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.

The Window.scrollByLines() method scrolls the document by the specified number of lines.

Syntax

window.scrollByLines(lines)

Parameters

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

Example

<!-- Scroll up the document by 5 lines -->
<button id="scroll-up" onclick="scrollByLines(-5);">Up 5 lines</button>

<!-- Scroll down the document by 5 lines -->
<button id="scroll-down" onclick="scrollByLines(5);">Down 5 lines</button>

Specifications

This is not part of any specification.

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Internet Explorer Opera Safari WebView Android Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet
scrollByLines
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1
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4
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See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/scrollByLines