How to capture scroll event? - infinite-scroll

Question

I want to implement infinite scrolling. Below is a short form of my layout. Since I have some elements relative positioned the javascript scroll event does not fire.
How can I fix this problem in order to get the scroll event to be fired and implement the infinite scrolling?
My main layout is:
<div id="container">
<div class="wrapper">
<div id="header">
...
</div> <%-- header --%>
<div id="main">
...
</div>
</div> <%-- wrapper --%>
</div> <%-- container --%>
<div id="footer">
</div>
And my CSS is:
#container {
position: absolute;
z-index: 1;
top: 0;
bottom: 35px;
left: 0;
right: 0;
overflow-y: auto;
overflow-x: hidden;
}
.wrapper {
margin: 0 auto;
width: 960px;
position: relative;
}
#header {
position: relative;
}
#main {
}
#footer {
z-index: 2;
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
height: 35px;
}
What do I have to change such that I can receive the browser scroll event with my layout to implement infinite scrolling?

Answer 1

The correct way to implement it is:
<div id="container" onScroll="handleOnScroll();">
<script>
function handleOnScroll() {
alert("scroll");
};
</script>

Answer 2

EDIT: Since you originally tagged your question with jquery...
To capture the scroll event using jQuery...
HTML:
<div id="container">
CONTENT
</div>
jQuery:
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#container').scroll(function() {
alert('scroll');
// presumably your infinite scrolling code here
});
});
See: http://api.jquery.com/scroll/

Answer 3

This is what i used in my code...
<div id="DataDiv" style="overflow: auto; width: 280px; height:400px; margin-top: 10px;"
onscroll="Onscrollfnction();">
my content here
</div>
Function is as below
function Onscrollfnction() {
var div = document.getElementById('DataDiv');
div.scrollLeft;
return false;
};
After content crossing 400px, scrolling will start and will be infinite..
enjoy