jquery - keep window from changing scroll position while prepending items to a list?

Question

I have a page that displays messages and I want it to work just like Facebook, but without the lazy loader. Messages are displayed in chronological order, most recent last.<

Answer 1

You could also keep the scroll position based on the offset to the bottom of the page/element.

var ScrollFromBottom = $(document).height() - $(window).scrollTop();

//ajax - add messages -- geenrate html code then add to dom

//set scroll position
$(window).scrollTop($(document).height() - ScrollFromBottom);