Restoring page scroll position with jQuery

Question

I have a page operation that uses something like:

$(\'#thetable tbody\').replaceWith(newtbody);

in an ajax callback. Sometimes, if the user

Answer 1

Try to use .html() instead of .replaceWith():

$('#thetable tbody').html( newtbody.html() );.

I don't know about possible performance bottlenecks here, but it did the trick for me when I was trying to preserve the scroll position of a div, and it seems to do well with the scroll position of the entire page as well.