HTML DOM Element scrollWidth
Examples
Get the height and width of an element, including padding:
const element = document.getElementById("content");
let x = element.scrollHeight;
let y = element.scrollWidth;
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How padding, border, and scrollbar affects the scrollWidth and scrollHeight:
const element = document.getElementById("content");
let x = element.scrollHeight;
let y = element.scrollWidth;
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More examples below.
Description
The scrollWidth property returns the width of an element,
including padding, excluding borders, scrollbars or margins.
The scrollWidth property returns the width in pixels.
The scrollWidth property is read-only.
Note
Both scrollWidth and scrollHeight
return the entire height and width of an element, including what is not viewable (because of overflow).
See Also:
Syntax
element.scrollWidth
Return Value
| Type | Description |
| Number | The width of the element, in pixels. |
More Examples
Set the height and width of an element to the values returned from scrollHeight and scrollWidth:
element.style.height = element.scrollHeight + "px";
element.style.width = element.scrollWidth + "px";
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Browser Support
element.scrollWidth is supported in all browsers:
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Safari | Opera | IE |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
