Upon clicking a button (which is bottom of the page), I want to go to a certain element (in my case, #navbar) which is in the top of the current page, but I don't know how to do it. I've tried the following code with no avail.
<nav class="navbar navbar-light bg-faded" id="navbar">
<a class="navbar-brand" href="#">
{{appTitle}}
</a>
<!-- rest of the nav link -->
</nav>
<!-- rest of the page content -->
<!-- bottom of the page -->
<button class="btn btn-outline-secondary" (click)="gotoTop()">Top</button>
In angular component:
import { Router } from '@angular/router';
/* rest of the import statements */
export class MyComponent {
/* rest of the component code */
gotoTop(){
this.router.navigate([], { fragment: 'navbar' });
}
}
I would really appreciate if someone helped me out with a solution and explained why my code hadn't worked.
Please note that element (navbar) is in other component.
You can do this with javascript:
gotoTop() {
let el = document.getElementById('navbar');
el.scrollTop = el.scrollHeight;
}
This will bring the DOM element with id="navbar"
into view when the method is called. There's also the option of using Element.scrollIntoView. This can provide a smooth animation and looks nice, but isn't supported on older browsers.
If the element is in a different component you can reference it several different ways as seen in this question.
The easiest method for your case would likely be:
import { ElementRef } from '@angular/core'; // at the top of component.ts
constructor(myElement: ElementRef) { ... } // in your export class MyComponent block
and finally
gotoTop() {
let el = this.myElement.nativeElement.querySelector('nav');
el.scrollIntoView();
}
Working plunker.
I know, you want to scroll to a specific element in the page. But, if the element is in the top of the page, then you can use the following:
window.scrollTo(0, 0);
I think your way didn't work because of the empty router.
this.router.navigate(['/home'], { fragment: 'top' });
would work if 'home' is declared as a route and you have the id="top" element on it.
I know you would like it to be "pure Angular way", but this should work (at least):
gotoTop(){
location.hash = "#navbar";
}