Check scrolling with CSS

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Determine by Cursor Location

One way you could do this would be to only show the .toTop element when the user is hovering over the content of the page itself, well below the header, and navigation links:

.toTop { opacity: 0; }
.toTop:hover, main:hover + .toTop { opacity: 1; }

You can see the effect here: http://jsfiddle.net/GFfbe/1/

Or, Slowly Uncover It

Alternatively, you could slowly uncover the .toTop link with another element. In the example below, I use the body’s pseudo element ::before to cover up the .toTop element, and slowly reveal it as the user scrolls:

/* .toTop will appear in the left margin */
body {
    margin: 0 10em;
}

/* Positioned and sized to overlap .toTop */
body::before {
    content: "";
    background: white;
    position: absolute;
    bottom: 0; left: 0;
    width: 100%; height: 5em;
}

/* Positioned, so body::before goes behind it */
main {
    position: relative;
}

/* Attached to viewport at bottom left */
.toTop {
    z-index: -1;
    position: fixed;
    bottom: 1em; left: 1em;
}

You can see this effect here: http://jsfiddle.net/GFfbe/2/

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