Scroll to bottom of Div on page load (jQuery)

Question

I have a div on my page:

<div id='div1' style='overflow:scroll;overflow-x:hidden;max-height:200px;'></div> 

How can I make the div scroll to the bottom of the div?? Not the page, just the DIV.

Answer 1

The other solutions here don't actually work for divs with lots of content -- it "maxes out" scrolling down to the height of the div (instead of the height of the content of the div). So they'll work, unless you have more than double the div's height in content inside of it.

Here is the correct version:

$('#div1').scrollTop($('#div1')[0].scrollHeight); 

or jQuery 1.6+ version:

var d = $('#div1'); d.scrollTop(d.prop("scrollHeight")); 

Or animated:

$("#div1").animate({ scrollTop: $('#div1').prop("scrollHeight")}, 1000); 

Answer 2

All the answers that I can see here, including the currently "accepted" one, is actually wrong in that they set:

scrollTop = scrollHeight 

Whereas the correct approach is to set:

scrollTop = scrollHeight - clientHeight 

In other words:

$('#div1').scrollTop($('#div1')[0].scrollHeight - $('#div1')[0].clientHeight); 

Or animated:

$("#div1").animate({   scrollTop: $('#div1')[0].scrollHeight - $('#div1')[0].clientHeight }, 1000);