95094 - abscence of properties and events in DOM relating to CSS: 'overflow: scroll'

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 62536

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, enhancement)

Description

[Chris Bodart]

When an HTML element is given CSS 'overflow:scroll' there does not appear to be 
anyway to access the positions (or scroll Offsets) of the particular element

MSIE browsers provide the following values:

scrollWidth,scrollHeight,scrollLeft,scrollTop

and also the onScroll event

these properties are very useful for determining (and as the are not read-only 
for controlling) what elements are visible to the user and can be used to 
scroll specific elements into view and so forth (I do not believe that there is 
a workaround possible)

i have not really found the onscroll event to be of that much use but it may be 
worth considering implementing as well, perhaps they should even be in the 
specifications

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

See bug 35011 for onScroll...

Comment 2

[Fabian Guisset]

Probably a dup of bug 62536. Reporter what do you think?

Comment 3

[Dylan Schiemann]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 62536 ***

Comment 4

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

ok...