scrollTop() returns 0 in Firefox, but not in Chrome

Question

Not sure if there\'s another question regarding this, if so I apologize and please don\'t release the hounds.

Using the html5 doctype and doing a quick console.log o

Answer 1

Use var scrollTop = $('html').scrollTop(); works for FireFox

You'll need to sniff the browser out though (I know, feature detect, not sniff, but you can't detect this), because it won't work in Chrome, try here :

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