jQuery: Scroll to the top of the page

Last update on May 30 2022 10:20:14 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

jQuery Practical exercise Part - I : Exercise-2

Scroll to the top of the page with jQuery.

Sample solution :

HTML Code :

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.1.min.js"></script>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>Scroll to the top of the page with jQuery</title>
</head>
<body>
  <p>jquery</p>
  <p>jquery</p>
  <p>jquery</p>
  <p>jquery</p>
  <p>jquery</p>
  <p>jquery</p>
  <p>jquery</p>
  <p>jquery</p>
  <p>jquery</p>
  <p>jquery</p>
  <p>jquery</p>
  <p>jquery</p>
  <p>jquery</p>
  <p>jquery</p>
  <p>jquery</p>
  <p>jquery</p>
  <p>jquery</p>
  <p>jquery</p>
  <p>jquery</p>
  <p>jquery</p>
  <p>jquery</p>
  <p>jquery</p>
  <p>jquery</p>
  <p>jquery</p>
  <p>jquery</p>
  <p>jquery</p>
  <p>jquery</p>
  <p>jquery</p>
  <p>jquery</p>
  <p>jquery</p>
  <p>jquery</p>
  <p>jquery</p>
<a href='#top'>Go Top</a>  
</body>
</html>

JavaScript Code :

$("a[href='#top']").click(function() {
  $("html, body").animate({ scrollTop: 0 }, "slow");
  return false;
});

See the Pen jquery-practical-exercise-2 by w3resource (@w3resource) on CodePen.

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