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Gecko DOM Reference

scrollHeight

DHTML property that gets the height of the scroll view of an element; it includes the element padding but not its margin.

Syntax and values

var intElemScrollHeight = document.getElementById(id_attribute_value).scrollHeight;

intElemScrollHeight is a variable storing an integer corresponding to the scrollHeight pixel value of the element.
scrollHeight is a read-only property.

Description

An element's scrollHeight is a measurement of the height of an element's content given for a certain width of such element viewport. The scrollHeight of an element is reverse proportional to its CSS width.
When an element content does not generate a vertical scrollbar, then its DHTML clientHeight property value is equal to its scrollHeight.

Example

Left Top Right Bottom margin-top margin-bottom border-top border-bottom

padding-top

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padding-bottom

Dimensions and borderlines of scrollHeight

Specification

scrollHeight is part of the MSIE's DHTML object model.
scrollHeight is not part of any W3C specification or technical recommendation.

Notes

scrollHeight is a property of the DHTML object model which was first introduced by MSIE. It is referred as the height of an element physical scrolling view.

References

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