Prevent Div From Scrolling To Top When Inner Div Is Given Focus - Ie 11

I have an outer div with style.overflow set to auto. It contains a larger child div which causes the outer div to become scrollable. When the outer div is scrolled to the bottom, g

Solution 1:

I was able to work around this by pre-setting the scrollTop to 0, and then moving the margin so it remains in the same location. Finally you can undo all of this insanity.

Here's your modified example: https://jsfiddle.net/2n1f25nk/1/

document.getElementById('div1').onclick = function() {
  var div1 = document.getElementById('div1');
  var div2 = document.getElementById('div2');
  var scrollTop = div1.scrollTop;
  div2.style.marginTop = (-scrollTop) + 'px';
  div1.scrollTop = 0;
  // give focus to inner divdocument.getElementById('div2').focus();
  // Undo the horribleness
  div2.style.marginTop = '0px';
  div1.scrollTop = scrollTop;
}