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Get Scrollbar width
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function getScrollbarWidth() { | |
// Creating invisible container | |
const outer = document.createElement('div'); | |
outer.style.visibility = 'hidden'; | |
outer.style.overflow = 'scroll'; // forcing scrollbar to appear | |
outer.style.msOverflowStyle = 'scrollbar'; // needed for WinJS apps | |
document.body.appendChild(outer); | |
// Creating inner element and placing it in the container | |
const inner = document.createElement('div'); | |
outer.appendChild(inner); | |
// Calculating difference between container's full width and the child width | |
const scrollbarWidth = outer.offsetWidth - inner.offsetWidth; | |
// Removing temporary elements from the DOM | |
outer.parentNode.removeChild(outer); | |
return scrollbarWidth; | |
} |
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Credit: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13382516/getting-scroll-bar-width-using-javascript