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Asked: 2026-05-20T03:37:58+00:00

I have a few panels that I slide horizontally using the animate function that

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I have a few panels that I slide horizontally using the animate function that jQuery so generously provides.

The problem is that 100% of the clients that will be using this small app I am making use IE6. I am worried that because the panels contain a few elements on them, not too many but not few it will be very slow on IE6 and the rather poor-ish PCs that will be seeing this.

Now the question, should I animate scrollLeft to scroll the parent div or should I reposition the child div animating css left attribute?

Is there any performance gain by chosing one over the other? (I cannot test on the target PCs at the time being to be able to make an empirical decision.)

Thank you.

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  1. Editorial Team

    From my experience, animating scrollLeft gives better performance because most browsers do not redraw the entire window when scrolling (otherwise scrolling down a page would be ridiculously laggy for the slower computers…), while animating the left css property would cause the browser to redraw.

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