[PLUG] Controlling the scrollbars of a browser?

Brent Rieck bsr at spek.org
Thu Oct 2 23:39:01 UTC 2003


Matt Alexander wrote:
> Any ideas?  I'm not too concerned about which language would be needed to
> accomplish this, as long as it can work in a web browser.  I've been using
> ImageMagick to dynamically crop the image to the location I want and then
> display that new image, but that's painfully slow, especially if the user
> wants to move through the menu items at any reasonable speed.

Javascript:

window.scrollTo() - for horizontal scrolling
window.scrollBy() - for vertical

I don't have a list of browsers that'll work in, but I believe the last 
few version of IE and Mozilla/Netscape support it, though probably not 
in IE for the Mac (because it IE for the Mac sucks).

--Brent





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