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navigateEvent.scroll()

Category

Miscellaneous

Type

No developer-visible change

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 105)

Intent stage

Shipped

Summary

scroll() works very similarly to the existing restoreScroll() except that it can be called when the navigation is not a traversal. It also allows manually performing the scroll even when not in manual scroll mode.

Motivation

When initially desiging restoreScroll(), we were thinking (as the name implies) of restoring scroll position during a traversal. However, web developers may want to precisely control the timing of scroll during a non-traversal same-document navigation. See https://github.com/WICG/navigation-api/issues/237

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://github.com/WICG/navigation-api/pull/239
• Firefox: No signal — https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/543 remains open as the positions request for the original API.
• Safari: No signal — https://www.mail-archive.com/webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org/msg30257.html remains open as the positions request for the original API.
• Web developers: Positive — https://github.com/WICG/navigation-api/issues/237 came out of discussions with web developers.
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1336000

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