HTML DOM Element scrollIntoView

Example

Scroll the element with id="content" into the visible area of the browser window:

const element = document.getElementById("content");
element.scrollIntoView();
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More examples below.


Description

The scrollIntoView() method scrolls an element into the visible area of the browser window.


Syntax

element.scrollIntoView(align)

Parameters

Parameter Description
align Optional.
A boolean that indicates the type of the align:

true - the top of the element will be aligned to the top of the visible area of the scrollable ancestor

false - the bottom of the element will be aligned to the bottom of the visible area of the scrollable ancestor.

If omitted, it will scroll to the top of the element.

Note: Depending on the layout of other elements, some elements may not be scrolled completely to the top or to the bottom.


Return Value

NONE

More Examples

Example

Scroll to the top or to the bottom of an element:

const element = document.getElementById("content");

function scrollToTop() {
  element.scrollIntoView(true);
}

function scrollToBottom() {
  element.scrollIntoView(false);
}
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Browser Support

element.scrollIntoView() is supported in all browsers:

Chrome Edge Firefox Safari Opera IE
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