Autoscroll in Angular 2

Question

I\'m experiencing an issue with Angular 2 where changing from one route to another does not automatically scroll to the top of the new view. I realize that Angular 1 allowed

Answer 1

I posted this in the issue thread, but I'll post it again here.

My team has been using what the angular team uses on this repo on angular.io. Just make a service and inject it like usual. Then, on ngAfterViewInit on each page you want this behavior, just call this.[scroll service variable name].scrollToTop(). Finally, you'll need to add this to the top of in index.html:

Service Code:

import { Injectable, Inject } from '@angular/core';
import { PlatformLocation } from '@angular/common';
import { DOCUMENT } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import {fromEvent} from 'rxjs/observable/fromEvent';

export const topMargin = 16;
/**
 * A service that scrolls document elements into view
 */
@Injectable()
export class ScrollService {

  private _topOffset: number | null;
  private _topOfPageElement: Element;

  // Offset from the top of the document to bottom of any static elements
  // at the top (e.g. toolbar) + some margin
  get topOffset() {
    if (!this._topOffset) {
      const toolbar = this.document.querySelector('md-toolbar.app-toolbar');
      this._topOffset = (toolbar && toolbar.clientHeight || 0) + topMargin;
    }
    return this._topOffset;
  }

  get topOfPageElement() {
    if (!this._topOfPageElement) {
      this._topOfPageElement = this.document.getElementById('top-of-page') || this.document.body;
    }
    return this._topOfPageElement;
  }

  constructor(
      @Inject(DOCUMENT) private document: any,
      private location: PlatformLocation) {
    // On resize, the toolbar might change height, so "invalidate" the top offset.
    fromEvent(window, 'resize').subscribe(() => this._topOffset = null);
  }

  /**
   * Scroll to the element with id extracted from the current location hash fragment.
   * Scroll to top if no hash.
   * Don't scroll if hash not found.
   */
  scroll() {
    const hash = this.getCurrentHash();
    const element: HTMLElement = hash
        ? this.document.getElementById(hash)
        : this.topOfPageElement;
    this.scrollToElement(element);
  }

  /**
   * Scroll to the element.
   * Don't scroll if no element.
   */
  scrollToElement(element: Element) {
    if (element) {
      element.scrollIntoView();

      if (window && window.scrollBy) {
        // Scroll as much as necessary to align the top of `element` at `topOffset`.
        // (Usually, `.top` will be 0, except for cases where the element cannot be scrolled all the
        //  way to the top, because the viewport is larger than the height of the content after the
        //  element.)
        window.scrollBy(0, element.getBoundingClientRect().top - this.topOffset);

        // If we are very close to the top (<20px), then scroll all the way up.
        // (This can happen if `element` is at the top of the page, but has a small top-margin.)
        if (window.pageYOffset < 20) {
          window.scrollBy(0, -window.pageYOffset);
        }
      }
    }
  }

  /** Scroll to the top of the document. */
  scrollToTop() {
    this.scrollToElement(this.topOfPageElement);
  }

  /**
   * Return the hash fragment from the `PlatformLocation`, minus the leading `#`.
   */
  private getCurrentHash() {
    return this.location.hash.replace(/^#/, '');
  }
}