VisualViewport: scroll event

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since August 2021.

The scroll event of the VisualViewport interface is fired when the visual viewport is scrolled. This allows you to position elements relative to the visual viewport as it is scrolled, which would normally be anchored to the layout viewport.

Syntax

Use the event name in methods like addEventListener(), or set an event handler property.

js
addEventListener("scroll", (event) => { })
onscroll = (event) => { }

Event type

A generic Event.

Examples

See the Visual Viewport API landing page for a usage demo.

Specifications

Specification
CSSOM View Module
# eventdef-document-scroll

Browser compatibility