Scroll Automatically to the Bottom of the Page

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Scroll Automatically to the Bottom of the Page

1.3m Views Asked by jat At 04 April 2025 at 16:44

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?

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There are 32 best solutions below

Joukhar On 14 April 2022 at 01:24

A simple example with jquery

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

Ahsan Khurshid On 30 July 2012 at 05:08

You may try Gentle Anchors a nice javascript plugin.

Example:

function SomeFunction() {
  // your code
  // Pass an id attribute to scroll to. The # is required
  Gentle_Anchors.Setup('#destination');
  // maybe some more code
}

Compatibility Tested on:

Mac Firefox, Safari, Opera
Windows Firefox, Opera, Safari, Internet Explorer 5.55+
Linux untested but should be fine with Firefox at least

NrNazifi On 30 July 2012 at 05:09

You can use this function wherever you need to call it:

function scroll_to(div){
   if (div.scrollTop < div.scrollHeight - div.clientHeight)
        div.scrollTop += 10; // move down

}

jquery.com: ScrollTo

Mihai Rădulescu On 24 September 2020 at 09:40

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.

user5978325 On 25 February 2016 at 05:01

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

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

Baldrick On 16 December 2022 at 09:24

If there is an ID in any kind of tag at or nearby where you want to scroll to, then all it takes is one line of JavaScript making use of the scrollIntoView function. For example, let's say your element in question is a DIV with the ID "mydiv1"

<div id="mydiv1">[your contents]</div>

then you would run the JavaScript command

document.getElementById("mydiv1").scrollIntoView();

No JQuery is necessary at all. Hope this helps.

Arti On 23 March 2022 at 13:33

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

 <Modal.Body
          className="show-grid"
          scrollable={true}
          style={{
            maxHeight: "calc(100vh - 210px)",
            overflowY: "auto",
            height: "590px",
          }}
          ref={input => scrollToBottomModel()}
          id="post-chat"
        >

will work this

Iamma Iamma On 26 January 2016 at 08:34

Here's my solution:

 //**** scroll to bottom if at bottom

 function scrollbottom() {
    if (typeof(scr1)!='undefined') clearTimeout(scr1)   
    var scrollTop = (document.documentElement && document.documentElement.scrollTop) || document.body.scrollTop;
    var scrollHeight = (document.documentElement && document.documentElement.scrollHeight) || document.body.scrollHeight;
    if((scrollTop + window.innerHeight) >= scrollHeight-50) window.scrollTo(0,scrollHeight+50)
    scr1=setTimeout(function(){scrollbottom()},200) 
 }
 scr1=setTimeout(function(){scrollbottom()},200)

ashleedawg On 21 August 2021 at 16:26

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:&#x1f43e;
<div id='demo'></div>

Andrew On 16 December 2018 at 17:51

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);

RegarBoy On 10 January 2017 at 00:31

You can attach any id to reference attribute href of link element:

<a href="#myLink" id="myLink">
    Click me
</a>

In the example above when user clicks Click me at the bottom of page, navigation navigates to Click me itself.

Joseph Owigo On 18 July 2023 at 13:26

using reac.js here is the working code

        //auto scroll to the bottom 
    useEffect(()=>{
      const chatHolder = document.getElementById('chats-wrapper')
       if(chatHolder) {
          chatHolder.scrollIntoView({behavior: "smooth"})
       }
  },[chats])

ObjectJosh On 27 March 2021 at 08:11

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:

<script>
    function scrollToBottom() {
        window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight);
    }
    history.scrollRestoration = "manual";
    window.onload = scrollToBottom;
</script>

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

Liam On 17 June 2018 at 16:25

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;
}

<ul id='scroll'>
<li>Top Here</li>
<li>Something Here</li>
<li>Something Here</li>
<li>Something Here</li>
<li>Something Here</li>
<li>Something Here</li>
<li>Something Here</li>
<li>Something Here</li>
<li>Something Here</li>
<li>Something Here</li>
<li>Bottom Here</li>
<li style="color: red">Bottom Here</li>
</ul>

<br />

<button onclick='scrollDown()'>Scroll Down</button>

Ciarán Bruen On 11 June 2020 at 20:41

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

<div id="app">
    <button onClick="scrollToBottom()">Scroll to Bottom</button>
    <div class="row">
        <div class="col-md-4">
            <br>
            <h4>Details for Customer 1</h4>
            <hr>
            <!-- sequence Id -->
            <div class="form-group">
                <input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="ID">
            </div>
            <!-- name -->
            <div class="form-group">
                <input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Name">
            </div>
            <!-- description -->
            <div class="form-group">
                <textarea type="text" style="min-height: 100px" placeholder="Description" ></textarea>
            </div>
            <!-- address -->
            <div class="form-group">
                <input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Address">
            </div>
            <!-- postcode -->
            <div class="form-group">
                <input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Postcode">
            </div>
            <!-- Image -->
            <div class="form-group">
                <img style="width: 100%; height: 300px;">
                <div class="custom-file mt-3">
                    <label class="custom-file-label">{{'Choose file...'}}</label>
                </div>
            </div>
            <!-- Delete button -->
            <div class="form-group">
                <hr>
                <div class="row">
                    <div class="col">
                        <button class="btn btn-success btn-block" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom" title="Click to save">Save</button>
                        <button class="btn btn-success btn-block" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom" title="Click to update">Update</button>
                    </div>
                    <div class="col">
                        <button class="btn btn-danger btn-block" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom" title="Click to remove">Remove</button>
                    </div>
                </div>
                <hr>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

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/

Timar Ivo Batis On 09 July 2019 at 10:08

window.scrollTo(0,1e10);

always works.

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

nonopolarity On 03 February 2020 at 00:58

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 <html> 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;
}

Toma On 06 August 2022 at 06:48

I gave up with scrollto but instead tried anchor approach:

<a href="#target_id_at_bottom">scroll to the bottom</a>

Along with this CSS charm:

html,
body {
    scroll-behavior: smooth;
}

Have a nice day!

SHeikhAzhan On 26 May 2023 at 15:05

Maybe there is "autofocus" somewhere in your code

Ankit Gupta On 24 October 2017 at 07:13

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)", "");

Ricardo Vieira On 08 May 2014 at 17:13

you can do this too with animation, its very simple

$('html, body').animate({
   scrollTop: $('footer').offset().top
   //scrollTop: $('#your-id').offset().top
   //scrollTop: $('.your-class').offset().top
}, 'slow');

hope helps, thank you

Tho On 18 October 2015 at 02:23

To scroll entire page to the bottom:

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

You can view the demo here

To scroll a specific element to the bottom:

const scrollToBottom = (id) => {
    const element = document.getElementById(id);
    element.scrollTop = element.scrollHeight;
}

Here is the demo

And here's how it works:

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/

Devin Rhode On 18 February 2024 at 04:29

Here's a fairly modern react/typescript-ish utility I am using:

export const scrollToBottom = () => {
  // Assume a react re-render may need to happen first
  setTimeout(() => {
    requestAnimationFrame(() => {
      window.scrollTo({
        top: document.documentElement.scrollHeight - window.innerHeight,
        left: 0,
        behavior: 'smooth',
      })
    })
  }, 3)
}

See browser support on smooth scrolling here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/scrollTo#browser_compatibility

This could probably be turned into a hook:

export const useScrollToBottomWhen = (condition: boolean) => {
  useEffect(() => {
    if (condition) {
      window.scrollTo({
        top: document.documentElement.scrollHeight - window.innerHeight,
        left: 0,
        behavior: 'smooth',
      })
    }
  }, [condition]);
}

ShortFuse On 27 May 2016 at 17:54

Late to the party, but here's some simple javascript-only code to scroll any element to the bottom:

function scrollToBottom(e) {
  e.scrollTop = e.scrollHeight - e.getBoundingClientRect().height;
}

Konard On 01 June 2016 at 20:32

Sometimes the page extends on scroll to buttom (for example in social networks), to scroll down to the end (ultimate buttom of the page) I use this script:

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

And if you are in browser's javascript console, it might be useful to be able to stop the scrolling, so add:

var stopScroll = function() { clearInterval(scrollInterval); };

And then use stopScroll();.

If you need to scroll to particular element, use:

var element = document.querySelector(".element-selector");
element.scrollIntoView();

Or universal script for autoscrolling to specific element (or stop page scrolling interval):

var notChangedStepsCount = 0;
var scrollInterval = setInterval(function() {
    var element = document.querySelector(".element-selector");
    if (element) { 
        // element found
        clearInterval(scrollInterval);
        element.scrollIntoView();
    } else if((document.documentElement.scrollTop + window.innerHeight) != document.documentElement.scrollHeight) { 
        // no element -> scrolling
        notChangedStepsCount = 0;
        document.documentElement.scrollTop = document.documentElement.scrollHeight;
    } else if (notChangedStepsCount > 20) { 
        // no more space to scroll
        clearInterval(scrollInterval);
    } else {
        // waiting for possible extension (autoload) of the page
        notChangedStepsCount++;
    }
}, 50);

SeekLoad On 05 January 2020 at 22:17

This will guaranteed scroll to the bottom

Head Codes

<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8.1.min.js"></script>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
function scrollToBottom() {
  $('#html, body').scrollTop($('#html, body')[0].scrollHeight);
}
</script>

Body code

<a href="javascript:void(0);" onmouseover="scrollToBottom();" title="Scroll to Bottom">&#9660; Bottom &#9660;</a>

shmuli On 15 July 2014 at 19:30

Vanilla JS implementation:

element.scrollIntoView(false);

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

Julien On 10 November 2020 at 21:43

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.

PixelsTech On 30 April 2015 at 15:36

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

Akitha_MJ On 17 September 2019 at 08:37

If any one searching for Angular

you just need to scroll down add this to your div

 #scrollMe [scrollTop]="scrollMe.scrollHeight"

   <div class="my-list" #scrollMe [scrollTop]="scrollMe.scrollHeight">
   </div>

TLJ On 26 September 2019 at 03:09

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

**Zhihao** · Accepted Answer

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 its scroll height instead.

nestedElement.scrollTo(0, nestedElement.scrollHeight);

Some additional sources you can take a look at:

Scroll Automatically to the Bottom of the Page

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^Demo:

Here is a method that worked for me:

Expected outcome:

Code:

Why this may work over other methods:

References:

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