Window: scrollTo() method

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

Window.scrollTo() scrolls to a particular set of coordinates in the document.

Syntax

js
scrollTo(xCoord, yCoord)
scrollTo(options)

Parameters

xCoord

The pixel along the horizontal axis of the document that you want displayed in the upper left.

yCoord

The pixel along the vertical axis of the document that you want displayed in the upper left.

options

An object containing the following properties:

top

Specifies the number of pixels along the Y axis to scroll the window or element.

left

Specifies the number of pixels along the X axis to scroll the window or element.

behavior

Determines whether scrolling is instant or animates smoothly. This option is a string which must take one of the following values:

  • smooth: scrolling should animate smoothly
  • instant: scrolling should happen instantly in a single jump
  • auto: scroll behavior is determined by the computed value of scroll-behavior

Return value

None (undefined).

Examples

js
window.scrollTo(0, 1000);

Using options:

js
window.scrollTo({
  top: 100,
  left: 100,
  behavior: "smooth",
});

Notes

Window.scroll() is effectively the same as this method. For relative scrolling, see Window.scrollBy(), Window.scrollByLines(), and Window.scrollByPages().

For scrolling elements, see Element.scrollTop and Element.scrollLeft.

Specifications

Specification
CSSOM View Module
# dom-window-scrollto

Browser compatibility