autoscroll

Better management of the the scroll position of the Lovelace views while navigating in Home Assistant.

Default behaviour	Autoscroll on

When one navigates from one view to another in Home Assistant, sometimes the new page keeps the same scroll position from the previous page (specially subviews). This plugin changes this behaviour, it allows one to configure which views or subviews will automatically scroll to the top of the page when they are rendered and it also allows one to keep scroll position that a page had when navigating back through the history.

Installation

You can install the plugin in two ways, through HACS or Manually:

Installation through HACS (recommended)

1. In the Frontend section of HACS hit the Explore and download repositories button in the bottom right of the page.

2. Search for Autoscroll and install it.

3. If using yaml mode or if HACS doesn‘t automatically add it, you'll need to add it as a resource. (check Add the plugin as a resource section)

Manual installation

1. Doanload the latest version of autoscroll from the releases page and place the autoscroll.js file under your config/www folder.

2. Add the plugin as a resource

Add the plugin as a resource

yaml mode users may add it to their configuration.yaml file. Non yaml mode, or storage mode users can find resources in their sidebar under "Settings" > "Dashboards" (Click on the three-dots button located on the top right of the page) > "Resources"

resources:
  # To avoid the resource being cached, when you upgrade to a new version, update also the version number parameter at the end of the url
  - url: /hacsfiles/autoscroll/autoscroll.js?v=1.0.0
    type: module

Configuration

You can place the configuration in multiple places, mainly in URL parameters or in the yaml configuration of the dashboard.

Configuration through URL parameters

URL parameter	Description
?autoscroll=smooth	Scrolls to the top of the view/subview with smooth behaviour when navigating to it
?autoscroll=instant	Scrolls to the top of the view/subview with instant behaviour when navigating to it
?autoscroll=disabled	Disables automatic scrolling overriding any configuration placed in the yaml configuration
&history_keep_scroll	If autoscroll is not disabled, it keeps the previous scroll of a page when navigating back to it through the history

Configuration through yaml

You can place the configuration in the whole dashboard (all the views in that dashboard will have automatic scrolling), or in a specific view/subview (only that view/subview will have automatic scrolling).

For yaml mode users, just go to the yaml dashboard file in which you want to add the configuration. For non yaml mode users (a.k.a. storage mode), go to the specific dashboard, click on the three-dots button located on the top-right of the header, select Edit dashboard, click again on the three dots button, and select Raw configuration editor.

In the whole dashboard

You need to place the configuration at the begining of the yaml file:

autoscroll: ## <--- here
  behavior: smooth
  history_keep_scroll: true
title: Dashboard title
views:
  ...

In a specific view/subview

Search in the yaml file the section respective to the view/subview (you can recognise the view for its title or its path). Place the configuration in the root of the view (before the cards)

title: Dashboard title
views:
  ...
  - theme: theme of the view
    title: title of the view
    path: path of the view
    badges: []
    autoscroll: ## <--- here
      behavior: smooth
      history_keep_scroll: true
    cards:
      ...

Config	Description
behavior: smooth	Scrolls to the top of the view/subview with smooth behaviour when navigating to it
behavior: instant	Scrolls to the top of the view/subview with instant behaviour when navigating to it
behavior: disabled	Avoids automatic scrolling overriding any configuration placed in the dashboard configuration
history_keep_scroll	If the behavior is not disabled and this parameter is true, it keeps the previous scroll of a page when navigating back to it through the history