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scrollTop
DHTML property that sets or gets the distance between the top of an element and the topmost portion of its content currently visible.
Syntax and values
var intElemScrollTop = document.getElementById(id_attribute_value).scrollTop;
document.getElementById(id_attribute_value).scrollTop = intValue;
intElemScrollTop is a variable storing an integer corresponding to the
scrollTop pixel value of the element.
scrollTop is a read/write property.
Description
An element's scrollTop is a measurement of the distance of an element's top to its topmost
visible content.
When an element content does not generate a vertical scrollbar, then its scrollTop value
defaults to 0.
Interactive example
padding-top
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padding-bottom
Specification
scrollTop is part of the MSIE's
DHTML object model.
scrollTop
is not part of any W3C specification or
technical recommendation.
Notes
scrollTop is a property of the DHTML object model which was first introduced by MSIE. It is referred as the distance to the top of an element physical scrolling view.
References
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