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detect if a scroll bar is present or not

Hi

Is it possible to find out if a document have the scrollbars (horizontal, vertical or both) currently displayed (visable)?

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<script>
funtion findScrollBar(){
if (the scrollbars are currently being displayed){
alert ('scrollbars are visable');
}
else {
alert ('no scrollbars visable');
}
}
</script>

must not work in NS4

Hope someone can help!

Kind regards
Joergen
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An IE only hack will do it, by test to see if the scrollbar exists by trying to reposition it:

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
hello
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
    document.body.scrollTop+=10;
    if (document.body.scrollTop==0) alert('no vertical scroll bar');
    document.body.scrollLeft+=10;
    if (document.body.scrollLeft==0) alert('no horizontal scroll bar');

//-->
</script>
</body>
</html>


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Dear Experts

Thank you for your solutions - which both works fine!
I give the points to b1xml2 - not for the reason that COBOLdinosaur's answer isn't good, it also works fine - because that script will not perform a short scrolling of the page to determine if the scroll bars are present or not.

Kind regards
Joergen