Jul 03 2020 09:37 AM - edited Jul 03 2020 10:30 AM
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 long thread, it ends up being uncomfortable having to scroll the entire page
Jul 03 2020 10:28 AM - edited Jul 03 2020 10:37 AM
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
Jul 03 2020 12:17 PM
Jul 03 2020 02:36 PM
Jul 04 2020 09:59 AM
Aug 04 2020 11:51 AM
Aug 04 2020 11:55 AM
@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.
Aug 04 2020 11:58 AM
Aug 31 2020 09:02 AM
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.
Aug 31 2020 09:06 AM
Aug 31 2020 09:52 AM
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
Aug 31 2020 09:56 AM
@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.
Aug 31 2020 10:10 AM
Thank you @Allen for your return
I understand that some implementations can break existing functionality
It's good to know that you guys are going to work to put it back
Sep 29 2020 05:54 AM
Sep 29 2020 06:00 AM
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
Sep 29 2020 06:04 AM
Sep 29 2020 06:12 AM
Hello @HotCakeX
This is a feedback site where the team will discuss feedback
They are not required to implement the feature
But everyone can give their feedback
I gave my feedback, they saw it is interesting
Some feedbacks are very good, others not so much
But in the end it is the team that will decide this
Don't worry, we, the ones who always give feedback, will not decide things for them
Sep 29 2020 07:33 AM