Scroll to bottom of div?

Question

I am creating a chat using Ajax requests and I\'m trying to get messages div to scroll to the bottom without much luck.

I am wrapping everything in this div:

Answer 1

This is much easier if you're using jQuery scrollTop:

$("#mydiv").scrollTop($("#mydiv")[0].scrollHeight);

Answer 2

small addendum: scrolls only, if last line is already visible. if scrolled a tiny bit, leaves the content where it is (attention: not tested with different font sizes. this may need some adjustments inside ">= comparison"):

var objDiv = document.getElementById(id);
var doScroll=objDiv.scrollTop>=(objDiv.scrollHeight-objDiv.clientHeight);                   

// add new content to div
$('#' + id ).append("new line at end<br>"); // this is jquery!

// doScroll is true, if we the bottom line is already visible
if( doScroll) objDiv.scrollTop = objDiv.scrollHeight;

Answer 3

You can use the Element.scrollTo() method.

It can be animated using the built-in browser/OS animation, so it's super smooth.

function scrollToBottom() {
    const scrollContainer = document.getElementById('container');
    scrollContainer.scrollTo({
        top: scrollContainer.scrollHeight,
        left: 0,
        behavior: 'smooth'
    });
}

// initialize dummy content
const scrollContainer = document.getElementById('container');
const numCards = 100;
let contentInnerHtml = '';
for (let i=0; i<numCards; i++) {
  contentInnerHtml += `<div class="card mb-2"><div class="card-body">Card ${i + 1}</div></div>`;
}
scrollContainer.innerHTML = contentInnerHtml;

.overflow-y-scroll {
  overflow-y: scroll;
}

<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@4.5.3/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>

<div class="d-flex flex-column vh-100">
  <div id="container" class="overflow-y-scroll flex-grow-1"></div>
  <div>
    <button class="btn btn-primary" onclick="scrollToBottom()">Scroll to bottom</button>
  </div>
</div>

Answer 4

If this is being done for scrolling to the bottom of chat window, do the following

The idea of scrolling to a particular div in the chat was the following

1) Each chat div consisting of Person, time and message is run in a for loop with class chatContentbox

2) querySelectorAll finds all such arrays. It could be 400 nodes (400 chats)

3) go to the last one

4) scrollIntoView()

let lastChatBox = document.querySelectorAll('.chatContentBox'); 
lastChatBox = lastChatBox[lastChatBox.length-1]; 
lastChatBox.scrollIntoView(); 

Answer 5

I use the difference between the Y coordinate of the first item div and the Y coordinate of the selected item div. Here is the JavaScript/JQuery code and the html:

function scrollTo(event){
        // In my proof of concept, I had a few <button>s with value 
        // attributes containing strings with id selector expressions
        // like "#item1".
        let selectItem = $($(event.target).attr('value'));
        let selectedDivTop = selectItem.offset().top;

        let scrollingDiv = selectItem.parent();

        let firstItem = scrollingDiv.children('div').first();
        let firstItemTop = firstItem.offset().top;

        let newScrollValue = selectedDivTop - firstItemTop;
        scrollingDiv.scrollTop(newScrollValue);
    }

<div id="scrolling" style="height: 2rem; overflow-y: scroll">
  <div id="item1">One</div>
  <div id="item2">Two</div>
  <div id="item3">Three</div>
  <div id="item4">Four</div>
  <div id="item5">Five</div>
</div>

Answer 6

Set the distance from the top of the scrollable element to be the total height of the element.

const element = this.shadowRoot.getElementById('my-scrollable-div')
element.scrollTop = element.scrollHeight