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grimmus
grimmus

Reputation: 513

Copy scrollTop value from textarea to div

I have a div and a textarea inside a parent div. I am trying to copy the scrollTop value of the textarea to the div so it moves in sync with the textarea scrolling.

The problem seems to be when i add text into the textarea and then press enter for a new line, the div scrollTop value doesn't seem to update but the textarea scrollTop value does.

If i press enter again both values update but it seems the div scrollTop value is one step behind the textarea

https://codesandbox.io/s/objective-feather-ngq8t

handleScroll = (e) => {
   setTextareaScrollTop(e.target.scrollTop);
   e.target.previousElementSibling.scrollTop = e.target.scrollTop;
   setDivScrollTop(e.target.previousElementSibling.scrollTop);
};

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Upvotes: 2

Views: 126

Answers (2)

testing_22
testing_22

Reputation: 2585

One simple workaround is to remove the setDivScrollTop from the handleScroll and add a new line \n after setting the red div's text. Note that this character acts like a caret and allows it to follow the other div.

handleScroll = (e) => {
    setTextareaScrollTop(e.target.scrollTop);
    e.target.previousElementSibling.scrollTop = e.target.scrollTop;
    // setDivScrollTop(e.target.scrollTop);
};

handleInput = (e) => {
    console.log(divScrollTop, textareaScrollTop)
    setText(e.target.value + "\n"); // add "\n"
};

As seen here, Codesandbox

Also I've added border style to the text area element and spellCheck={false} to make it possible to see they're equal.

Upvotes: 1

windmaomao
windmaomao

Reputation: 7680

I made some mod to your code, https://codesandbox.io/s/empty-voice-7w3ze

const useUpdate = () => {
  const [, dispatch] = useState(0);
  const ref = useRef(() => {
    dispatch((v) => v + 1);
  });

  return ref.current;
};

And when you need to repaint, just do

  handleScroll = (e) => {
    e.target.previousElementSibling.scrollTop = e.target.scrollTop;
    refresh();
  };

I didn't answer your question exactly according to what you want, but i noticed, there's no role the setState plays, so i removed both of them and replaced with a useUpdate. Let me know what you think on this approach.

If i remove both setState you had earlier, i do see the issue you described.

Upvotes: 1

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