Is there a way to make a page start at the bottom when loaded?

Murley · Jan 11, 2002

Hello all, I'm looking for a way to use javascript to tell a page to start at the bottom when loaded. The user could then use the scroll bar to scroll back up, but i'd like it to start at the bottom.?

I havn't found anythign like this, could someone possibly provide me with a short peice of code to do this?

Any help is very appreciated. Regards,

Chris Murley
Systems Administrator\Programmer

stinkybee · Jan 12, 2002

put an anchor at the bottom of your page.

eg. <a name="bottom"></a>

then make the link to the page include the anchor. eg.

your_page.html#bottom

or reload your page with

window.location.href="your_page.html#bottom"

Murley · Jan 12, 2002

Yeah i thought about that, but these are php pages, with arguments being passed. Will anchors work with a page like:

http://test.site.com/index.php?user=sam&color=blue

Where do i specify the #bottom at ?? Regards,

Chris Murley
Systems Administrator\Programmer

LScott · Jan 14, 2002

You could try using window.scrollTo(x-axis, y-axis) in IE in a <body onload=scrollPage()> function that runs after the page is loaded. You can use an arbitrarily large number for the y-axis value (zero for the x-axis value) to make sure you reach the bottom of the page, or you could be more elegant by calculating the page height minus the window height and using that value. Good Luck!!

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Is there a way to make a page start at the bottom when loaded?

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