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

none of this answers are correct. you have to use this :

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

var hasHorizontalScrollbar = (div.offsetWidth > div.clientWidth);
var hasVerticalScrollbar = (div.offsetHeight > div.clientHeight);