HTML DOM scrollTop Property

The HTML DOM scrollTop property returns and modify the value of the element’s content scrolled vertically in pixels in an HTML document.

Syntax

Following is the syntax −

Returning scrollTop

element.scrollTop

Adding scrollTop

element.scrollTop = value

Here value is in pixels

Example

Let us see an example of scrollTop property −

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
   body{
      text-align:center;
      color:#fff;
      background: #ff7f5094;
      height:100%;
   }
   p{
      font-weight:700;
      font-size:1.8rem;
      height:80px;
      overflow:auto;
      width:150px;
      margin:20px auto;
   }
   .btn{
      background:#0197F6;
      border:none;
      height:2rem;
      border-radius:2px;
      width:35%;
      margin:2rem auto;
      display:block;
      color:#fff;
      outline:none;
      cursor:pointer;
   }
   .show{
      font-size:1.5rem;
   }
   #myDIV {
      height: 200px;
      width: 200px;
      overflow: auto;
      margin:20px auto;
   }
   #content {
      height: 400px;
      width: 1000px;
      background-color: lightblue;
   }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>DOM scrollLeft/scrollTop Property Demo</h1>
<div id="myDIV" onscroll="display()">
<div id="content"></div>
</div>
<div class="show"></div>
<script>
   function display() {
      var elmnt = document.getElementById("myDIV");
      var x = elmnt.scrollLeft;
      var y = elmnt.scrollTop;
      document.querySelector(".show").innerHTML = "Top Scroll = " + x + "px Left Scroll = " + y + "px";
   }
</script>
</body>
</html>

Output

This will produce the following output −

HTML DOM scrollTop Property

Now scroll inside the blue box to get the value of top scroll and left scroll.

HTML DOM scrollTop Property