Get the scrollbar sizes in javascript

Question

How to determine the height of an horizontal scroolbar, or the width of a vertical one in javascript ?

Answer 1

From Alexandre Gomes Blog I have not tried it. Let me know if it works for you.

function getScrollBarWidth () {
  var inner = document.createElement('p');
  inner.style.width = "100%";
  inner.style.height = "200px";

  var outer = document.createElement('div');
  outer.style.position = "absolute";
  outer.style.top = "0px";
  outer.style.left = "0px";
  outer.style.visibility = "hidden";
  outer.style.width = "200px";
  outer.style.height = "150px";
  outer.style.overflow = "hidden";
  outer.appendChild (inner);

  document.body.appendChild (outer);
  var w1 = inner.offsetWidth;
  outer.style.overflow = 'scroll';
  var w2 = inner.offsetWidth;
  if (w1 == w2) w2 = outer.clientWidth;

  document.body.removeChild (outer);

  return (w1 - w2);
};

Answer 2

window.scrollBarWidth = function() {
  document.body.style.overflow = 'hidden'; 
  var width = document.body.clientWidth;
  document.body.style.overflow = 'scroll'; 
  width -= document.body.clientWidth; 
  if(!width) width = document.body.offsetWidth - document.body.clientWidth;
  document.body.style.overflow = ''; 
  return width; 
}

Answer 3

Here is a snippet from the author of the JQuery Dimension plugin.

http://github.com/brandonaaron/jquery-getscrollbarwidth/blob/master/jquery.getscrollbarwidth.js

maybe late to give this solution, but it seems a better one to me, IMO.