The scrollTop(val) method is used to set the scroll top offset to the passed value on all matching elements.
scrollTop( val ) - syntax
selector.scrollTop( val )
Here is the description of all parameters used by this method −
val - A positive number representing the desired scroll top offset.
scrollTop( val ) - example
Following is a simple example that simply illustrates the usage of this method −
<html> <head> <title>The jQuery Example</title> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.min.js"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"> $(document).ready(function(){ $("div.demo").scrollTop(300); }); </script> <style> div.demo { background:#CCCCCC none repeat scroll 0 0; border:3px solid #666666; margin:5px; padding:5px; position:relative; width:200px; height:100px; overflow:auto;} p { margin:10px; padding:5px; border:2px solid #666; width:1000px; height:1000px;} </style> </head> <body> <div class="demo"><p>Hello</p></div> </body> </html>
This will produce the following output -