HTML DOM scrollLeft Property

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

Syntax

Following is the syntax −

Returning scrollLeft

element.scrollLeft

Adding scrollLeft

element.scrollLeft = value

Here value is in pixels

Example

Let us see an example of scrollLeft 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 scrollLeft Property

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

HTML DOM scrollLeft Property