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How do I scroll to an element which is present inside an overflow div which itself is inside an an overflow container? [duplicate]

I am creating a chat using Ajax requests and I'm trying to get messages div to scroll to the bottom without much luck.
I am wrapping everything in this div:
#scroll {
height:400px;
overflow:scroll;
}
Is there a way to keep it scrolled to the bottom by default using JS?
Is there a way to keep it scrolled to the bottom after an ajax request?

Here's what I use on my site:
var objDiv = document.getElementById("your_div");
objDiv.scrollTop = objDiv.scrollHeight;

This is much easier if you're using jQuery scrollTop:
$("#mydiv").scrollTop($("#mydiv")[0].scrollHeight);

Try the code below:
const scrollToBottom = (id) => {
const element = document.getElementById(id);
element.scrollTop = element.scrollHeight;
}
You can also use Jquery to make the scroll smooth:
const scrollSmoothlyToBottom = (id) => {
const element = $(`#${id}`);
element.animate({
scrollTop: element.prop("scrollHeight")
}, 500);
}
Here is the demo
Here's how it works:
Ref: scrollTop, scrollHeight, clientHeight

using jQuery animate:
$('#DebugContainer').stop().animate({
scrollTop: $('#DebugContainer')[0].scrollHeight
}, 800);

Newer method that works on all current browsers:
this.scrollIntoView(false);

var mydiv = $("#scroll");
mydiv.scrollTop(mydiv.prop("scrollHeight"));
Works from jQuery 1.6
https://api.jquery.com/scrollTop/
http://api.jquery.com/prop/

alternative solution
function scrollToBottom(element) {
element.scroll({ top: element.scrollHeight, behavior: 'smooth' });
}

smooth scroll with Javascript:
document.getElementById('messages').scrollIntoView({ behavior: 'smooth', block: 'end' });

If you don't want to rely on scrollHeight, the following code helps:
$('#scroll').scrollTop(1000000);

Java Script:
document.getElementById('messages').scrollIntoView(false);
Scrolls to the last line of the content present.

My Scenario: I had an list of string, in which I had to append a string given by a user and scroll to the end of the list automatically. I had fixed height of the display of the list, after which it should overflow.
I tried #Jeremy Ruten's answer, it worked, but it was scrolling to the (n-1)th element. If anybody is facing this type of issue, you can use setTimeOut() method workaround. You need to modify the code to below:
setTimeout(() => {
var objDiv = document.getElementById('div_id');
objDiv.scrollTop = objDiv.scrollHeight
}, 0)
Here is the StcakBlitz link I have created which shows the problem and its solution : https://stackblitz.com/edit/angular-ivy-x9esw8

If your project targets modern browsers, you can now use CSS Scroll Snap to control the scrolling behavior, such as keeping any dynamically generated element at the bottom.
.wrapper > div {
background-color: white;
border-radius: 5px;
padding: 5px 10px;
text-align: center;
font-family: system-ui, sans-serif;
}
.wrapper {
display: flex;
padding: 5px;
background-color: #ccc;
border-radius: 5px;
flex-direction: column;
gap: 5px;
margin: 10px;
max-height: 150px;
/* Control snap from here */
overflow-y: auto;
overscroll-behavior-y: contain;
scroll-snap-type: y mandatory;
}
.wrapper > div:last-child {
scroll-snap-align: start;
}
<div class="wrapper">
<div>01</div>
<div>02</div>
<div>03</div>
<div>04</div>
<div>05</div>
<div>06</div>
<div>07</div>
<div>08</div>
<div>09</div>
<div>10</div>
</div>

You can use the HTML DOM scrollIntoView Method like this:
var element = document.getElementById("scroll");
element.scrollIntoView();

Javascript or jquery:
var scroll = document.getElementById('messages');
scroll.scrollTop = scroll.scrollHeight;
scroll.animate({scrollTop: scroll.scrollHeight});
Css:
.messages
{
height: 100%;
overflow: auto;
}

Using jQuery, scrollTop is used to set the vertical position of scollbar for any given element. there is also a nice jquery scrollTo plugin used to scroll with animation and different options (demos)
var myDiv = $("#div_id").get(0);
myDiv.scrollTop = myDiv.scrollHeight;
if you want to use jQuery's animate method to add animation while scrolling down, check the following snippet:
var myDiv = $("#div_id").get(0);
myDiv.animate({
scrollTop: myDiv.scrollHeight
}, 500);

I have encountered the same problem, but with an additional constraint: I had no control over the code that appended new elements to the scroll container. None of the examples I found here allowed me to do just that. Here is the solution I ended up with .
It uses Mutation Observers (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MutationObserver) which makes it usable only on modern browsers (though polyfills exist)
So basically the code does just that :
var scrollContainer = document.getElementById("myId");
// Define the Mutation Observer
var observer = new MutationObserver(function(mutations) {
// Compute sum of the heights of added Nodes
var newNodesHeight = mutations.reduce(function(sum, mutation) {
return sum + [].slice.call(mutation.addedNodes)
.map(function (node) { return node.scrollHeight || 0; })
.reduce(function(sum, height) {return sum + height});
}, 0);
// Scroll to bottom if it was already scrolled to bottom
if (scrollContainer.clientHeight + scrollContainer.scrollTop + newNodesHeight + 10 >= scrollContainer.scrollHeight) {
scrollContainer.scrollTop = scrollContainer.scrollHeight;
}
});
// Observe the DOM Element
observer.observe(scrollContainer, {childList: true});
I made a fiddle to demonstrate the concept :
https://jsfiddle.net/j17r4bnk/

Found this really helpful, thank you.
For the Angular 1.X folks out there:
angular.module('myApp').controller('myController', ['$scope', '$document',
function($scope, $document) {
var overflowScrollElement = $document[0].getElementById('your_overflow_scroll_div');
overflowScrollElement[0].scrollTop = overflowScrollElement[0].scrollHeight;
}
]);
Just because the wrapping in jQuery elements versus HTML DOM elements gets a little confusing with angular.
Also for a chat application, I found making this assignment after your chats were loaded to be useful, you also might need to slap on short timeout as well.

Like you, I'm building a chat app and want the most recent message to scroll into view. This ultimately worked well for me:
//get the div that contains all the messages
let div = document.getElementById('message-container');
//make the last element (a message) to scroll into view, smoothly!
div.lastElementChild.scrollIntoView({ behavior: 'smooth' });

small addendum: scrolls only, if last line is already visible. if scrolled a tiny bit, leaves the content where it is (attention: not tested with different font sizes. this may need some adjustments inside ">= comparison"):
var objDiv = document.getElementById(id);
var doScroll=objDiv.scrollTop>=(objDiv.scrollHeight-objDiv.clientHeight);
// add new content to div
$('#' + id ).append("new line at end<br>"); // this is jquery!
// doScroll is true, if we the bottom line is already visible
if( doScroll) objDiv.scrollTop = objDiv.scrollHeight;

Just as a bonus snippet. I'm using angular and was trying to scroll a message thread to the bottom when a user selected different conversations with users. In order to make sure that the scroll works after the new data had been loaded into the div with the ng-repeat for messages, just wrap the scroll snippet in a timeout.
$timeout(function(){
var messageThread = document.getElementById('message-thread-div-id');
messageThread.scrollTop = messageThread.scrollHeight;
},0)
That will make sure that the scroll event is fired after the data has been inserted into the DOM.

This will let you scroll all the way down regards the document height
$('html, body').animate({scrollTop:$(document).height()}, 1000);

You can also, using jQuery, attach an animation to html,body of the document via:
$("html,body").animate({scrollTop:$("#div-id")[0].offsetTop}, 1000);
which will result in a smooth scroll to the top of the div with id "div-id".

Scroll to the last element inside the div:
myDiv.scrollTop = myDiv.lastChild.offsetTop

You can use the Element.scrollTo() method.
It can be animated using the built-in browser/OS animation, so it's super smooth.
function scrollToBottom() {
const scrollContainer = document.getElementById('container');
scrollContainer.scrollTo({
top: scrollContainer.scrollHeight,
left: 0,
behavior: 'smooth'
});
}
// initialize dummy content
const scrollContainer = document.getElementById('container');
const numCards = 100;
let contentInnerHtml = '';
for (let i=0; i<numCards; i++) {
contentInnerHtml += `<div class="card mb-2"><div class="card-body">Card ${i + 1}</div></div>`;
}
scrollContainer.innerHTML = contentInnerHtml;
.overflow-y-scroll {
overflow-y: scroll;
}
<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap#4.5.3/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<div class="d-flex flex-column vh-100">
<div id="container" class="overflow-y-scroll flex-grow-1"></div>
<div>
<button class="btn btn-primary" onclick="scrollToBottom()">Scroll to bottom</button>
</div>
</div>

Css only:
.scroll-container {
overflow-anchor: none;
}
Makes it so the scroll bar doesn't stay anchored to the top when a child element is added. For example, when new message is added at the bottom of chat, scroll chat to new message.

Why not use simple CSS to do this?
The trick is to use display: flex; and flex-direction: column-reverse;
Here is a working example. https://codepen.io/jimbol/pen/YVJzBg

A very simple method to this is to set the scroll to to the height of the div.
var myDiv = document.getElementById("myDiv");
window.scrollTo(0, myDiv.innerHeight);

On my Angular 6 application I just did this:
postMessage() {
// post functions here
let history = document.getElementById('history')
let interval
interval = setInterval(function() {
history.scrollTop = history.scrollHeight
clearInterval(interval)
}, 1)
}
The clearInterval(interval) function will stop the timer to allow manual scroll top / bottom.

I know this is an old question, but none of these solutions worked out for me. I ended up using offset().top to get the desired results. Here's what I used to gently scroll the screen down to the last message in my chat application:
$("#html, body").stop().animate({
scrollTop: $("#last-message").offset().top
}, 2000);
I hope this helps someone else.

I use the difference between the Y coordinate of the first item div and the Y coordinate of the selected item div. Here is the JavaScript/JQuery code and the html:
function scrollTo(event){
// In my proof of concept, I had a few <button>s with value
// attributes containing strings with id selector expressions
// like "#item1".
let selectItem = $($(event.target).attr('value'));
let selectedDivTop = selectItem.offset().top;
let scrollingDiv = selectItem.parent();
let firstItem = scrollingDiv.children('div').first();
let firstItemTop = firstItem.offset().top;
let newScrollValue = selectedDivTop - firstItemTop;
scrollingDiv.scrollTop(newScrollValue);
}
<div id="scrolling" style="height: 2rem; overflow-y: scroll">
<div id="item1">One</div>
<div id="item2">Two</div>
<div id="item3">Three</div>
<div id="item4">Four</div>
<div id="item5">Five</div>
</div>

Javascript button appear animation

I have the back to top button that appears when you reach a point on the page, which is working fine, however, when it appears the text is on two lines until the box has finished the animation to appear. So, is there anyway to prevent this? What I mean by the animation is: btt.show('slow');
Code:
$(document).ready(function () {
var btt = $('.back-to-top');
btt.on('click' , function(e) {
$('html, body').animate({
scrollTop: 0
}, 500);
btt.hide('slow');
e.preventDefault();
});
$(window).on('scroll', function () {
var self = $(this),
height = self.height(),
top = self.scrollTop();
if (top > 500) {
btt.show('slow');
} else {
btt.hide('slow');
}
});
});
Example: http://codepen.io/Riggster/pen/WvNvQm

The problem is caused by animating the width of a box, I think it might be better to animate the position of it instead, but - even better - lets use CSS animations!
$(window).on('scroll', function () {
if ($(window).scrollTop() >= 500) {
$(".button").addClass('show');
} else {
$(".button").removeClass('show');
}
});
#wrapper {
width: 100%;
height: 2000px;
}
.button {
position: fixed;
bottom: 50px;
right: -100px;
/* You might still need prefixes here. Use as preferred. */
transition: right 500ms;
}
.button.show {
right: 0;
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="wrapper">
<div class="button">Here's my button!</div>
</div>
I've defined your button as hidden by default, by giving it a position of right: -100px. When we hit the correct scroll position, we add the class show and that triggers the animation performed by CSS and not javascript, as we have the transition property for the property right defined - that way the browser does the heavy lifting.

Toggling show/hide alters your elements width. You either have to put it in a container with display: inline
Or more ideally you might want to change show/hide to jQuery fadeIn() / fadeOut() which is more appropriate for "Back to Top" indicators.
Here is your codepen example modified with inline container:
http://codepen.io/anon/pen/MwWweY

Get the first Element that is floating on next line

I have a list of Elements that are floating left:
<style>
ul {
overflow: hidden;
width: 100%;
}
ul li {
float: left;
width: 100px;
}
</style>
<ul>
<li id="#one">One</li>
<li id="#two">Two</li>
<li id="#three">Three</li>
...
</ul>
...having a window width of 200px the first Element that is floating on the second line would be #three... having a window width of just 100px that would be #two.
Now on every <li> there is a click-event bound, that should tell me which Element is the first Element on the next Line, seen by itself.
Clicking on #one with a window width of 200px I want to get #three, and with a window width of 100px I want to get #two.
I tried to solve this by getting the position of the Element that is clicked on, query the Position inside the window using .getBoundingClientRect(), get the height of the Element (taking 20px here), and then get the Element by using document.elementFromPoint(y,x)...something like this:
y = clicked_element.getBoundingClientRect().left
x = clicked_element.getBoundingClientRect().top + 21
first_element_on_next_line = document.elementFromPoint(y,x)
so far, so good... but of course this is just working if the first element on the next line is really inside the window! :-\
and this is where I'm stuck...if I have a window width of 200px and a window height of just 20px (just for the example), I just can't select #three with document.elementFromPoint() because its position is outside the window.
I could also use jQuery, it's included anyways, but everything came across was using document.elementFromPoint()
Any Ideas??

You could use following logic using jQuery .position() method: {as suggested by maja}
$(function () {
var $lis = $('ul li').on('click', function(){
var $nextFirstElement = $(this).nextAll('.first').first();
console.log($nextFirstElement);
});
$(window).on('resize', function () {
var initialLeft;
$lis.each(function(i){
if (i === 0) { // this could be put out of the loop, but...
initialLeft = $(this).position().left;
}
$(this).toggleClass('first', i === 0 || $(this).position().left === initialLeft);
});
}).resize();
});
-jsFiddle-

The Solution I'm using now (which in fact is the Solution charlietfl brought up in the Comments) is this:
$(function(){
var list = $("ul"),
lis = list.children(),
first_li = lis.first(),
list_width, first_li_width, items_per_line
var set_vars = function(){
list_width = list.width()
first_li_width = first_li.width()
items_per_row = Math.floor(list_width / first_li_width)
}
set_vars()
lis.click(function(){
index = lis.index(this)
next_first_index = index + (items_per_row - (index % items_per_row))
console.log(next_first_index)
})
$(window).resize(function(){
set_vars()
})
})

Wait for image full load on ajax action

On my page there is ajax action, which loads div, that contain image on left and text on right.
The problem: first of all text loads, and on the left (it aligned left), then image loads, text shifts on right, and that looks really not smooth.
I tried something like :
$('div#to_load').ready(function() {
$('div#to_load').fadeIn();
});
but that doesn't help.
What can I do?

Update
I think you have to try this trick found here :
$("<img />", { src:"thelinkofyourimage"}).appendTo("div#to_load").fadeOut(0).fadeIn(1000);
Have a look to this fiddle : http://jsfiddle.net/qYHCn/.

You could track when all the images have loaded like so
var element = $('div#to_load');
var images = element.find('img');
var count = images.length;
for( var i = 0; i < count; i++) {
$(images[i]).load(function(){
count--;
if( count === 0 ){
element.fadeIn();
}
});
}

You could smoothly animate it in with jQuery (handy anyway when you are doing your ajax requests with jQuery):
jQuery
$("body").prepend('<img src="http://placehold.it/150x150" alt="img">');
$("img").animate({
opacity: 1,
left: 0
}, 700);
CSS
img {
float: left;
margin-right: 0.8em ;
left: -300px;
position: relative;
}
Fiddle.

Try to load image and text separately, not at once.
And for the shifting problem put image inside another div and define the size when it loads. Then text can't come to image space since we already giving space for image div.
sample code
$('#ImageID')
.load(
function(){
//Do stuff once the image specified above is loaded
$('#textId').html('your text');
}
);

If you don't want content to shift, you must declare the size the image will take up so that the required space is already accounted for when the browser does it's render.
Make sure you declare the size of the image, or the size of the container before you load
<div id="to_load">
<img src="...." height="400" width="400" />
</div>
or
<div id="to_load" style="height:400px;width:400px;overflow:hidden">
..dynamic content
</div>
Declaring image size either on the img element or in your stylesheet is a best practice recommendation anyways
Reflows & Repaint
Maybe you'd like something like this
#to_load {
width: 523px;
height: 192px;
}
#to_load img {
display: none;
}
setTimeout(function() {
$("<img />", { src:"http://ejohn.org/apps/workshop/adv-talk/jquery_logo.png"})
.on('load', function(){
$(this).appendTo("#to_load").fadeIn(500);
});
},1000);
http://jsfiddle.net/AWntU/

How can I Animate an Element to its natural height using jQuery [duplicate]

This question already has answers here:
Animate element to auto height with jQuery
(21 answers)
Closed 7 years ago.
I'm trying to get an element to animate to its "natural" height - i.e. the height it would be if it had height: auto;.
I've come up with this:
var currentHeight = $this.height();
$this.css('height', 'auto');
var height = $this.height();
$this.css('height', currentHeight + 'px');
$this.animate({'height': height});
Is there a better way to do this? It feels like a bit of a hack.
Edit:
Here's a complete script to play with for anyone that wants to test.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>jQuery</title>
<style type="text/css">
p { overflow: hidden; background-color: red; border: 1px solid black; }
.closed { height: 1px; }
</style>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$().ready(function()
{
$('div').click(function()
{
$('p').each(function()
{
var $this = $(this);
if ($this.hasClass('closed'))
{
var currentHeight = $this.height();
$this.css('height', 'auto');
var height = $this.height();
$this.css('height', currentHeight + 'px');
$this.animate({'height': height});
}
else
{
$this.animate({'height': 1});
}
$this.toggleClass('closed');
});
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div>Click Me</div>
<p>Hello - I started open</p>
<p class="closed">Hello - I started closed</p>
</body>
</html>

I permit myself to answer this thread, even if it's been answered a long time ago, cuz it just helped me.
In fact, i don't understand the first answer : why opening a half-closed element to get its height, and then closing it again ?
At the beginning, you hide the element so that just a part of it appears, right ? The best way (i believe) to do this is onready, with javascript. So, when you hide the element onready, just save the orig height in a var, so you don't have to hide(onready)-show-save height-hide to be able to toggle the elements visibility.
Look at what i did, it works perfectly :
$(document).ready(function(){
var origHeight = $("#foo").css('height');
$("#foo").css({"height" : "80px"});
$("#foo .toggle").bind("click", function(event){ toggleFoo(event, lastSearchesMidHeight); });
});
Here, when you call your toggle function, you know what is your original element height without wanking around.
I wrote it fast, hoping it could help someone in the future.

the easiest solution I found was to simply wrap the content element with a div that is limited in height and set to overflow:hidden. This truncates the inner content element to the height of the wrapping div. when the user clicks, hovers, etc. to show the full height of the content element - simply animate the wrapping div to the height of the inner content div.

I could suggest an equally-hackish solution...Clone the element, position it out of view, and get its height...then delete it and animate your original.
That aside, you could also use $.slideUp() and $.slideDown():
$this.hasClass('closed') ? $(this).slideDown() : $(this).slideUp() ;
If you need to keep a 1px line, you can apply that with a parent element:
<div style='border-top:1px solid #333333'>
<div class='toggleMe'>Hello World</div>
</div>
And apply the slidingUp/Down on the .toggleMe div.

I'd also like to chime in on this old thread, if I may, in case my solution helps anyone. My specific situation is this: I have some div's that are set with a max-height value that limits them to three lines tall, and when the user mouseovers them I want them to expand to their natural height; and when the mouse cursor leaves the div, I want them to shrink back down to the clipped, max-three-lines-tall height. I need to use the CSS max-height property, rather than height, because I have some div's that contain only one or two lines of text and I don't want them unnecessarily tall.
I tried many of the solutions in this thread, and the one that worked for me was the 'hackish suggestion' involving cloned elements suggested by Jonathan Sampson. I translated his idea into the following code. Please feel free to suggest improvements.
The functions are delegated to a parent element to handle div's created via an Ajax call. The div.overflow_expandable class has the following declaration: { max-height: 5em; overflow: hidden; }
$('#results').delegate('div.overflow_expandable', 'mouseenter', function() {
var $this = $(this);
// Close any other open divs
$('#results div.overflow_expandable').not($(this)).trigger('mouseleave');
// We need to convert the div's current natural height (which is less than
// or equal to its CSS max-height) to be a defined CSS 'height' property,
// which can then animate; and we unset max-height so that it doesn't
// prevent the div from growing taller.
if (!$this.data('originalHeight')) {
$this.data('originalHeight', $this.height());
$this.data('originalMaxHeight', parseInt($this.css('max-height')));
$this.css({ 'max-height':'none',
height: $this.data('originalHeight') });
}
// Now slide out if the div is at its original height
// (i.e. in 'closed' state) and if its original height was equal to
// its original 'max-height' (so when closed, it had overflow clipped)
if ($this.height() == $this.data('originalHeight') &&
$this.data('originalMaxHeight') == $this.data('originalHeight')) {
// To figure out the new height, clone the original element and set
// its height to auto, then measure the cloned element's new height;
// then animate our div to that height
var $clone = $this.clone().css({ height: 'auto', position: 'absolute',
zIndex: '-9999', left: '-9999px', width: $this.width() })
.appendTo($this);
$this.animate({ height: $clone.height() }, 'slow');
$clone.detach();
}
}).delegate('div.overflow_expandable', 'mouseleave', function() {
var $this = $(this);
// If the div has 'originalHeight' defined (it's been opened before) and
// if it's current height is greater than 'originalHeight' (it's open
// now), slide it back to its original height
if ($this.data('originalHeight') &&
$this.height() > $this.data('originalHeight'))
$this.animate({ height: $this.data('originalHeight') }, 'slow');
});

Found this post and end up using Greg's original 1px suggestion - works great!
Just added a callback to the animate function, to set the height of the element to 'auto' when the animation ends (in my case, the content of that specific element could change and be bigger).

$('div').click(function() {
if($('p').is(':hidden')) {
$('p').slideUp();
} else {
$('p').slideDown(function() { $('p').css('height','1px'); });
}
}
That should set the height of the p tags to be 1px once they've finished sliding.

This worked for me.
<div class="product-category">
<div class="category-name">
Cars
</div>
<div class="category-products" style="display: none; overflow: hidden;">
<div class="product">Red Car</div>
<div class="product">Green Car</div>
<div class="product">Yellow Car</div>
</div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$('.product-category .category-name').click(function() {
if ($(this).parent().hasClass('active')) {
$(this).parent().removeClass('active');
var height = $(this).parent().find('.category-products').height();
$(this).parent().find('.category-products').animate({ height : '0px' }, 600, function() {
$(this).parent().find('.category-products').height(height).hide();
});
} else {
$(this).parent().addClass('active');
var height = $(this).parent().find('.category-products').height();
$(this).parent().find('.category-products').height(0).show().animate({ height : height + 'px' }, 600);
}
});
});
</script>

My solution is to store in the data attribute of the close button the original size of container (could have been stored also in the container itself, if you don't use the same button to also show again the container):
$(document).ready(function(){
$('.infoBox .closeBtn').toggle(hideBox, showBox);
});
function hideBox()
{
var parent = $(this).parent();
$(this).text('Show').data('originalHeight', parent.css('height'));
parent.animate({'height': 20});
return false;
}
function showBox()
{
var parent = $(this).parent();
$(this).text('Hide');
parent.animate({
'height': $(this).data('originalHeight')
});
return false;
}

I wanted to point to this answer, which suggest setting the height to "show" with the animate() function. I had to edit my "slideUp" style animate to use height:"hide" to work with it.