A very useful feature to get back to the top of the page.I'm browsing the various discussions of the microsoft tech community and the topic options are only at the top of the pageIf it’s a very long thread, it ends up being uncomfortable having to scroll the entire page

eguif Thanks for posting, sorry I have not had an opportunity to reply sooner. Yes your right we used to have a button on the right hand side to skip to top, the problem was we needed to add skip links for users who use keyboards and screen readers to help them navigate around the whole page. This broke our previous implementation of jump to top and so we had to remove it. We will investigate bringing it back in the fall, after Microsoft Ignite is completed. In the mean time you can always use the home button on your keyboard to jump back to the top of the page or you can make use of the skip links. Skip links work by pressing tab once the page has loaded or by editing the url with the anchor text below. Name Anchor Skip to main content #content Skip to Topic Message (The first reply in a thread) #topicMessage Skip to sidebar content #sidebarContent Skip to footer content #footerContent Skip to Primary Navigation #primaryNav So to skip to the top of this message you would take the url https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/community-discussion/add-quot-back-to-top-quot-on-all-microsoft-tech-community-pages/m-p/1623245 and change it to: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/community-discussion/add-quot-back-to-top-quot-on-all-microsoft-tech-community-pages/m-p/1623245#content Now as you can see it's going to be super simple to bring back the jump to top functionality, so I do not think it will be long after Microsoft Ignite before we can make this change 🙂 Allen

Dennis5mile Hello! Please only tag Deleted for content relevant to Edge Insiders as they won't be able to help you in any other capacity. I'm tagging Allen who would be the best person to answer this.

eguif Yeah, what ever happened to the Back to the top button we had a couple updates ago???? Seems to be missing in action......Version 85.0.564.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit)Also, just found out it is missing in "ALL" 4 versions of the New Edge. Canary, Dev, Beta, and live...Dennis5mile

Allen Dennis5mile eguif Yes, this feature would be very beneficial to the users of the Microsoft Tech Community website. Just to see this feature, I opened a Web Archive of this website and I liked the back to top button a lot and would like it to come back again to Microsoft Tech Community. EricStarker This conversation now seems to be a Community Idea, can we move it to the Community Ideas space.

TheShaunSaw Hello! I reached out to Allen to get this issue addressed as per above. I think it can stay in discussion for now. Thanks.

Add "Back to top" on all microsoft tech community pages

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HotCakeX
MVP
Sep 29, 2020
on desktop, press the HOME button. can't be easier than that.
on mobile/tablet/touch devices: just swiftly scroll from top to bottom with your finger.
- eguif
  Steel Contributor
  Sep 29, 2020
  Hello HotCakeX
  
  The back to top feature is very accessible to everyone
  
  The Home feature is also very useful
  
  Some people prefer the first option
  Other people prefer the second
  
  We cannot discard any of them
  - HotCakeX
    MVP
    Sep 29, 2020
    Well, prefer is different than "need".
    I prefer to live in Hawaii but I don't need to. get my point?
Dennis5mile
Silver Contributor
Jul 03, 2020
eguif

Yeah, what ever happened to the Back to the top button we had a couple updates ago????

Seems to be missing in action......
Version 85.0.564.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit)
Also, just found out it is missing in "ALL" 4 versions of the New Edge. Canary, Dev, Beta, and live...
Dennis5mile
- TheShaunSaw
  Silver Contributor
  Aug 31, 2020
  Allen Dennis5mile eguif
  Yes, this feature would be very beneficial to the users of the Microsoft Tech Community website. Just to see this feature, I opened a Web Archive of this website and I liked the back to top button a lot and would like it to come back again to Microsoft Tech Community.
  
  EricStarker
  This conversation now seems to be a Community Idea, can we move it to the Community Ideas space.
  - EricStarker
    Former Employee
    Aug 31, 2020
    TheShaunSaw Hello! I reached out to Allen to get this issue addressed as per above. I think it can stay in discussion for now. Thanks.
- Dennis5mile
  Silver Contributor
  Aug 04, 2020
  Deleted EricStarker
  
  Any news on this yet? Anyone on the team or the forum management?
  
  Dennis5mile
  - EricStarker
    Former Employee
    Aug 04, 2020
    Dennis5mile Hello! Please only tag Deleted for content relevant to Edge Insiders as they won't be able to help you in any other capacity. I'm tagging Allen who would be the best person to answer this.
- TheShaunSaw
  Silver Contributor
  Jul 03, 2020
  Dennis5mile
  These things are related to the website and not to the browser, so if you open any browser, you are going to see the same thing.
  - Dennis5mile
    Silver Contributor
    Jul 03, 2020
    Gee, really... guess that is why the OP posted it in the "Lounge" and not in any of the Conversation spaces since it has to do with the Microsoft Tech Community forums and not the edge browser...
    
    But what do I know, just my 20cents worth
    Dennis5mile

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