jQuery CSS - Get the scroll top and scroll left position of an element

Last update on August 19 2022 21:51:36 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

jQuery CSS: Exercise-4 with Solution

Get the scroll top and left position of an element.

Test Data :

<body>
 <p></p>
 </body>

Solution:

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.1.min.js"></script>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>Get the scroll top and left position of an element</title>
  <style>
   p {
    margin-top:20px;
    margin-left: 10px;
    padding: 5px;
    border: 2px solid #666;
  }
  </style>
</head>
<body>
  <p> </p>
</body>
</html>

JavaScript Code :

console.log("Scroll left, top position  of the  Paragraph are:"+$("p").scrollLeft()+',' +$("p").scrollTop());

Live Demo:

See the Pen jquery-css-exercise-4 by w3resource (@w3resource) on CodePen.

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