Scroll Automatically to the Bottom of the Page

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?

Solution 1:

jQuery isn't necessary. Most of the top results I got from a Google search gave me this answer:

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

Where you have nested elements, the document might not scroll. In this case, you need to target the element that scrolls and use it's scroll height instead.

window.scrollTo(0,document.querySelector(".scrollingContainer").scrollHeight);

You can tie that to the onclick event of your question (i.e. <div onclick="ScrollToBottom()" ...).

Some additional sources you can take a look at:

http://www.sourcetricks.com/2010/07/javascript-scroll-to-bottom-of-page.html
http://www.alecjacobson.com/weblog/?p=753
http://www.mediacollege.com/internet/javascript/page/scroll.html
http://www.electrictoolbox.com/jquery-scroll-bottom/

Solution 2:

To scroll entire page to the bottom:

var scrollingElement = (document.scrollingElement || document.body);
scrollingElement.scrollTop = scrollingElement.scrollHeight;

See the example on JSFiddle

To scroll an element to the bottom:

function gotoBottom(id){
   var element = document.getElementById(id);
   element.scrollTop = element.scrollHeight - element.clientHeight;
}

And here's how it works:

enter image description here

Ref: scrollTop, scrollHeight, clientHeight

UPDATE: Latest versions of Chrome (61+) and Firefox does not support scrolling of body, see: https://dev.opera.com/articles/fixing-the-scrolltop-bug/

Solution 3:

Vanilla JS implementation:

element.scrollIntoView(false);

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/element.scrollIntoView

Solution 4:

You can use this to go down the page in an animation format.

$('html,body').animate({scrollTop: document.body.scrollHeight},"fast");

Solution 5:

Below should be the cross browser solution. It has been tested on Chrome, Firefox, Safari and IE11

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

window.scrollTo(0,document.body.scrollHeight); doesn't work on Firefox, at least for Firefox 37.0.2