scrollIntoView with margin

Question

I have a webpage on which I would like to scroll to a certain element.

That part works fine by using scrollIntoView; but I would like to add a bit of space

Answer 1

Another potential solution is to scroll not the the element itself, but to one of its previous siblings. Example:

let elementToScrollTo = ;
const childOffset = 3;
for (let i = 0; i < childOffset; i++) {
    if (!elementToScrollTo.previousElementSibling) {
       break;
    }
    elementToScrollTo = elementToScrollTo.previousElementSibling;
}
elementToScrollTo.scrollIntoView();