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Coudn't scroll to end of the page using window.scrollTo

I am not able to scroll all the way until end. Following code stop working near the end of page.
I have used following methods to scroll programmatically,
// 1 still see scrolling left
window.scrollTo(x,y) > window.scrollTo(window.scrollWidth,0)
window.scrollBy(x,y) >
// 2
scrollingElement.scrollLeft = scrollingElement.scrollWidth - document.documentElement.clientWidth;
Info:
Some width related info for my case,
window.scrollWidth > 6180
scrollingElement.scrollWidth > 6183
document.documentElement.clientWidth > 412
Note: I have used webkitColumnGap css and turned vertical page into horizontal. That's why I have bigger scrollWidth.
If I use following (full scroll) I still see, there is some scrolling left and I can use mouse to scroll that part,
window.scrollTo(window.scrollWidth,0) // go to end
scrollingElement.scrollLeft = <full width> // go to end
// log scroll position for inpection ~ this number does not match the full width
window.scrollX ~ 4k
(window.pageXOffset || doc.scrollLeft) - (doc.clientLeft || 0) ~ 4k
I have run out of ideas so would need help from you guys to find out the issue.
Browser details:
I am using flutter Webview in android device.
Edit:
After lot of trial and error adding following css fixed the issue, I don't why this fixed it?
body {
overflow: hidden !important;
}
Thanks.

You want to scroll to the bottom?
Try this:
var height = document.body.scrollHeight
window.scroll(0, height)
Hope i understood your question correctly

After lot of trial and error adding following css fixed the issue, I don't why this fixed it?
body {
overflow: hidden !important;
}
This means that some of your children elements bled out of its parent container. overflow: hidden tells the browser to cut out the parts that are not fitting inside the body container. That also means that this issue can be solved by changing the size or positioning of the body's children, and that would probably be a better approach to fixing the issue.
By default, overflow is set to visible, and therefore the browser allows you to see (and to scroll) outside of the containing box (overflow property explained)
The !important part tells the browser to artificially increase the specificity of this rule. For more details on specificity: css-tricks/sprecificity

CSS "position:fixed": mobile zoom

I'm trying to solve an issue with css "position:fixed" property on mobile browsers. I have a fixed div:
<div id="logo">
...other content here...
</div>
with css:
#logo{
position: fixed;
-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden;
bottom: 100px;
right: 0px;
width: 32px;
height: 32px;
}
So, usually the behaviour is exactly the desired one, with the div position always on the bottom right of the window, indipendently of the scroll position.
My issue is that on mobile browsers, when the users zoom the page, after a certain zoom level the div position is wrong (sometimes the div disappear out of the window).
I know that fixed position is not well supported on mobile browsers, but I wonder if there is some workaround. I tried with this js code onScroll event:
window.addEventListener('scroll', function(e){
drag.style['-webkit-transform'] = 'scale(' +window.innerWidth/document.documentElement.clientWidth + ')';\\I want to avoid zoom on this element
var r = logo.getBoundingClientRect();
var w = window.innerWidth;
var h = window.innerHeight;
if(r.right != w){
rOff = r.right - w;
logo.style.right = rOff;
}
if(r.top+132 != h){\
tOff = r.top + 132 - h;
logo.style.bottom = tOff;
}
});
Unfortunately, the code seems to return the wrong position.
Does anyone have any tip?

Ok, that's how I solved the issue...I hope that could help anyone to simulate fixed position on iOS devices.
I switched the position from fixed to absolute;
Attach to window a listener to get the new position when the page is scrolled or zoomed,
setting window.onscroll and window.onresize events with the following function:
function position() {
drag.style.left = window.innerWidth + window.pageXOffset - 32 + 'px';
drag.style.top = window.innerHeight + window.pageYOffset - 132 + 'px';
}

Do you want to catch if zoom is active?
There's no window.onZoom listener, but you can read this thread:
Catch browser's "zoom" event in JavaScript
and this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/995967/3616853
There's no way to actively detect if there's a zoom. I found a good entry here on how you can attempt to implement it.
I’ve found two ways of detecting the zoom level. One way to detect zoom level changes relies on the fact that percentage values are not zoomed. A percentage value is relative to the viewport width, and thus unaffected by page zoom. If you insert two elements, one with a position in percentages, and one with the same position in pixels, they’ll move apart when the page is zoomed. Find the ratio between the positions of both elements and you’ve got the zoom level. See test case. http://web.archive.org/web/20080723161031/http://novemberborn.net/javascript/page-zoom-ff3
You could also do it using the tools of the above post. The problem is you're more or less making educated guesses on whether or not the page has zoomed. This will work better in some browsers than other.
There's no way to tell if the page is zoomed if they load your page while zoomed.

Just a theory, but you may want to try setting the bottom/right positions in % rather than px.
I think what you're seeing when using pixel measurements is just the zoom effecting the pixels. Or to put it better, when you zoom-in the pixels appear larger and that throws off the position of the element, even pushing it out of the view-port on smaller screens.
Example using pixel positioning
Notice that even on a desktop as you zoom-in and out the element appears to move up and down?
Example using percent positioning
In this example the element appears to stay in the bottom right corner, because it is always positioned at 10% from the bottom of the view-port.
#logo{
position: fixed;
-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden;
bottom:10%;
right: 0;
width: 32px;
height: 32px;
}

Having two different z-index for the logo and the rest of the page could help. Allowing zooming only to the rest of the page and not to the z-index layer where logo is included. So, this might not affect the stretching on the logo.
We can
Implement a ZOOM listener
Attach it to browser
Make the zoom listener change the zoom level of the element (modify the elements position) using z-index as a factor.

Overflow: hidden but i still want to have the empty scrollbar

I set 'overflow:hidden' on my html body with Javascript when I press a button. But when I do that the whole body moves 5 pixels or so to the left because the space of the scrollbar is gone. How do i prevent that.
I can't set margin of the body to a specific size because the width of scrollbars differentiate between browsers

Since the previous solution does not work anymore (see original answer below), I've come across another solution which works for me and, according to MDN, it should work in all browser, with IE starting from version 6.
This solution to get the scrollbar width is even a bit simplified:
Append a div without a scrollbar to the body and position it off screen
Measure the client width of the div
Set the div to have a scrollbar (using css overflow style)
Measure the clientWidth of the div again
Remove the div
Return the difference of the two widths
And the code would look like this:
function scrollbarWidth() {
var div = $('<div style="width:50px;height:50px;overflow:hidden;position:absolute;top:-200px;left:-200px;"></div>');
// Append our div, do our calculation and then remove it
$('body').append(div);
var w1 = div.prop('clientWidth');
div.css('overflow-y', 'scroll');
var w2 = div.prop('clientWidth');
$(div).remove();
return (w1 - w2);
}
And here is a working jsFiddle.
Original answer (for completeness sake)
Here is a solution to calculate the width of a scrollbar, which you can use in conjuction with some of the other answers here (and your own knowledge as far as I can tell).
The idea is to do the following steps:
Append two divs to the body and position them off screen
Measure the width of the inner div
Set the outer div to overflow
Measure the width of the inner div (again)
Remove the divs
Return the difference of the two widths
And here is the code, copied from the referenced page:
function scrollbarWidth() {
var div = $('<div style="width:50px;height:50px;overflow:hidden;position:absolute;top:-200px;left:-200px;"><div style="height:100px;"></div>');
// Append our div, do our calculation and then remove it
$('body').append(div);
var w1 = $('div', div).innerWidth();
div.css('overflow-y', 'scroll');
var w2 = $('div', div).innerWidth();
$(div).remove();
return (w1 - w2);
}

You could try this old trick:
html {
overflow-y: scroll;
}
What this does is force the scrollbar to always be visible.
Compare:
normal JSFiddle
JSFiddle with the vertical scrollbar always there

Here is code to add a disabled vertical scroll bar. If placed more prominent in CSS than the rest of the CSS, it should override whatever you've done to other portions.
html {
overflow-y: scroll;
}

You could always put a wrapper around the content that you are hiding and then place the overflow: scroll on div and overflow: hidden on the content div.
#wrapper { overflow-y: scroll; }
#content { overflow: hidden; }
See the attached fiddle for a working version
http://jsfiddle.net/15km/bfpAD/1/

Using Javascript to resize a div to screen height causes flickering when shrinking the browser window

The Background:
I tried to solve the StackOverflow question yet another HTML/CSS layout challenge - full height sidebar with sticky footer on my own using jQuery. Because the sidebar in my case may be longer than the main content it matches the case of comment 8128008. That makes it impossible to have a sidebar longer than the main content and having a sticky footer without getting problems when shrinking the browser window.
The status quo:
I have a html page with a div, which is automatically stretched to fill the screen. So if there is empty space below the element, I stretch it downwards:
But if the browser viewport is smaller than the div itself, no stretching is done but the scrollbar shows up:
I've attached jQuery to the window's resize event to resize the div, if the browser window is not to small and remove any resizing in the other case. This is done by checking if the viewport is higher or smaller than the document. If the viewport is smaller than the document, it seems like the content is larger than the browser window, why no resizing is done; in the other case we resize the div to fill the page.
if ($(document).height() > $(window).height()) {
// Scrolling needed, page content extends browser window
// --> No need to resize the div
// --> Custom height is removed
// [...]
} else {
// Window is larger than the page content
// --> Div is resized using jQuery:
$('#div').height($(window).height());
}
The Problem:
Up to now, everything runs well. But if I shrink the browser window, there are cases, where the div should be resized but the document is larger than the window's height, why my script assumes, that no resizing is needed and the div's resizing is removed.
The point is actually, that if I check the document's height using Firebug after the bug appeared, the height has just the value is was meant to have. So I thought, the document's height is set with a little delay. I tried to run the resize code delayed a bit but it did not help.
I have set up a demonstration on jsFiddle. Just shrink the browser window slowly and you'll see the div "flickering". Also you can watch the console.log() output and you will notice, that in the case of "flickering" the document's height and the window's height are different instead of being equal.
I've noticed this behavior in Firefox 7, IE 9, Chrome 10 and Safari 5.1. Can you confirm it?
Do you know if there is a fix? Or is the approach totally wrong? Please help me.

Ok -- wiping my old answer and replacing...
Here's your problem:
You are taking and comparing window and document height, without first taking into consideration the order of events here..
Window loads
Div grows to window height
Window shrinks
Document height remains at div height
Window height is less than div height
At this point, the previously set height of the div is keeping document height greater than the window height, and this logic is misinterpreted:
"Scrolling needed, no need to extend the sidebar" fires, erroneously
Hence the twitch.
To prevent it, just resize your div along with the window before making the comparison:
(function () {
var resizeContentWrapper = function () {
console.group('resizing');
var target = {
content: $('#resizeme')
};
//resize target content to window size, assuming that last time around it was set to document height, and might be pushing document height beyond window after resize
//TODO: for performance, insert flags to only do this if the window is shrinking, and the div has already been resized
target.content.css('height', $(window).height());
var height = {
document: $(document).height(),
window: $(window).height()
};
console.log('height: ', height);
if (height.document > height.window) {
// Scrolling needed, no need to externd the sidebar
target.content.css('height', '');
console.info('custom height removed');
} else {
// Set the new content height
height['content'] = height.window;
target.content.css('height', height['content']);
console.log('new height: ', height);
}
console.groupEnd();
}
resizeContentWrapper();
$(window).bind('resize orientationchange', resizeContentWrapper);
})(jQuery);
Per pmvdb's comment, i renamed your $$ to "target"

$(window).bind('resize',function(){
$("#resizeme").css("height","");
if($("#resizeme").outerHeight() < $(window).height()){
$("#resizeme").height($(window).height());
$("body").css("overflow-y","hidden");
}else{
$("body").css("overflow-y","scroll");
}
});

Maybe I am misunderstanding the problem, but why are you using Javascript? This seems like a layout (CSS) issue. My solution without JS: http://jsfiddle.net/2yKgQ/27/

Chrome Extension Scrollbar Placement

After dabbling in Chrome Extensions I've noticed that when the data inside the Page Action gets to a certain point the scroll bars automatically attach themselves to the popup, this I expect. However, instead of pushing the content to the left of the scroll bar it overlays the content causing a horizontal scrollbar to become active. I ended up just adding a check on my data and applying a css class to push the content to the left more to run parallel to the scroll bar and beside it not under it. What is the correct way to handle this besides my hackish solution?

I was wondering this myself too. Currently I just don't put anything important closer than 20px to the right side of a popup and disable horizontal scrollbars:
body {overflow-x:hidden;overflow-y:auto;}
So when a vertical scrollbar appears the content at least doesn't jump.

Perhaps you need to specify a width on the scrollbar.
::-webkit-scrollbar {
width: 42px; //Do not know actual width, but I assume you do
}

I haven't found a way to do this that isn't a hack, but here's the simplest hack I could think of:
<script type="text/javascript">
function tweakWidthForScrollbar() {
var db = document.body;
var scrollBarWidth = db.scrollHeight > db.clientHeight ?
db.clientWidth - db.offsetWidth : 0;
db.style.paddingRight = scrollBarWidth + "px";
}
</script>
...
<body onresize="tweakWidthForScrollbar()">
The idea is to detect whether the vertical scrollbar is in use, and if it is, calculate its width and allocate just enough extra padding for it.