How do I get the scroll position of a document?

Question

How to get the scroll position value of a document?

Answer 1

To get the actual scrollable height of the areas scrolled by the window scrollbar, I used $('body').prop('scrollHeight'). This seems to be the simplest working solution, but I haven't checked extensively for compatibility. Emanuele Del Grande notes on another solution that this probably won't work for IE below 8.

Most of the other solutions work fine for scrollable elements, but this works for the whole window. Notably, I had the same issue as Michael for Ankit's solution, namely, that $(document).prop('scrollHeight') is returning undefined.