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#10101 closed bug (invalid)

Opened August 19, 2011 11:34PM UTC

Closed September 04, 2011 08:01AM UTC

Last modified January 24, 2014 10:08PM UTC

scrollTop in iFrame always returns 0

Reported by: anonymous Owned by: anonymous
Priority: undecided Milestone: None
Component: offset Version: 1.6
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked by: Blocking:
Description

Using $(window).scrollTop() in iFrame always returns 0.

To reproduce, load an iFrame from a secondary page. In the iFrame page, specify a scroll event that uses $(window).scrollTop().

You'll notice it always returns 0.

Using document.documentElement.scrollTop or document.body.scrollTop returns the correct value.

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Changed August 19, 2011 11:35PM UTC by anonymous comment:1

I forgot to specify that this problem only occurs in IE.

Changed August 20, 2011 02:16PM UTC by rwaldron comment:2

component: unfiledoffset
owner: → anonymous
status: newpending

Try this:

$("body").scrollTop()

Changed September 04, 2011 08:01AM UTC by trac-o-bot comment:3

resolution: → invalid
status: pendingclosed

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Changed July 10, 2012 09:21PM UTC by amazingant comment:4

I can confirm this still happens with jQuery 1.7.2 with IE 8, and using $("body").scrollTop() also provides a zero regardless of actual scroll position.

Changed July 10, 2012 09:52PM UTC by dmethvin comment:5

Why is it that nobody can produce a test case?

http://jsfiddle.net/eDJYm/

jsFiddle runs its test in an iframe.

worksforme in IE8, so please provide one that doesn't.

Changed July 18, 2012 05:21PM UTC by amazingant comment:6

At the time, I didn't produce a test case because I was busy fixing the issue and moving on to the rest of my work. At this point, partly because some other change I made to my HTML appears to have fixed it with $(window).scrollTop(), although $("body").scrollTop() remains an issue, and partly because jsfiddle doesn't like it when I try to put frames inside of its frames, making it difficult to reproduce the problem there.

As far as with $("body").scrollTop(), I posted an example as a gist on GitHub here:

https://gist.github.com/3137546

This gives me correct values for $("body").scrollTop() in Chrome 20.0 and Safari 5.1.7, zero in IE 8; I don't have access to firefox at the moment. If I can figure out how I had the issue with $(window).scrollTop(), I'll post a second gist for it.

Changed January 24, 2014 10:05PM UTC by anonymous comment:7

I'm seeing this problem in Chrome 32.0.1700.77 on Mac OSX. The suggested solution [$("body").scrollTop()] also yields zero.

Changed January 24, 2014 10:08PM UTC by anonymous comment:8

Please disregard this. I forgot that we are using an old version of jQuery (viz., v. 1.7.2).