HTML & javascript: scrolling an iframe

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After reading through tons of documentation about frame scrolling, I didn't manage to find proper documentation about javascript objects and properties that would actually work to scroll an iframe.

Finally, I found the missing information on a page about "scrolling an iframe with javascript" that contained a piece of information missing on all other sites I found:

document.getElementById("iframe_id").contentWindow.scrollTo(x,y);

Many other pages, tutorials, howtos, etc said it should simply be:

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document.getElementById("iframe_id").scrollTo(x,y);

or:

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document.iframe_id.scrollTo(x,y);

but that didn't work.

I'm using the code in FireFox v3.6.4