Opposite of “scrollTop” in jQuery

Question

jQuery has a function called scrollTop which can be used to find the number of pixels hidden above the current page view.

I\'m not really sure why, but there is no s

Answer 1

You could make a pretty simple plugin for this:

$.fn.scrollBottom = function() { 
  return $(document).height() - this.scrollTop() - this.height(); 
};

Then call it on whatever element you wanted, for example:

$(window).scrollBottom();  //how many pixels below current view
$("#elem").scrollBottom(); //how many pixels below element