Scroll Position on Refresh, How does TeamTreehouse do it?

Hi Alejandro!

I'll look around, but I don't believe we are doing anything special. Most browsers will attempt to scroll to the previous region of the page if you reload or hit the back button.

Some things could interfere with it: like JavaScript that messes with the scroll, anchor links (the #part of the url), or loading the content in dynamically.

Are you experiencing behavior where it is not restoring the scroll state?

Jim

I was taking a team treehouse ruby quiz on my iphone and noticed when I selected an answer + submitted an answer my iphone browser maintained my exact position when the next quiz question began.

This was awesome.

I'm not report a technical issue, I was just wondering how Team Treehouse executed it so I can learn and use it on a personal project.

I think I understand your question better now.

On quizzes, we don't actually load a new page between each question, which would of course cause the page to be scrolled to the top.

Instead we use JavaScript and Ajax to change the content of the page to the new question. Since it's the same page, the scroll doesn't change.

You can read an introduction to Ajax here: http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/a-quick-guide-to-understanding-ajax

An upcoming stage of our ruby on rails social network will be utilizing Ajax

Hope that helps!

Oooooh I see. Thanks for the resources and the quick response.

Holy Smokes?! Didn't know there was a blog with resources. Thanks Again.