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>
Specification
This is not part of any specification.
Browser compatibility
The compatibility table in this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
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scrollByLines | Chrome No support No | Edge No support No | Firefox Full support Yes | IE ? | Opera ? | Safari No support No | WebView Android No support No | Chrome Android No support No | Firefox Android Full support Yes | Opera Android ? | Safari iOS No support No | Samsung Internet Android No support No |
Legend
- Full support
- Full support
- No support
- No support
- Compatibility unknown
- Compatibility unknown
- Non-standard. Expect poor cross-browser support.
- Non-standard. Expect poor cross-browser support.