HTML DOM Element scrollWidth

Get the height and width of an element, including padding:

const element = document.getElementById("content");
let x = element.scrollHeight;
let y = element.scrollWidth;

How padding, border, and scrollbar affects the scrollWidth and scrollHeight:

const element = document.getElementById("content");
let x = element.scrollHeight;
let y = element.scrollWidth;

More examples below.

Description

The scrollWidth property returns the width of an element, including padding, excluding borders, scrollbars or margins.

The scrollWidth property returns the width in pixels.

The scrollWidth property is read-only.

Both scrollWidth and scrollHeight return the entire height and width of an element, including what is not viewable (because of overflow).

element.scrollWidth

Type	Description
Number	The width of the element, in pixels.

Set the height and width of an element to the values returned from scrollHeight and scrollWidth:

element.style.height = element.scrollHeight + "px";
element.style.width = element.scrollWidth + "px";

element.scrollWidth is supported in all browsers:


Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Safari	Opera	IE
Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes