<p>Can I use JavaScript to check (irrespective of scrollbars) if an HTML element has overflowed its content? For example, a long div with small, fixed size, the overflow property set to visible, and no scrollbars on the element.</p>

Try comparing
```
element.scrollHeight
```
/
```
element.scrollWidth
```
to
```
element.offsetHeight
```
/
```
element.offsetWidth
```
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/element.offsetWidth
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/element.offsetHeight
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/element.scrollWidth
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/element.scrollHeight