How do I maintain scroll position in MVC?

Question

Im working on a project in MVC and have enjoyed learning about it. There are a few growing pains but once you figure them out it\'s not bad. One thing that is really simpl

Answer 1

a very not-nice way to do this is using cookies.

If you use ONE page in your MVC which handles the other pages you could a code-snippet to it that loads every page which creates a cookie (if non-existent) called "scrolltop". There are ways to have javascript automatically update this cookie when the user scrolls up or down by catching these events or watching the scrollTop value.

On a new page you just have to load the saved position and make the view scroll there in 0 milliseconds (with Mootools or any Ajax script this should be possible) and the user will be exactly where they were.

I don't know much about asp so I don't know if a method exists to anchor to a current y-position. Javascript is a fast and easy way. Anchors in HTMl could be an option if you had every element anchored and posted the anchor to other pages.