Window.scrollByLines()

Non-standard
This feature is non-standard and is not on a standards track. Do not use it on production sites facing the Web: it will not work for every user. There may also be large incompatibilities between implementations and the behavior may change in the future.

Summary

Scrolls the document by the given number of lines.

Syntax

JavaScript
window.scrollByLines(<var>lines</var>)

Parameters

  • lines is the number of lines to scroll the document by.
  • lines may be a positive or negative integer.

Example

HTML
<!-- scroll down the document by 5 lines. -->
<button onclick="scrollByLines(5);">down 5 lines</button>
HTML
<!-- scroll up the document by 5 lines. -->
<button onclick="scrollByLines(-5);">up 5 lines</button>

Specification

This is not part of any specification

See also

License

© 2016 Mozilla Contributors
Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License v2.5 or later.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-us/docs/web/api/window/scrollbylines

API DOM DOM_0 Method Non-standard Window