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Posted by Raffi on 10/31/06 01:28
Ben C wrote:
> On 2006-10-27, Raffi <thegrizzzly@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have an application screen with a CSS scroll area. Users click links
> > in the scroll area which open small popup windows to enter data. When
> > the data is submitted, the popup reloads the opener to update the page
> > and closes itself. However when the parent page is updated, the div
> > scrolls back to the top. Is there a way to have CSS remember the
> > vertical scroll position and go back to it when the page is reloaded?
> > Similar to document.body.scrollTop in Javascript.
>
> I don't think there is a CSS-only way.
>
> You can do this with fragment urls if it's the main document we're
> scrolling. If somewhere near the link they clicked you put
>
> <a name="foo"></a>
>
> And then have the popup reload the page using url#foo. They won't be
> exactly where they were, but somewhere near it. Might not work in all
> browsers.
>
> But in your case, we're talking about a div with overflow: scroll. You
> can experiment with fragments, I don't know if that will work.
>
> Can you even get the scroll offset with JS for elements other than body?
Thanks, I'll try that. Unfortunately JS scroll seems to apply to the
body of the page only.
Raffi
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