[javascript] Use jQuery to scroll to the bottom of a div with lots of text

I have a div with a scrollbar on the right when there is a lot of text in it. I tried to use this code to scroll to the bottom of a div when the page loads, but I am not having much luck. How can it be achieved?

Style:

div.messageScrollArea{
    width: 100%;
    max-height: 300px;
    overflow: auto;
}

JavaScript code:

$(document).ready(function () {
    var objDiv = $('.messageScrollArea');
    if (objDiv.length > 0){
        objDiv[0].scrollTop = objDiv[0].scrollHeight;
    }
});

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//note: use of stop function to prevent animation build-ups if called repeatedly
//subtracting container height brings scrollTo position to container bottom
scrollUp = function() {
    $("#scroller").stop().animate({ scrollTop: 0 }, "slow");
}

scrollDown = function() {
    var scroller = $('#scroller');
    var height = scroller[0].scrollHeight - $(scroller).height();

    $(scroller).stop().animate({ scrollTop: height }, "slow");
}

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  var wtf    = $('#scroll');_x000D_
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  wtf.scrollTop(height);_x000D_
});
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 #scroll {_x000D_
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   height: 300px;_x000D_
   overflow-y: scroll;_x000D_
 }
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<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>_x000D_
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Make a jQuery function more flexible.

$.fn.scrollDown=function(){
    let el=$(this)
    el.scrollTop(el[0].scrollHeight)
}

$('div').scrollDown()

https://jsfiddle.net/Thielicious/82ar7db2/


No need to calculate the actual height of the contents; you can just scroll down a lot:

$(function () {
  $('.messageScrollArea').scrollTop(1E10);
});

Scrolling with animation:

Your DIV:

<div class='messageScrollArea' style='height: 100px;overflow: auto;'>
      Hello World! Hello World! Hello World! Hello World! Hello World! Hello
      Hello World! Hello World! Hello World! Hello World! Hello World! Hello
      Hello World! Hello World! Hello World! Hello World! Hello World! Hello
</div>

jQuery part:

jQuery(document).ready(function(){       
    var $t = $('.messageScrollArea');
    $t.animate({"scrollTop": $('.messageScrollArea')[0].scrollHeight}, "slow");
});

?http://jsfiddle.net/3Wx3U/


jQuery simple solution, one line, no external lib required :

$("#myDivID").animate({ scrollTop: $('#myDivID')[0].scrollHeight }, 1000);

Change 1000 to another value (this is the duration of the animation).


Here's one sample: http://jsfiddle.net/CUUfb/1/