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Okay I'm using jQuery and currently getting max value of scrollbar doing this:



var $body = $('body');
$body.scrollLeft(99999); // will give me the max value since I've overshot
var max_value = $body.scrollLeft(); // returns 300
$('body').scrollLeft(0);


When I try this: $body[0].scrollWidth I just get the actual width of the contents - 1580



I'm thinking there has to be a better way I'm forgetting.



EDIT
To clarify, I also tried $(window).width() and $(document).width() which gave me 1280 and 1580, respectively.


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You can calculate the maximum value of element.scrollLeft with:



var maxScrollLeft = element.scrollWidth - element.clientWidth;


Note that there could be some browser specific quirks that I'm not aware of.


[#93546] Friday, February 25, 2011, 14 Years  [reply] [flag answer]
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