This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
Returns the scrollbars object.
This is one of a group of Window properties that contain a boolean visible property, that used to represent whether or not a particular part of a web browser's user interface was visible.
For privacy and interoperability reasons, the value of the visible property is now false if this Window is a popup, and true otherwise.
An object containing a single property:
visible Read onlyA boolean property, false if this Window is a popup, and true otherwise.
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # dom-window-scrollbars-dev> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
scrollbars |
1 | 12 | 1 | ≤12.1 | 3 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 1 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/scrollbars