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

Question

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

Answer 1

Try to use var scrollTop = $(document).scrollTop();

Answer 2

After some frustration with IE9 in quirks mode, I've found the that $('body').scrollTop() works reliably in IE9, Chrome 32 and Firefox 26.

Answer 3

$(window).scrollTop() works as expected in both Firefox and Chrome.

For verification run the following jsfiddle in both chrome and firefox: http://jsfiddle.net/RBBw5/6/

Answer 4

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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