Scroll Automatically to the Bottom of the Page

Question

I have a list of questions. When I click on the first question, it should automatically take me to a specific element at the bottom of the page.

How can I do this with jQuery?

user_1254250 · Answer

one liner to smooth scroll to the bottom

window.scrollTo({ left: 0, top: document.body.scrollHeight, behavior: "smooth" });

To scroll up simply set top to 0

user_8112776 · Answer

CSS-Only?!

An interesting CSS-only alternative:

display: flex; 
flex-direction: column-reverse;

  /* ...probably usually along with: */

overflow-y: scroll;  /* or hidden or auto */
height: 100px; /* or whatever */

It's not bullet-proof but I've found it helpful in several situations.

Documentation: flex, flex-direction, overflow-y

^Demo:

var i=0, foo='Lorem Ipsum & foo in bar or blah ! on and'.split(' ');
setInterval(function(){demo.innerHTML+=foo[i++%foo.length]+' '},200)

#demo{ display:flex;
       flex-direction:column-reverse;
       overflow-y:scroll;
       width:150px; 
       height:150px;
       border:3px solid black; }
body{ font-family:arial,sans-serif; 
      font-size:15px; }

Autoscrolling demo:🐾

user_3093731 · Answer

So many answers trying to calculate the height of the document. But it wasn't calculating correctly for me. However, both of these worked:

jquery

    $('html,body').animate({scrollTop: 9999});

or just js

    window.scrollTo(0,9999);

user_8959570 · Answer

A simple way if you want to scroll down to a specific element.

Call this function whenever you want to scroll down.

function scrollDown() {
 document.getElementById('scroll').scrollTop =  document.getElementById('scroll').scrollHeight
}

ul{
 height: 100px;
 width: 200px;
 overflow-y: scroll;
 border: 1px solid #000;
}


Top Here
Something Here
Something Here
Something Here
Something Here
Something Here
Something Here
Something Here
Something Here
Something Here
Bottom Here
Bottom Here

user_15489646 · Answer

Here is a method that worked for me:

Expected outcome:

No scroll animation
Loads at bottom of page on first load
Loads on bottom of page for all refreshes

Code:

Why this may work over other methods:

Browsers such as Chrome have a built-in preset to remember where you were on the page, after refreshing. Just a window.onload doesn't work because your browser will automatically scroll you back to where you were before refreshing, AFTER you call a line such as:

window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight);

That's why we need to add:

history.scrollRestoration = "manual";

before the window.onload to disable that built-in feature first.

References:

Documentation for window.onload: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/GlobalEventHandlers/onload

Documentation for window.scrollTo: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/scrollTo

Documentation for history.scrollRestoration: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History/scrollRestoration

user_6817487 · Answer

For Scroll down in Selenium use below code:

Till the bottom drop down, scroll till the height of the page. Use the below javascript code that would work fine in both, JavaScript and React.

JavascriptExecutor jse = (JavascriptExecutor) driver; // (driver is your browser webdriver object) 
jse.executeScript("window.scrollBy(0,document.body.scrollHeight || document.documentElement.scrollHeight)", "");

user_177347 · Answer

I have an Angular app with dynamic content and I tried several of the above answers with not much success. I adapted @Konard's answer and got it working in plain JS for my scenario:

HTML


    
    
        
            

            Details for Customer 1
            
            
            
                
            
            
            
                
            
            
            
                
            
            
            
                
            
            
            
                
            
            
            
                
                
                    {{'Choose file...'}}

CSS

body {
    background: #20262E;
    padding: 20px;
    font-family: Helvetica;
}

#app {
    background: #fff;
    border-radius: 4px;
    padding: 20px;
    transition: all 0.2s;
}

JS

function scrollToBottom() {
    scrollInterval;
    stopScroll;

    var scrollInterval = setInterval(function () {
        document.documentElement.scrollTop = document.documentElement.scrollHeight;
    }, 50);

    var stopScroll = setInterval(function () {
        clearInterval(scrollInterval);
    }, 100);
}

Tested on the latest Chrome, FF, Edge, and stock Android browser. Here's a fiddle:

https://jsfiddle.net/cbruen1/18cta9gd/16/

user_7888453 · Answer

I found a trick to make it happen.

Put an input type text at the bottom of the page and call a jquery focus on it whenever you need to go at the bottom.

Make it readonly and nice css to clear border and background.

user_7882886 · Answer

If any one searching for Angular

you just need to scroll down add this to your div

 #scrollMe [scrollTop]="scrollMe.scrollHeight"

user_7371886 · Answer

This will guaranteed scroll to the bottom

Head Codes

Body code

▼ Bottom ▼

user_9710879 · Answer

I've had the same issue. For me at one point in time the div's elements were not loaded entirely and the scrollTop property was initialized with the current value of scrollHeight, which was not the correct end value of scrollHeight.

My project is in Angular 8 and what I did was:

I used viewchild in order to obtain the element in my .ts file.
I've inherited the AfterViewChecked event and placed one line of code in there which states that the viewchild element has to take into the scrollTop value the value of scrollHeight (this.viewChildElement.nativeElement.scrollTop = this.viewChildElement.nativeElement.scrollHeight;)

The AfterViewChecked event fires a few times and it gets in the end the proper value from scrollHeight.

user_11272002 · Answer

We can use ref and by getElementById for scrolling specific modal or page .

 const scrollToBottomModel = () => {
    const scrollingElement = document.getElementById("post-chat");
    scrollingElement.scrollTop = scrollingElement.scrollHeight;
  };

In the modal body you can call above function

  scrollToBottomModel()}
          id="post-chat"
        >

will work this

user_18191667 · Answer

A simple example with jquery

$('html, body').animate({
    scrollTop:   $(this).height(),
  });

user_7532790 · Answer

I gave up with scrollto but instead tried anchor approach:

scroll to the bottom

Along with this CSS charm:

html,
body {
    scroll-behavior: smooth;
}

Have a nice day!

user_8385841 · Answer

window.scrollTo(0,1e10);

always works.

1e10 is a big number. so its always the end of the page.

user_325418 · Answer

A picture is worth a thousand words:

The key is:

document.documentElement.scrollTo({
  left: 0,
  top: document.documentElement.scrollHeight - document.documentElement.clientHeight,
  behavior: 'smooth'
});

It is using document.documentElement, which is the element. It is just like using window, but it is just my personal preference to do it this way, because if it is not the whole page but a container, it works just like this except you'd change document.body and document.documentElement to document.querySelector("#container-id").

Example:

let cLines = 0;

let timerID = setInterval(function() {
  let elSomeContent = document.createElement("div");

  if (++cLines > 33) {
    clearInterval(timerID);
    elSomeContent.innerText = "That's all folks!";
  } else {
    elSomeContent.innerText = new Date().toLocaleDateString("en", {
      dateStyle: "long",
      timeStyle: "medium"
    });
  }
  document.body.appendChild(elSomeContent);

  document.documentElement.scrollTo({
    left: 0,
    top: document.documentElement.scrollHeight - document.documentElement.clientHeight,
    behavior: 'smooth'
  });

}, 1000);

body {
  font: 27px Arial, sans-serif;
  background: #ffc;
  color: #333;
}

You can compare the difference if there is no scrollTo():

let cLines = 0;

let timerID = setInterval(function() {
  let elSomeContent = document.createElement("div");

  if (++cLines > 33) {
    clearInterval(timerID);
    elSomeContent.innerText = "That's all folks!";
  } else {
    elSomeContent.innerText = new Date().toLocaleDateString("en", {
      dateStyle: "long",
      timeStyle: "medium"
    });
  }
  document.body.appendChild(elSomeContent);

}, 1000);

body {
  font: 27px Arial, sans-serif;
  background: #ffc;
  color: #333;
}