Check if a user has scrolled to the bottom (not just the window, but any element)

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I'm making a pagination system (sort of like Facebook) where the content loads when the user scrolls to the bottom. I imagine the best way to do that is to find when the user is at the bottom of the page and run an Ajax query to load more posts.

The only problem is I don't know how to check if the user has scrolled to the bottom of the page. Any ideas?

I'm using jQuery, so feel free to provide answers that use it.

31 Answers

My solution in plain js:

let el=document.getElementById('el');
el.addEventListener('scroll', function(e) {
    if (this.scrollHeight - this.scrollTop - this.clientHeight<=0) {
        alert('Bottom');
    }
});
#el{
  width:400px;
  height:100px;
  overflow-y:scroll;
}
<div id="el">
<div>content</div>
<div>content</div>
<div>content</div>
<div>content</div>
<div>content</div>
<div>content</div>
<div>content</div>
<div>content</div>
<div>content</div>
<div>content</div>
<div>content</div>
</div>

Instead of listening to the scroll event, using Intersection Observer is the inexpensive one for checking if the last element was visible on the viewport (that's mean user was scrolled to the bottom). It also supported for IE7 with the polyfill.

var observer = new IntersectionObserver(function(entries){
   if(entries[0].isIntersecting === true)
      console.log("Scrolled to the bottom");
   else
      console.log("Not on the bottom");
}, {
   root:document.querySelector('#scrollContainer'),
   threshold:1 // Trigger only when whole element was visible
});

observer.observe(document.querySelector('#scrollContainer').lastElementChild);
#scrollContainer{
  height: 100px;
  overflow: hidden scroll;
}
<div id="scrollContainer">
  <div>Item 1</div>
  <div>Item 2</div>
  <div>Item 3</div>
  <div>Item 4</div>
  <div>Item 5</div>
  <div>Item 6</div>
  <div>Item 7</div>
  <div>Item 8</div>
  <div>Item 9</div>
  <div>Item 10</div>
</div>

In case someone wants a vanilla JavaScript solution and needs to detect when a user has scrolled to the bottom of a <div> I managed to implement it by using these lines of code

window.addEventListener("scroll", () => {
    var offset = element.getBoundingClientRect().top - element.offsetParent.getBoundingClientRect().top;
    const top = window.pageYOffset + window.innerHeight - offset;

    if (top === element.scrollHeight) {
        console.log("bottom");
    }
}, { passive: false });

I Have done this very easy way with pure JS.

function onScroll() {    
    if (window.pageYOffset + window.innerHeight >= document.documentElement.scrollHeight - 50) {
        Console.log('Reached bottom')
    }
}
window.addEventListener("scroll", onScroll);

All these solutions doesn't work for me on Firefox and Chrome, so I use custom functions from Miles O'Keefe and meder omuraliev like this:

function getDocHeight()
{
    var D = document;
    return Math.max(
        D.body.scrollHeight, D.documentElement.scrollHeight,
        D.body.offsetHeight, D.documentElement.offsetHeight,
        D.body.clientHeight, D.documentElement.clientHeight
    );
}

function getWindowSize()
{
  var myWidth = 0, myHeight = 0;
  if( typeof( window.innerWidth ) == 'number' ) {
    //Non-IE
    myWidth = window.innerWidth;
    myHeight = window.innerHeight;
  } else if( document.documentElement && ( document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.documentElement.clientHeight ) ) {
    //IE 6+ in 'standards compliant mode'
    myWidth = document.documentElement.clientWidth;
    myHeight = document.documentElement.clientHeight;
  } else if( document.body && ( document.body.clientWidth || document.body.clientHeight ) ) {
    //IE 4 compatible
    myWidth = document.body.clientWidth;
    myHeight = document.body.clientHeight;
  }
  return [myWidth, myHeight];
}

$(window).scroll(function()
{
    if($(window).scrollTop() + getWindowSize()[1] == getDocHeight())
    {
        alert("bottom!");
    }
});

You can try the following code,

$("#dashboard-scroll").scroll(function(){
    var ele = document.getElementById('dashboard-scroll');
    if(ele.scrollHeight - ele.scrollTop === ele.clientHeight){
       console.log('at the bottom of the scroll');
    }
});

Try this for match condition if scroll to bottom end

if ($(this)[0].scrollHeight - $(this).scrollTop() == 
    $(this).outerHeight()) {

    //code for your custom logic

}

This gives accurate results, when checking on a scrollable element (i.e. not window):

// `element` is a native JS HTMLElement
if ( element.scrollTop == (element.scrollHeight - element.offsetHeight) )
    // Element scrolled to bottom

offsetHeight should give the actual visible height of an element (including padding, margin, and scrollbars), and scrollHeight is the entire height of an element including invisible (overflowed) areas.

jQuery's .outerHeight() should give similar result to JS's .offsetHeight -- the documentation in MDN for offsetHeight is unclear about its cross-browser support. To cover more options, this is more complete:

var offsetHeight = ( container.offsetHeight ? container.offsetHeight : $(container).outerHeight() );
if  ( container.scrollTop == (container.scrollHeight - offsetHeight) ) {
   // scrolled to bottom
}

i used this test to detect the scroll reached the bottom: event.target.scrollTop === event.target.scrollHeight - event.target.offsetHeight

Here's my two cents as the accepted answer didn't work for me.

var documentAtBottom = (document.documentElement.scrollTop + window.innerHeight) >= document.documentElement.scrollHeight;

Google Chrome gives the full height of the page if you call $(window).height()

Instead, use window.innerHeight to retrieve the height of your window. Necessary check should be:

if($(window).scrollTop() + window.innerHeight > $(document).height() - 50) {
    console.log("reached bottom!");
}

Many other solutions doesn't work for me Because on scroll to bottom my div was triggering the alert 2 times and when moving up it was also trigerring upto a few pixels so The solution is:

        $('#your-div').on('resize scroll', function()
        {
            if ($(this).scrollTop() +
                $(this).innerHeight() >=
                $(this)[0].scrollHeight + 10) {

                alert('reached bottom!');
            }
        });

Safari can scroll past the bottom of the page which was causing a bug in our application. Solve this using >= instead of ===.

container.scrollTop >= container.scrollHeight - container.clientHeight

Here is the most simple way to do it:

const handleScroll = () => {
if (window.innerHeight + window.pageYOffset >= document.body.offsetHeight) {
   console.log('scrolled to the bottom')
}}

window.addEventListener('scroll', handleScroll)

(2021) Lots of answers here involve a ref to an element, but if you only care about the whole page, just use:

function isBottom() {
  const { scrollHeight, scrollTop, clientHeight } = document.documentElement;
  const distanceFromBottom = scrollHeight - scrollTop - clientHeight;
  return distanceFromBottom < 20; // adjust the number 20 yourself
}

Apparently what worked for me was 'body' and not 'window' like this:

$('body').scroll(function() {


 if($('body').scrollTop() + $('body').height() == $(document).height()) {
     //alert at buttom
 }
 });

for cross-browser compatibility use:

  function getheight(){
    var doc = document;
    return  Math.max(
        doc.body.scrollHeight, doc.documentElement.scrollHeight,
        doc.body.offsetHeight, doc.documentElement.offsetHeight,
        doc.body.clientHeight, doc.documentElement.clientHeight

        );
   }

and then instead of $(document).height() call the function getheight()

$('body').scroll(function() {


   if($('body').scrollTop() + $('body').height() == getheight()  ) {
     //alert at bottom
 }
});

for near bottom use:

$('body').scroll(function() {


if($('body').scrollTop() + $('body').height() > getheight() -100 ) {
    //alert near bottom
 }
 });
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