How do I scroll to the top of the page using JavaScript? The scrollbar instantly jumping to the top of the page is desirable too as I'm not looking to achieve smooth scrolling.
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2019, to avoid “This site appears to use a scroll-linked positioning effect. This may not work well with asynchronous panning” use my script https://stackoverflow.com/a/57641938/5781320 – Constantin Aug 24 '19 at 22:34
44 Answers
If you don't need the change to animate then you don't need to use any special plugins - I'd just use the native JavaScript window.scrollTo()
method -- passing in 0, 0
will scroll the page to the top left instantly.
window.scrollTo(xCoord, yCoord);
Parameters
- xCoord is the pixel along the horizontal axis.
- yCoord is the pixel along the vertical axis.
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181That was my point, if you don't need to animate smooth scrolling then you don't need to use jQuery. – Rylee Mar 01 '12 at 21:47
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24Funny as jeff's comment is honestly for people who just want things to work cross browser 95% of the time should just use jQuery. This is coming from someone who has to write a lot of pure javascript right now because we can't afford the overhead of a library slowing down ad code :( – Will Jun 10 '13 at 17:10
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14This answer has nothing to do with the question. It would be fine if the question was: What script and methods should I use to scroll to the top of the page? Correct answer is here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4147112/how-to-jump-to-top-of-browser-page#answer-4147118 – skobaljic Feb 11 '14 at 12:00
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3Working for me in Firefox 40 and Chrome 44 (to address Mikhail's comment) – tony Aug 21 '15 at 13:23
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16Scroll to the bottom of the page `window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight);` – emix May 25 '16 at 09:57
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3Even if you need to animate. `scrollTo` now takes an options as param: `scrollTo({left: 0, top: 0, behavior: 'smooth'})` see [MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/ScrollToOptions) – Fla Aug 26 '19 at 10:46
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could you please help on related question please? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58653046/page-always-autofocus-on-textarea-and-scrolltotop-is-not-working-then – newdeveloper Nov 01 '19 at 01:29
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you have just to add this CSS to get a smooth scroll :) html { scroll-behavior: smooth; } – Sofiane May 31 '20 at 17:18
If you do want smooth scrolling, try something like this:
$("a[href='#top']").click(function() {
$("html, body").animate({ scrollTop: 0 }, "slow");
return false;
});
That will take any <a>
tag whose href="#top"
and make it smooth scroll to the top.
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+1. I was just wondering how to do something like this and google lead me here. QUestion though, where is "scrollTop" function in the docs? I just looked but couldn't find it. – sqram Jul 18 '09 at 01:55
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22scrollTop is not function, it is a property of the window element – Jalal El-Shaer Nov 26 '09 at 14:19
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1This does not work correctly when using animate's complete callback, as it will run it twice. – David Morales Jul 22 '12 at 11:41
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1@jalchr Actually, `window.pageYOffset` would be the property of the window e̶l̶e̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ object. – Alex W Oct 08 '13 at 18:40
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So you've added html to the selector because, although by default it's in body, it may be moved outside, to the html? – Prusprus May 14 '13 at 15:30
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5"html" and "body" are both required for browser compatibility, i.e. Chrome v27 scrolls with just "body" and IE8 does not. IE8 scrolls with just "html" but Chrome v27 does not. – SushiGuy May 30 '13 at 16:56
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@user751564: It's not necessary, check http://stackoverflow.com/a/16430109/544283. – Esteban May 08 '13 at 00:55
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Try this to scroll on top
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
$(window).scrollTop(0);
});
</script>
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this is the same: if ('scrollRestoration' in history) { history.scrollRestoration = 'manual'; } – Vasilii Suricov Mar 31 '19 at 10:45
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Better solution with smooth animation:
// this changes the scrolling behavior to "smooth"
window.scrollTo({ top: 0, behavior: 'smooth' });
Reference: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/scrollTo#Example
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You may still need to polyfill support for the `ScrollOptions` (for certain browsers): https://github.com/iamdustan/smoothscroll – jneuendorf Dec 05 '18 at 08:57
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Can someone test this on Safari or Internet Explorer and see if it's working fine? Thanks – Fabio Magarelli Mar 26 '20 at 10:23
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1@FabioMagarelli Its working fine on Safari, not tested on IE. FYI to test it on safari open any page which has scroll and copy paste the above code in Developer Tools -> Console it will scroll to top verified ( Safari Version 13.0.5). – Ganesh Ghalame Mar 26 '20 at 10:41
You don't need jQuery to do this. A standard HTML tag will suffice...
<div id="jump_to_me">
blah blah blah
</div>
<a target="#jump_to_me">Click Here To Destroy The World!</a>
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13+1 This is good if you need to navigate to specific element rather just to the top. – Ish May 30 '11 at 15:29
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This is not going to work if you call another button by using `getElementById` in the middle of a page. – Jim O. Sep 09 '20 at 18:21
All of these suggestions work great for various situations. For those who find this page through a search, one can also give this a try. JQuery, no plug-in, scroll to element.
$('html, body').animate({
scrollTop: $("#elementID").offset().top
}, 2000);
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smooth scroll, pure javascript:
(function smoothscroll(){
var currentScroll = document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.body.scrollTop;
if (currentScroll > 0) {
window.requestAnimationFrame(smoothscroll);
window.scrollTo (0,currentScroll - (currentScroll/5));
}
})();
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<script>
$(function(){
var scroll_pos=(0);
$('html, body').animate({scrollTop:(scroll_pos)}, '2000');
});
</script>
Edit:
$('html, body').animate({scrollTop:(scroll_pos)}, 2000);
Another way scroll with top and left margin:
window.scrollTo({ top: 100, left: 100, behavior: 'smooth' });
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You can't use a string for the duration in the `animate` function, instead you should use: `$('html, body').animate({scrollTop:(scroll_pos)}, 2000);` – Kenny Alvizuris Jun 19 '18 at 14:48
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1What is the point of wrapping 0 in parenthesis? ((0)) will simply evaluate to 0. – Jack Vial May 22 '19 at 22:19
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Really strange: This question is active for five years now and there is still no vanilla JavaScript answer to animate the scrolling… So here you go:
var scrollToTop = window.setInterval(function() {
var pos = window.pageYOffset;
if ( pos > 0 ) {
window.scrollTo( 0, pos - 20 ); // how far to scroll on each step
} else {
window.clearInterval( scrollToTop );
}
}, 16); // how fast to scroll (this equals roughly 60 fps)
If you like, you can wrap this in a function and call that via the onclick
attribute. Check this jsfiddle
Note: This is a very basic solution and maybe not the most performant one. A very elaborated example can be found here: https://github.com/cferdinandi/smooth-scroll
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8The question explicitly asks for a jQuery solution though. so not strange – Will Oct 29 '14 at 21:51
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3Best solution for me. No plugins, no bulky jquery library just straightforward javascript. Kudos – user2840467 Nov 08 '16 at 22:06
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1Man, I also created this same logic XD after 5 years, exactly the same logic, only values are different like, the interval time and that integer which we are using to subtract, can't believe XD. TBH, came here to answer but it's already there so upvoted your answer. – Germa Vinsmoke Jul 02 '19 at 08:51
<script>
$("a[href='#top']").click(function() {
$("html, body").animate({ scrollTop: 0 }, "slow");
return false;
});
</script>
in html
<a href="#top">go top</a>
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If you want to do smooth scrolling, please try this:
$("a").click(function() {
$("html, body").animate({ scrollTop: 0 }, "slow");
return false;
});
Another solution is JavaScript window.scrollTo method :
window.scrollTo(x-value, y-value);
Parameters :
- x-value is the pixel along the horizontal axis.
- y-value is the pixel along the vertical axis.
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7copycat... see users answers... This is just a compilation of the top 2 answers.... – Laurent B Nov 10 '17 at 11:13
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that is a legitimate way to use stackoverflow - it's more practical to have it in one place. Joel Spolsky used re-use of existing answers as an example of how stackoverflow is supposed to work at one point. If you are interested I can try and find the blog post – Edgar H Jan 25 '18 at 13:25
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With window.scrollTo(0, 0);
is very fast
so i tried the Mark Ursino example, but in Chrome nothing happens
and i found this
$('.showPeriodMsgPopup').click(function(){
//window.scrollTo(0, 0);
$('html').animate({scrollTop:0}, 'slow');//IE, FF
$('body').animate({scrollTop:0}, 'slow');//chrome, don't know if Safari works
$('.popupPeriod').fadeIn(1000, function(){
setTimeout(function(){$('.popupPeriod').fadeOut(2000);}, 3000);
});
});
tested all 3 browsers and it works
i'm using blueprint css
this is when a client clicks "Book now" button and doesn't have the rental period selected, slowly moves to the top where the calendars are and opens a dialog div pointing to the 2 fields, after 3sec it fades
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Thanks for pointing out you need to target both html and body. I was only doing it for html and wondering why it didn't work in Chrome. – Jared Mar 10 '11 at 20:42
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The body animation does work in Safari, so I'm updating your answer accordingly. – Dave DuPlantis May 20 '11 at 19:27
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14Why not just do $('html', 'body').animate({scrollTop:0}) instead of adding two lines? – Matt Smith Aug 18 '12 at 02:53
A lot of users recommend selecting both the html and body tags for cross-browser compatibility, like so:
$('html, body').animate({ scrollTop: 0 }, callback);
This can trip you up though if you're counting on your callback running only once. It will in fact run twice because you've selected two elements.
If that is a problem for you, you can do something like this:
function scrollToTop(callback) {
if ($('html').scrollTop()) {
$('html').animate({ scrollTop: 0 }, callback);
return;
}
$('body').animate({ scrollTop: 0 }, callback);
}
The reason this works is in Chrome $('html').scrollTop()
returns 0, but not in other browsers such as Firefox.
If you don't want to wait for the animation to complete in the case that the scrollbar is already at the top, try this:
function scrollToTop(callback) {
if ($('html').scrollTop()) {
$('html').animate({ scrollTop: 0 }, callback);
return;
}
if ($('body').scrollTop()) {
$('body').animate({ scrollTop: 0 }, callback);
return;
}
callback();
}
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The old #top
can do the trick
document.location.href = "#top";
Works fine in FF, IE and Chrome
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you should avoid navigation based solutions, see comments on Sriramajeyam's answer. – Andrew Grothe May 09 '16 at 23:26
Non-jQuery solution / pure JavaScript:
document.body.scrollTop = document.documentElement.scrollTop = 0;
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$(".scrolltop").click(function() {
$("html, body").animate({ scrollTop: 0 }, "slow");
return false;
});
.section{
height:400px;
}
.section1{
background-color: #333;
}
.section2{
background-color: red;
}
.section3{
background-color: yellow;
}
.section4{
background-color: green;
}
.scrolltop{
position:fixed;
right:10px;
bottom:10px;
color:#fff;
}
<html>
<head>
<title>Scroll top demo</title>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="content-wrapper">
<div class="section section1"></div>
<div class="section section2"></div>
<div class="section section3"></div>
<div class="section section4"></div>
<a class="scrolltop">Scroll top</a>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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3While this code may answer the question, providing information on how and why it solves the problem improves its long-term value – L_J Jul 14 '18 at 07:53
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In web page any user will click on scroll top button then then page will scroll top top with animation. – arvinda kumar Jul 21 '18 at 05:57
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$(document).scrollTop(0);
also works.
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2Note that when you don't use Firefox this won't work. You get an error when only giving one argument (Error: Not enough arguments [nsIDOMWindow.scrollTo]). – Husky Nov 14 '12 at 13:57
The equivalent solution in TypeScript may be as the following
window.scroll({
top: 0,
left: 0,
behavior: 'smooth'
});
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3Your snippet has nothing to do with TypeScript and work perfectly fine in Javascript. – François Noël Sep 25 '20 at 19:25
Try this code:
$('html, body').animate({
scrollTop: $("div").offset().top
}, time);
div => Dom Element where you want to move scroll.
time => milliseconds, define the speed of the scroll.
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Pure JavaScript solution:
function scrollToTop() {
window.scrollTo({
top: 0,
behavior: 'smooth'
});
I write an animated solution on Codepen
Also, you can try another solution with CSS scroll-behavior: smooth
property.
html {
scroll-behavior: smooth;
}
@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
html {
scroll-behavior: auto;
}
}
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You dont need JQuery. Simply you can call the script
window.location = '#'
on click of the "Go to top" button
Sample demo:
PS: Don't use this approach, when you are using modern libraries like angularjs. That might broke the URL hashbang.
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10Unfortunately, it's not the best solution since you are changing location physically in that case instead of scrolling the page. That might cause issues if location is important (in case of using Angular routing or so) – Yaroslav Rogoza Dec 17 '15 at 15:50
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3@YaroslavRogoza is correct. While it *may* work in simple cases, I would not recommend this solution. Location is becoming increasingly important and single-page apps extensively use the hash to handle navigation. You would immediately introduce a side-effect bug when either adding hash based navigation after this or this to hash based navigation. – Andrew Grothe May 09 '16 at 23:23
Why don't you use JQuery inbuilt function scrollTop :
$('html, body').scrollTop(0);//For scrolling to top
$("body").scrollTop($("body")[0].scrollHeight);//For scrolling to bottom
Short and simple!
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You're just missing the link [to the doc](https://api.jquery.com/scrollTop/#scrollTop-value) – Cyril Duchon-Doris Jun 13 '16 at 11:31
Simply use this script for scroll to top direct.
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
$("button").click(function(){
($('body').scrollTop(0));
});
});
</script>
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If you don't want smooth scrolling, you can cheat and stop the smooth scrolling animation pretty much as soon as you start it... like so:
$(document).ready(function() {
$("a[href='#top']").click(function() {
$("html, body").animate({ scrollTop: 0 }, "1");
$('html, body').stop(true, true);
//Anything else you want to do in the same action goes here
return false;
});
});
I've no idea whether it's recommended/allowed, but it works :)
When would you use this? I'm not sure, but perhaps when you want to use one click to animate one thing with Jquery, but do another without animation? ie open a slide-in admin login panel at the top of the page, and instantly jump to the top to see it.
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Motivation
This simple solution works natively and implements a smooth scroll to any position.
It avoids using anchor links (those with #
) that, in my opinion, are useful if you want to link to a section, but are not so comfortable in some situations, specially when pointing to top which could lead to two different URLs pointing to the same location (http://www.example.org and http://www.example.org/#).
Solution
Put an id to the tag you want to scroll to, for example your first section, which answers this question, but the id could be placed everywhere in the page.
<body>
<section id="top">
<!-- your content -->
</section>
<div id="another"><!-- more content --></div>
Then as a button you can use a link, just edit the onclick attribute with a code like this.
<a onclick="document.getElementById('top').scrollIntoView({ behavior: 'smooth', block: 'start', inline: 'nearest' })">Click me</a>
Where the argument of document.getElementById
is the id of the tag you want to scroll to after click.
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@HugoStivenLagunaRueda you welcome, I found it on MDN, so thanks to Mozilla. It is awesome how many things are already there, supported natively. I love vanilla JS. – Gianluca Casati May 21 '18 at 14:03
You can use javascript's built in function scrollTo
:
function scroll() {
window.scrollTo({
top: 0,
behavior: 'smooth'
});
}
<button onclick="scroll">Scroll</button>
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You could simply use a target from your link, such as #someid, where #someid is the div's id.
Or, you could use any number of scrolling plugins that make this more elegant.
http://plugins.jquery.com/project/ScrollTo is an example.
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You can try using JS as in this Fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/5bNmH/1/
Add the "Go to top" button in your page footer:
<footer>
<hr />
<p>Just some basic footer text.</p>
<!-- Go to top Button -->
<a href="#" class="go-top">Go Top</a>
</footer>
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function scrolltop() {
var offset = 220;
var duration = 500;
jQuery(window).scroll(function() {
if (jQuery(this).scrollTop() > offset) {
jQuery('#back-to-top').fadeIn(duration);
} else {
jQuery('#back-to-top').fadeOut(duration);
}
});
jQuery('#back-to-top').click(function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
jQuery('html, body').animate({scrollTop: 0}, duration);
return false;
});
}
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None of the answers above will work in SharePoint 2016.
It has to be done like this : https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/195870/
var w = document.getElementById("s4-workspace");
w.scrollTop = 0;
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Smooth scrolling With Pure Javascript, Without jQuery
// Get The Id
var topPage = document.getElementById(`top-page`)
// On Click, Scroll to the Top of Page
topPage.onclick = () => window.scrollTo({ top: 0, behavior: 'smooth'}) // Remove behavior: 'smooth' if you don't want smooth scrolling
// On scroll, Show/Hide the button
window.onscroll = () => {
window.scrollY > 500 // You can change the value if you want
? (topPage.style.display = `block`)
: (topPage.style.display = `none`)
}
body {
background-color: #111;
height:5000px;
}
#top-page {
all:unset;
position: fixed;
right: 20px;
bottom: 20px;
cursor: pointer;
font: bold 2rem monospace;
color:white;
display: none;
}
<button id="top-page">Top</button>
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Active all Browser. Good luck
var process;
var delay = 50; //milisecond scroll top
var scrollPixel = 20; //pixel U want to change after milisecond
//Fix Undefine pageofset when using IE 8 below;
function getPapeYOfSet() {
var yOfSet = (typeof (window.pageYOffset) === "number") ? window.pageYOffset : document.documentElement.scrollTop;
return yOfSet;
}
function backToTop() {
process = setInterval(function () {
var yOfSet = getPapeYOfSet();
if (yOfSet === 0) {
clearInterval(process);
} else {
window.scrollBy(0, -scrollPixel);
}
}, delay);
}
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Try this
<script>
$(function(){
$('a').click(function(){
var href =$(this).attr("href");
$('body, html').animate({
scrollTop: $(href).offset().top
}, 1000)
});
});
</script>
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document.getElementById("id of what you want to scroll to").scrollIntoView();
Edit: It's been a year and I'm still randomly getting reputation from this post lmao
Edit 2: Please stop editing the first edit out. At least ask me before editing my post.
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1Thanks a lot. The only one that worked for me, strange though. Many thanks. – zmirc Jul 07 '20 at 04:24
If you'd like to scroll to any element with an ID, try this:
$('a[href^="#"]').bind('click.smoothscroll',function (e) {
e.preventDefault();
var target = this.hash;
$target = $(target);
$('html, body').stop().animate({
'scrollTop': $target.offset().top
}, 700, 'swing', function () {
window.location.hash = target;
});
});``
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There is no need to javascript, event if you wanted to animate the scroll action!
CSS:
html {
scroll-behavior: smooth;
}
HTML:
<html>
<body>
<a id="top"></a>
<!-- your document -->
<a href="#top">Jump to top of page</a>
</body>
</html>
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1The OP asked for javascript and did not state the causing event is a clck on an anchor. – martti Jan 17 '21 at 21:20
When top scroll is top less than limit bottom and bottom to top scroll Header is Sticky. Below See Fiddle Example.
var lastScroll = 0;
$(document).ready(function($) {
$(window).scroll(function(){
setTimeout(function() {
var scroll = $(window).scrollTop();
if (scroll > lastScroll) {
$("header").removeClass("menu-sticky");
}
if (scroll == 0) {
$("header").removeClass("menu-sticky");
}
else if (scroll < lastScroll - 5) {
$("header").addClass("menu-sticky");
}
lastScroll = scroll;
},0);
});
});
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Just Try, no need other plugin / frameworks
document.getElementById("jarscroolbtn").addEventListener("click", jarscrollfunction);
function jarscrollfunction() {
var body = document.body; // For Safari
var html = document.documentElement; // Chrome, Firefox, IE and Opera
body.scrollTop = 0;
html.scrollTop = 0;
}
<button id="jarscroolbtn">Scroll contents</button>
html, body {
scroll-behavior: smooth;
}
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Shortest
location='#'
This solution is improvement of pollirrata answer and have some drawback: no smooth scroll and change page location, but is shortest
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A simple example of scroll to (using html is much more efficient but here is how to do it with JavaScript):
const btn = document.querySelector('.btn');
btn.addEventListener('click',()=>{
window.scrollTo({
left: 0,
top: 0,
})})
window.addEventListener('scroll', function() {
const scrollHeight = window.pageYOffset;
if (scrollHeight > 500) {
btn.classList.add('show-link');
} else {
btn.classList.remove('show-link');
}
});
.section {
padding-bottom: 5rem;
height: 90vh;
}
.btn {
position: fixed;
bottom: 3rem;
right: 3rem;
background: blue;
width: 2rem;
height: 2rem;
color: #fff;
visibility: hidden;
z-index: -100;
}
.show-link {
visibility: visible;
z-index: 100;
}
.title h2 {
text-align: center;
}
<section class="section">
<div class="title">
<h2>Section One</h2>
</div>
</section>
<section class="section">
<div class="title">
<h2>Section Two</h2>
</div>
</section>
<section class="section">
<div class="title">
<h2>Section Three</h2>
</div>
</section>
<a class="btn">
</a>
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Funnily enough, most of these did not work for me AT ALL, so I used jQuery-ScrollTo.js with this:
wrapper.find(".jumpToTop").click(function() {
$('#wrapper').ScrollTo({
duration: 0,
offsetTop: -1*$('#container').offset().top
});
});
And it worked. $(document).scrollTop()
was returning 0
, and this one actually worked instead.
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