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eguif
Jul 03, 2020Steel Contributor
Add "Back to top" on all microsoft tech community pages
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 page If it’s a very l...
TheShaunSaw
Aug 31, 2020Silver Contributor
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.
This conversation now seems to be a Community Idea, can we move it to the Community Ideas space.
eguif
Aug 31, 2020Steel Contributor
- AllenAug 31, 2020
Community Manager
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