so is of limited use other than an exercise in what can be done with CSS alone.</p>
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html {
  box-sizing: border-box;
}
*,
*:before,
*:after {
  box-sizing: inherit;
}
html {
  overflow: hidden;
}
body {
  scroll-behavior: smooth;
  overflow-y: scroll;
  -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; /* Lets it scroll lazy */
  height: 100vh;
}
html,
body {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}
h1 {
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 1rem 0;
  background: palegoldenrod;
}
ul {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  list-style: none;
}
.wrap {
  position: relative;
  background: #f9f9f9;
  max-width: 1480px;
  margin: auto;
}
.main {
  background: #8000006e;
}
.main p {
  padding: 0 10px;
  margin: 0.5rem 0 1rem;
}
.main .item1 {
}
.nav {
  position: -webkit-sticky;
  position: sticky;
  top: 0;
  z-index: 9;
  box-shadow: 0 0 10px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);
  background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
  background: #fff;
  font-weight: bold;
  font-size: 1.2rem;
}
.nav ul {
  display: flex;
}
.nav li {
  flex: 1 0 0;
}
.nav a {
  padding: 0 10px;
  text-decoration: none;
  border: 1px solid #000;
  display: flex;
  height: 2rem; /* magic number alert*/
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: center;
  color: #000;
  white-space: nowrap;
}
.nav a:hover {
  background: rgba(240, 15, 0, 0.5);
}
.wrap section h2 {
  margin: -2rem 0 0;
  position: -webkit-sticky;
  position: sticky;
  top: 2rem;
  background: red;
  color: #fff;
  padding: 5px 10px;
  box-shadow: 0 0 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);
}
.wrap section:before {
  content: "\2192";
  display: block;
  position: -webkit-sticky;
  position: sticky;
  top: 1px;
  height: 2rem; /* magic number alert*/
  line-height: 2rem;
  background: linear-gradient(to left, red, red);
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  background-attachment: fixed;
  background-size: 100% 2rem;
  margin: 0;
  color: transparent;
  z-index: 999;
  opacity: 0.5;
  width: calc(100% / 8);
}

/* Safari 9+ hack as it won't draw background all the time */
@supports (-webkit-hyphens: none) {
  .wrap .main section:before {
    color: red;
    background: transparent;
    opacity: 1;
    font-weight: bold;
    font-size: 1.2rem;
  }
  .wrap section h2 {
    padding-left: 1.2rem;
  }
}
.wrap .section2:before {
  transform: translateX(calc(100% + 1px));
}
/* magic number alerts below */
.wrap .section3:before {
  transform: translateX(calc(200% + 1px));
}
.wrap .section4:before {
  transform: translateX(calc(300% + 1px));
}
.wrap .section5:before {
  transform: translateX(calc(400% + 1px));
}
.wrap .section6:before {
  transform: translateX(calc(500% + 1px));
}
.wrap .section7:before {
  transform: translateX(calc(600% + 1px));
}
.wrap .section8:before {
  transform: translateX(calc(700% + 1px));
}
@media screen and (max-width: 880px) {
  .nav {
    font-size: 1rem;
  }
}
@media screen and (max-width: 660px) {
  .nav span {
    display: none;
  }
}
@media screen and (max-width: 365px) {
  .nav {
    font-size: 0.9rem;
    font-weight: normal;
  }
}

//nope

//side menu version here : https://codepen.io/paulobrien/pen/xxXrLVE