Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference

Name

scrollLeft, scrollTop — NN n/a IE 4 DOM n/a

Synopsis

Read/Write

The distance in pixels between the actual left or top edge of the element’s physical content and the left or top edge of the visible portion of the content. Setting these properties allows you to use a script to adjust the scrolling of content within a scrollable container, such as text in a TEXTAREA element or an entire document in the browser window or frame. When the content is not scrolled, both values are zero. Setting the scrollTop property to 15 scrolls the document upward by 15 pixels in the window; the scrollLeft property is unaffected unless explicitly changed. The property values change as the user adjusts the scrollbars.

Example

document.all.myButton.scrollTop = 40

Value

Positive integer or zero.

Default

0