Make “scrollLeft” / “scrollTop” changes not trigger scroll event listener

Question

Currently my program is in a spot where it both listens for the user to scroll a certain element, but also, at times, automatically scrolls this element by itself. (Not a gr

Answer 1

You could try storing the offset top of your element and matching it against the scrollTop when you step inside onScroll:

function onScroll(){
    var scrollTop = (document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.body.scrollTop),
    offsetTop = $('selector').offset().top;
    if(offsetTop > scrollTop){
      //user has not scrolled to element so do auto scrolling
    }
}