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Document.scrollingElement

Category

DOM

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 44)

Intent stage

None

Summary

Simple API to indicate whether 'body' or 'documentElement' is used for scrolling. Used to ease transition to spec-compliant scrolling behavior.

Standards & signals

• Specification: http://dev.w3.org/csswg/cssom-view/#dom-document-scrollingelement
• Firefox: Positive
• Safari: In development
• Web developers: Positive
• Tracking bug: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=475531

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/document/scrollingElement https://dev.opera.com/articles/fixing-the-scrolltop-bug/

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