Vue Tip: Scroll to Top When Navigating to a New Route

When using client-side routing using Vue Router we may want to scroll to the top when navigating to a new route or preserve the scrolling position of history entries.

Vue Router allows us to customize the scroll behavior on route navigation completely.

When creating the router instance, we can provide the scrollBehavior function:

const router = new VueRouter({
  routes: [...],
  scrollBehavior (to, from, savedPosition) {
    return { x: 0, y: 0 }
  }
})

The following code scrolls to the top of the page for all route navigations:

scrollBehavior (to, from, savedPosition) {
  return { x: 0, y: 0 }
}

To achieve a native-like behavior when navigating with back/forward buttons we can return savedPosition:

scrollBehavior (to, from, savedPosition) {
  if (savedPosition) {
    return savedPosition
  } else {
    return { x: 0, y: 0 }
  }
}

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