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 = '';

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 :)

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/#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 :)

• javascript
• internet-explorer-8

• 1 Have you tried the ".scrollIntoView()" method on the element? – Pointy Commented Oct 13, 2011 at 12:12
• @Pointy then I would have to get the anchor element first right? I tried a similar solution with a <div id="anchor"> and then get that element and call scrollIntoView on it. It does not work :( – mkn Commented Oct 13, 2011 at 12:38
• I've used "scrollIntoView" in IE many times and it has always worked fine for me. Maybe if you could prepare a jsfiddle people could help investigate. – Pointy Commented Oct 13, 2011 at 13:39

1 Answer 1

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

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

Hope this helps.