Clarify browser behaviour #8
Description
Hey! 👋 I just wanted to drop a note about something in the documentation that I think is incorrect:
If the user scrolls a list, then navigates back and forth, the browser will scroll the page to the top, but the list will still be scrolled to the position it was at when the user left the page.
Browsers can actually restore scroll positions for nested scroll containers. Here's a reduced test case to demonstrate that scroll restoration does work for non-body aka nested scroll containers: https://codepen.io/OliverJAsh/pen/bGPqyRw
Relevant specs:
- https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/browsing-the-web.html#restore-persisted-state
- https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/browsing-the-web.html#restorable-scrollable-regions
I think the issue you're referring to is what happens when an element is removed from the DOM after leaving one page and then restored when navigating back. In this case, the browser can't restore scroll because it has no way of knowing that we're remounting the same element as before. Reduced test case: https://codepen.io/OliverJAsh/pen/gONmJZM
Perhaps we could clarify this in the documentation? Or perhaps I've misunderstood 😄