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Get Scrollbar width
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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