How to do horizontal parallax scrolling

Question

I'm using the latest version of Bootstrap, JQuery, and Skrollr.

I would like to have a static background and a couple scenes that occur as you scroll by parallax scrolling. I'm able to make scenes as you scroll but I'm looking for a way to where it appears that you are not moving down the page.

I'm looking to make a scene like this image:

Notice how it moves right-left but never appears like you are actually scrolling down the page.

That's the best I can explain it. Can't seem to find any good tutorials to accomplish this. Any help in the right direction would be outstanding.

Answer 1

As mentioned in the comments, horizontal scrolling isn't supported by skrollr, but you can do something else:

You can use the vertical scrollbar to animate elements in a horizontally.

Here's a Stack Overflow post on Horizontal scrolling effect with Skrollr
And here's a working demo in jsFiddle from that post

Hope this gets you going.

Answer 2

jInvertScroll allows for horizontal scrolling and supports parallax.

Here's an article on how to create horizontal parallax scrolling with jInvertScroll

Just use different values for horizon and middle scroll

<div class="horizon scroll">
  <img src="http://i.imgur.com/IImTBHM.png" alt="Background" />
</div>

<div class="middle scroll">
  <img src="http://i.imgur.com/e2pwKbv.png" alt="Clouds and Baloons" />
</div>

Here's a demo in stack snippets:

Note: Try viewing in full page

(function($) {
  $.jInvertScroll(['.scroll']);
}(jQuery));

html, body {
  padding: 0;
  margin: 0;
  font-family:'Open Sans', sans-serif;
  font-weight: 300;
  font-size: 16px;
  color: #555;
  background: #9fdefd;
}
h1, h2 {
  color: #238acb;
}
.horizon {
  line-height: 0;
  z-index: 100;
  width: 3000px;
}
.middle {
  line-height: 0;
  z-index: 250;
  width: 4500px;
}
.front {
  z-index: 500;
  top: 150px;
  width: 6000px;
}
.intro {
  position: absolute;
  left: 500px;
  top: 0px;
  padding-right: 50px;
  background: url('http://i.imgur.com/3woqwh2.png') no-repeat right 5px;
}
.page {
  position: absolute;  
  top: 0px;
  width: 500px;
  background: white;
  padding: 10px 30px;
  border: 1px #eee solid;

}
.panel1 {
  left: 1500px;
}
.panel2 {
  left: 2575px;
}
.panel3 {
  left: 3800px;
}
.panel4 {
  left: 5100px;
}

<link href="http://www.pixxelfactory.net/jInvertScroll/css/jInvertScroll.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://www.pixxelfactory.net/jInvertScroll/js/jquery.jInvertScroll.js"></script>


<div class="container">

  <div class="horizon scroll">
    <img src="http://i.imgur.com/IImTBHM.png" alt="Background" />
  </div>

  <div class="middle scroll">
    <img src="http://i.imgur.com/e2pwKbv.png" alt="Clouds and Baloons" />
  </div>

  <div class="front scroll">
    <h1 class="intro">Scroll down</h1>

    <div class="panel1 page">
      <h2>The Hot Air Balloon</h2>

    </div>

    <div class="panel2 page">
      <h2>How they work</h2> 

    </div>

    <div class="panel3 page">
      <h2>Practicalities</h2>

    </div>

    <div class="panel4 page">
      <h2>Section 4</h2>

    </div>
  </div>
</div>