How to smooth scroll to page anchor in angular 4 without plugins properly?

Question

What I want to achieve is a click to and do a smooth scroll to bottom / specified div area which i define with hashtag just like i think it should be like this.

here is the live example in the w3school example which is written for JQuery: https://www.w3schools.com/jquery/tryit.asp?filename=tryjquery_eff_animate_smoothscroll

What I do is peek from this answer: Angular2 Routing with Hashtag to page anchor

but i don't really understand the answer, the answer is looked like this :

this part is HTML part :

<a [routerLink]="['somepath']" fragment="Test">Jump to 'Test' anchor </a>

and below this, the router.navigate is where should I put the code? component.ts right? but how do i access this function? should i implement (click)?

this._router.navigate( ['/somepath', id ], {fragment: 'test'});

and below this, i get it, which it should write in my component.ts :

** Add Below code to your component to scroll**

  import {ActivatedRoute} from '@angular/router'; // <-- do not forget to import

  private fragment: string;

  constructor(private route: ActivatedRoute { }

  ngOnInit() {
    this.route.fragment.subscribe(fragment => { this.fragment = fragment; });
  }

  ngAfterViewInit(): void {
    try {
      document.querySelector('#' + this.fragment).scrollIntoView();
    } catch (e) { }
  }

what is the "somepath" mean? I should add a route in my routes.ts right? usually, i add a new path in here for example like this :

export const routes: Routes = [
  { path: '', redirectTo: '/home', pathMatch: 'full' },
  { path: 'product', redirectTo: '/product' },
  ...homeRoutes,
  ...productRoutes
];

can anyone provide me with full example code in HTML, routes, and component?

Answer 1

I was looking for a similar solution and tried to use the ngx-scroll-to package and found that its not working in latest version of angular (angular 6+) so decided to look into other option and found a solution which uses the browser's native scrollIntoView and this seems to be the best solution so far

HTML code :

<button (click)="scrollToElement(target)"></button>
<div #target>Your target</div>

Ts code :

scrollToElement($element): void {
    console.log($element);
    $element.scrollIntoView({behavior: "smooth", block: "start", inline: "nearest"});
  }