Take User Back to Where They Scrolled to on previous page when clicking Browser Back Button

Question

Is it possible to take a user back to the area of a page where they scrolled down to when pressing the back button in a browser? As in --- pageA is double your screen size

Answer 1

You can do this by using session storage.

$(window).scroll(function () {
  //set scroll position in session storage
  sessionStorage.scrollPos = $(window).scrollTop();
});
var init = function () {
   //return scroll position in session storage
   $(window).scrollTop(sessionStorage.scrollPos || 0)
};
window.onload = init;