Question

I have to scroll up in a page. Therefore I put a an anchor at the correct place and then I did

window.location.href = 'http://example.org/#anchor';

This works fine with FF, Chrome, Safari and IE9. But in IE8 nothing happens (it does not scroll).

I also tried:

window.location.hash = "anchor";
window.location.hash = "#anchor";
scrollTo(0, 0);

However, IE8 just does not want to scroll. It is important that we move the focus to the anchor. A reloading is not possible.

Thanks in advance for any tipps 🙂

Answer 1

For IE 8 just use it like this, it will work:

window.location = 'http://example.org/#anchor';

Hope this helps.