Angular 5 Scroll to top on every Route click

Question

I am using angular 5. I have a dashboard where I have few sections with small content and few sections with so large content that I am facing a problem when changing router

Answer 1

Although @Vega provides the direct answer to your question, there are issues. It breaks the browser's back/forward button. If you're user clicks the browser back or forward button, they lose their place and gets scrolled way at the top. This can be a bit of a pain for your users if they had to scroll way down to get to a link and decided to click back only to find the scrollbar had been reset to the top.

Here's my solution to the problem.

export class AppComponent implements OnInit {
  isPopState = false;

  constructor(private router: Router, private locStrat: LocationStrategy) { }

  ngOnInit(): void {
    this.locStrat.onPopState(() => {
      this.isPopState = true;
    });

    this.router.events.subscribe(event => {
      // Scroll to top if accessing a page, not via browser history stack
      if (event instanceof NavigationEnd && !this.isPopState) {
        window.scrollTo(0, 0);
        this.isPopState = false;
      }

      // Ensures that isPopState is reset
      if (event instanceof NavigationEnd) {
        this.isPopState = false;
      }
    });
  }
}