scrollparent

What is scrollparent?

The scrollparent npm package is a utility that helps you find the scrollable parent of a given DOM element. This can be useful in various scenarios where you need to determine the element responsible for scrolling, such as custom scroll handling, sticky elements, or infinite scrolling implementations.

What are scrollparent's main functionalities?

Find Scroll Parent

This feature allows you to find the scrollable parent of a given DOM element. The code sample demonstrates how to use the scrollparent package to find and log the scrollable parent of an element with the ID 'myElement'.

const scrollParent = require('scrollparent');
const element = document.getElementById('myElement');
const parent = scrollParent(element);
console.log(parent);

Other packages similar to scrollparent

scroll-into-view-if-needed

The scroll-into-view-if-needed package not only helps in finding the scrollable parent but also provides functionality to scroll an element into view if it is not already visible. This package offers more comprehensive features for handling scroll behavior compared to scrollparent.

README

scrollparent

A function to get the scrolling parent of a html element.

Install

npm install scrollparent --save

Example

var Scrollparent = require("scrollparent");

Scrollparent(document.getElementById("content")) // HTMLHtmlElement or HTMLBodyElement as appropriate

var Scrollparent = require("scrollparent");

Scrollparent(document.getElementById("inside-a-scrolling-div")) // HTMLDivElement

Note about the root scrolling element

Internally, the root scrolling element is determined in this library as the result of

document.scrollingElement || document.documentElement;

This should give a usable result in most browsers today but if you want to ensure full support you should use a document.scrollingElement polyfill such as this one.

Contributors

License

MIT