Window: scrollTo() method
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
Window.scrollTo() scrolls to a particular set ofcoordinates in the document.
Syntax
scrollTo(xCoord, yCoord)scrollTo(options)Parameters
xCoordThe pixel along the horizontal axis of thedocument that you want displayed in the upper left.
yCoordThe pixel along the vertical axis of the documentthat you want displayed in the upper left.
optionsAn object containing the following properties:
topSpecifies the number of pixels along the Y axis to scroll the window or element.
leftSpecifies the number of pixels along the X axis to scroll the window or element.
behaviorDetermines whether scrolling is instant or animates smoothly. This option is a string which must take one of the following values:
smooth: scrolling should animate smoothlyinstant: scrolling should happen instantly in a single jumpauto: scroll behavior is determined by the computed value ofscroll-behavior
Return value
None (undefined).
Examples
window.scrollTo(0, 1000);Usingoptions:
window.scrollTo({ top: 100, left: 100, behavior: "smooth",});Notes
Window.scroll() is effectively the same as this method. For relativescrolling, seeWindow.scrollBy(),Window.scrollByLines(),andWindow.scrollByPages().
For scrolling elements, seeElement.scrollTop andElement.scrollLeft.
Specifications
| Specification |
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| CSSOM View Module # dom-window-scrollto |