Flexible pagination

Pagination concept capable of adapting to a large number of pages and also function as a pseudo-scrollbar.

by godfrzero

HTML

<div>
  <div class="hero-placeholder">
    Placeholder
  </div>
  <div class="paginated-container">
    <div class="page-markers">
      <ol id="page-marker-start">
        <li>1</li>
      </ol>
      <ol id="page-marker-intermediates">
        <li>2</li>
        <li>3</li>
      </ol>
      <ol id="page-marker-end">
        <li>32</li>
      </ol>
    </div>
    <table id="paginated-contents"></table>
  </div>
  <template id="page-template">
    <tr class="page">
      <td>
        <div class="page-header">Iteration 1</div>
        <div class="page-contents">
          <p>
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          </p>
          <p>
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          </p>
          <p>   
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CSS

body {
  font-family: sans-serif;
}

.hero-placeholder {
  background: grey;
  height: 700px;
  line-height: 700px;
  text-align: center;
  color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.2);
  font-size: 2em;
  font-weight: bold;
}

#page-count {
  width: 100%;
  margin: 0;
  box-sizing: border-box;
}

.page-header,
.page-contents {
  padding: 8px 64px 8px 8px;
}

.page-header {
  background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
}

.page-contents p:not(:last-child) {
  margin-bottom: 16px;
}

.paginated-container {
  position: relative;
}

.page-markers {
  position: absolute;
  right: 0;
}

JavaScript

const pageCount = 32;
const appendPage = function(pageNumber) {
  // Instantiate the table with the existing HTML tbody
  // and the row with the template
  const target = document.querySelector('#paginated-contents');
  const template = document.querySelector('#page-template');

  // Clone the new row and insert it into the table
  const clone = template.content.cloneNode(true);
  let header = clone.querySelector('.page-header');
  
  header.textContent = `Page ${pageNumber}`;
  
  target.appendChild(clone);
}

for (i = 1; i <= pageCount; i++) {
	appendPage(i);
}