Changing route doesn't scroll to top in the new page

Question

I've found some undesired, at least for me, behaviour when the route changes. In the step 11 of the tutorial http://angular.github.io/angular-phonecat/step-11/app/#/phones you can see the list of phones. If you scroll to the bottom and click on one of the latest, you can see that the scroll isn't at top, instead is kind of in the middle.

I've found this in one of my apps too and I was wondering how can I get this to scroll to the top. I can do it mannually, but I think that there should be other elegant way to do this which I don't know.

So, is there an elegant way to scroll to the top when the route changes?

Answer 1

The problem is that your ngView retains the scroll position when it loads a new view. You can instruct $anchorScroll to "scroll the viewport after the view is updated" (the docs are a bit vague, but scrolling here means scrolling to the top of the new view).

The solution is to add autoscroll="true" to your ngView element:

<div class="ng-view" autoscroll="true"></div>