Scroll back to the top of scrollable div

html, javascript, scroll

Solution

var myDiv = document.getElementById('containerDiv');
myDiv.innerHTML = variableLongText;
myDiv.scrollTop = 0;

See the `scrollTop` attribute.

Problem

``` <div id="containerDiv"></div> ``` ``` #containerDiv { position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 400px; height: 100%; padding: 5px; font-size: .875em; overflow-y: scroll; } ``` ``` document.getElementById("containerDiv").innerHTML = variableLongText; ``` How to reset the scroll position back to top of container div the next time?

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