原来在HTML文件头部声明了这样一句:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

改成这样就好了:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
但页面稍有变化,感觉不爽,于是又在google里找,终于发现这是IE5与IE6的区别:

var scrollPos;
if (typeof window.pageYOffset != 'undefined') {
   scrollPos = window.pageYOffset;
}
else if (typeof document.compatMode != 'undefined' &&
     document.compatMode != 'BackCompat') {
   scrollPos = document.documentElement.scrollTop;
}
else if (typeof document.body != 'undefined') {
   scrollPos = document.body.scrollTop;
}
alert(scrollPos);

如果顶部申明
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

document.body.scrollTop
要改成
document.documentElement.scrollTop