How to get scrollTop of an iframe

I found this question while trying to SET scrollTop inside an iframe... not exactly your question (you wanted to GET) but here's a solution inside iframes for people that also end up here trying to SET.

If you want to scroll to the top of the page this will NOT work inside an iframe:

$("html,body").scrollTop(0);

However, this will work:

document.getElementById("wrapper").scrollIntoView();

Or the equivilent with jQuery:

 $("#wrapper")[0].scrollIntoView();

For this markup (contained inside an iframe):

<html>
  <body>
    <div id="wrapper">
      <!-- lots of content -->
    </div>
  </body>
</html>


$('#myIframe').contents().scrollTop()

You can set scrollTop by using this setup:

$("html,body").scrollTop(25);

So you could try getting it like this:

$("html,body").scrollTop();

Because different browsers set the scrollTop on different elements (body or html).

From the scrollTo plugin:

But that will probably still fail in certain browsers. Here is the relevant section from the source code of Ariel Flesher's scrollTo plugin for jQuery:

// Hack, hack, hack :)
// Returns the real elements to scroll (supports window/iframes, documents and regular nodes)
$.fn._scrollable = function(){
  return this.map(function(){
    var elem = this,
      isWin = !elem.nodeName || $.inArray( elem.nodeName.toLowerCase(), ['iframe','#document','html','body'] ) != -1;

    if( ! isWin ) {
      return elem;
    }


    var doc = (elem.contentWindow || elem).document || elem.ownerDocument || elem;

     return $.browser.safari || doc.compatMode == 'BackCompat' ?
       doc.body : 
       doc.documentElement;
  });
};

You may then run:

$(window)._scrollable().scrollTop();

To determine how far the iframe has scrolled down.

Tags:

Jquery

Iframe

Dimensions

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