How do I get the max value of scrollLeft?

Question

Okay I\'m using jQuery and currently getting max value of scrollbar doing this:

var $body = $(\'body\');
$body.scrollLeft(99999); // will give me the max val         


        

Answer 1

You can calculate the maximum value of element.scrollLeft with:

var maxScrollLeft = element.scrollWidth - element.clientWidth;

Note that there could be some browser specific quirks that I'm not aware of.