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Error: “Cannot read property ‘top’ of undefined” while creating scroll

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In theory like this

var destination = jQuery ("# ​​job"). offset (). top;
if (jQuery.browser.safari) {
  jQuery ('body'). animate ({scrollTop: destination}, 1100); // 1100 - scrolling speed
} else {
  jQuery ('html'). animate ({scrollTop: destination}, 1100);
}
return false;

Should work, but nothing will scroll. jQuery is included. Writes,

Cannot read property ‘top’ of undefined


Question from answer @ Alexey Dementyev .


Answer 1, authority 100%

In this case, jQuery ("# ​​job"). offset () – returns undefined , which is only possible if jQuery ("# ​​job ") did not find any elements that match the selector.

In addition, depending on the version of jQuery, when using this method, null may also be returned, hence the error may change to

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property ‘top’ of null (…)


Answer 2

Try to call the function inside $ (document) .ready (), the element may not have loaded yet

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