scrollTop and doctype

Question

I'm looking for at solution to make document.body.scrollTop return the right values when using a doctype

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

now this only works with chrome and not in ff and ie

alert('scrollTop = '+document.body.scrollTop);

possible duplicate of [document.body.scrollTop is always 0 in IE even when scrolling](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2717252/document-body-scrolltop-is-always-0-in-ie-even-when-scrolling) — Caspar Kleijne, Apr 24 '11 at 07:00

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 24 '11 at 20:29

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I think these are the two alternatives:

var scrollTop = document.body.scrollTop || document.documentElement.scrollTop;

answered Apr 24 '11 at 20:29

Halcyon

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