How to get the scroll position of an element in JavaScript

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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Published Dec 01, 2018