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 use the following code to detect the scroll position.

 $(window).scroll(function (event){
    var scroll = $(window).scrollTop();
    // Do something
 });

Then store scroll in a session and when you click back do scrollTop(scroll) .