Check whether HTML element has scrollbars

Question

What\'s the fastest way of checking whether an element has scroll bars?

One thing of course is checking whether element is larger than its viewport, which can easily

Answer 1

I found this somewhere a couple of weeks ago. It worked for me.

var div = document.getElementById('container_div_id');

var hasHorizontalScrollbar = div.scrollWidth > div.clientWidth;
var hasVerticalScrollbar = div.scrollHeight > div.clientHeight;

/* you'll get true/false */