How to get the scroll position of an element in JavaScript
When you are building a user interface in the browser, you might have an element which can be scrolled, and it's a common need to know the horizontal and vertical scrolling it currently has.
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How can you do that?
Once you have the element, you can inspect its scrollLeft
and scrollTop
properties.
The 0, 0
position is always found in the top left corner, so any scrolling is relative to that.
Example:
const container = document.querySelector('. container')
container.scrollTop
container.scrollLeft
Those properties are read/write, so you can also set the scroll position:
const container = document.querySelector('. container')
container.scrollTop = 1000
container.scrollLeft = 1000
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