How to reliably get screen width WITH the scrollbar

Question

Is there a way to reliably tell a browser\'s viewport width that includes the scrollbar, but not the rest of browser window)?

None of the properties listed here tell

Answer 1

With jQuery you can calculate the browser's scrollbar width by getting the width difference when overflow: hidden is set and overflow: scroll is set. The difference in width will be the size of the scrollbar.

Here is a simple example that shows how you could do this.