"Skip-To" Buttons

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Posted on July 14, 2015, 4:11 p.m. by SirFowler

I was wondering. Would it be too much trouble to add a "Top of Page" and "Bottom of Page" button for the people who are on mobile devices? Or do we have to add the buttons ourselves? I know on the keyboard there's a Home and End button, but it gets pretty difficult when there are a bunch of comments and the person doesn't want to clear them.

I am currently on a Windows Phone and it doesn't have the to ability to skip to the top like it does on iPhones.

hyperlocke says... #2

To skip to a predefined anchor:

<a name="anchor">
... some stuff ...

<a href="#anchor"><button>To Anchor</button></a>

To skip to the bottom:

<button onclick="window.scrollTo(0,document.body.scrollHeight);">To Bottom</button>

To skip to the top:

<button onclick="window.scrollTo(0,0);">To Bottom</button>

You can put the first two in your deck description, the top one would have to be in a comment... very cumbersome. Adding them on the whole side probably is a good idea.

July 14, 2015 4:44 p.m.

SirFowler says... #3

Cool, thank you.

July 14, 2015 7:10 p.m.

yeaGO says... #4

Where would these live? Does anyone have any suggestions? Just for mobile or?

July 15, 2015 2:42 a.m.

yeaGO says... #5

Also, when you say 'top/bottom of page' what are you really talking about? why would someone want to go to the bottom of the page?

July 15, 2015 2:43 a.m.

SirFowler says... #6

Well, I mean a way to skip to where you actually fill out the comments instead of scrolling all the way down in order to type a comment. And if you are trying to add suggestions, you have to look at the deck to see what's in and what's not, so sometimes you need to go back and forth just to remember what to type. Well, at least I do anyways.

So I was thinking of a button within decks to skip to the comment section and vice versa.

July 15, 2015 2:50 a.m.

hyperlocke says... #7

I would implement them for all versions of the site.

You could add a link, like "Leave a comment" or something, to the end of descriptions; clicking on it would lead you to the comment box.

Under the comment box (next to formatting tips), there could be a link to the top or, maybe better, to the deck (withoud the T/O and deck headers).

July 15, 2015 6:27 a.m.

yeaGO says... #8

don't you have to read the discussion to see if it hasn't been suggested already or something?

July 15, 2015 7:14 a.m.

hyperlocke says... #9

Yeah, that's my problem with skip buttons, too. But the decks I actively cycle have 20 to 60 comments, and there are decks out there with faaaaar more than that. Nobody is going to read all that to see if a card was already suggested. Either they assume it was, or they just suggest it.

In the second case, a skip button would probably help, as scrolling though comments to get to the comment box would discourage users from leaving comments and suggestions.

July 15, 2015 7:32 a.m.

SirFowler says... #10

It's just an idea. There are some kinks that need to be worked out, but there might be a way for this to work. I wonder if there is a trial run people could use so people could get the feel of it or something.

I'm really not sure how though.

July 15, 2015 7:35 a.m.