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Asked: 2026-05-27T15:05:45+00:00

Am I doing something wrong? It looks like this only works in IE, though

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Am I doing something wrong? It looks like this only works in IE, though I can’t see what I’m expecting that others can’t handle.

<div id="test" style="height:4em;overflow:scroll;">
one<br />two<br />three<br />four<br />five<br />six<br />seven<br />eight<br />nine<br />ten<br />
<b id="item1">I should come into view!</b>
</div>
<script><!--
document.getElementById("item1").offsetParent.scrollTop=1000;
//--></script>

(please don’t answer why don’t you use “test”, because this is a simplified example to demonstrate I have an issue using offsetParent)

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  1. Editorial Team

    Just reading the documentation on offsetParent and looking at what happens in Chrome and Firefox, it’s pretty clear that offsetParent is being set to the <body> element and your div with id="test" is not positioned.

    If you add position: relative to your container div, it will pick up that as the offsetParent and work properly. I don’t know if this the fix you are looking for, but it works.

    The alternative, of course, is using .parentElement instead of offsetParent, depending on your use-case.

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