# How does one scroll to the bottom of a thread **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 29, 2021, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-scroll-to-the-bottom-of-a-thread/945217 "2021-06-29T01:05:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-scroll-to-the-bottom-of-a-thread/945217/1 "2021-06-29T01:05:46Z")
… without scrolling to the bottom of the thread? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-scroll-to-the-bottom-of-a-thread/945217/2 "2021-06-29T01:19:00Z")
You mean like how do you get to the end of the thread quickly? If you’re on a computer (as opposed to a phone) grab the slider on the right…the slider next to the posts, not the slider for the browser, and drag it down to the bottom. ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-scroll-to-the-bottom-of-a-thread/945217/3 "2021-06-29T01:29:25Z")
You can also just click at the top or bottom of that scroll, or even on the date/time at the top and bottom of it. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-scroll-to-the-bottom-of-a-thread/945217/4 "2021-06-29T01:30:00Z")
(grumbling) Teach your grandfather to suck eggs, why dontcha?. That’s fine if there are six posts in a thread, but it’s utterly useless if there are a thousand. It leaves me scrolling for twenty minutes. You get to the top by clicking on the title. Is there a similar shortcut to get to the end? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-scroll-to-the-bottom-of-a-thread/945217/5 "2021-06-29T01:36:30Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > That’s fine if there are six posts in a thread, but it’s utterly useless if there are a thousand. It leaves me scrolling for twenty minutes. You get to the top by clicking on the title. Is there a similar shortcut to get to the end? Drag (click and hold onto) that slider, and pull it all the way to the bottom. In my experience, it usually takes two tries to get it to actually _go_ to the most recent posts, but it does work. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-scroll-to-the-bottom-of-a-thread/945217/6 "2021-06-29T01:36:43Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > That’s fine if there are six posts in a thread, but it’s utterly useless if there are a thousand. It leaves me scrolling for twenty minutes. It shouldn’t. I just picked the first big thread (Any WWE fans in the audience, with over 9k posts) and I scrolled from top to bottom in as much time as it took to move my mouse a few inches. To be clear, you should be grabbing the slider and moving it, not using a scroll wheel on your mouse or, again, not using the slider for the browser window, which is what I suspect you’re doing if getting to the end of a long thread takes more then a second. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-scroll-to-the-bottom-of-a-thread/945217/7 "2021-06-29T01:37:22Z")
Look at your OP. See the « last reply » thing? Click on the icon of the poster and it takes you to the last reply. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-scroll-to-the-bottom-of-a-thread/945217/8 "2021-06-29T01:40:20Z")
On the thread slider on the right, the bottom ‘number’ will tell you when the last post was entered. Like ‘1m ago’ or ‘1h ago’, or ‘Jun 25’. Click on that number and you will be taken to the last post. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-scroll-to-the-bottom-of-a-thread/945217/9 "2021-06-29T01:42:49Z")
My first post was for when you’re in the OP. If you’re in a thread later on in the thread, click on the box with post numbers at the bottom right. In addition to opening the slider, it brings up a box on the left that says « Jump to ». Click in that box and it opens to an option where you can fill in « post # x of y ». Type in « y » and it takes you to the last post in the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-scroll-to-the-bottom-of-a-thread/945217/10 "2021-06-29T01:46:36Z")
On my PC, hitting Ctrl+Home or Ctrl +End takes me to the top or bottom. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-scroll-to-the-bottom-of-a-thread/945217/11 "2021-06-29T01:56:51Z")
Ctrl Home works but Ctrl End doesn’t. Some of the others offered here work or not. Weird computer and weird OS (HP and Win 10). 😉 Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-scroll-to-the-bottom-of-a-thread/945217/12 "2021-06-29T03:59:04Z")
Alt [down arrow] also works on my Chromebook. (Just including it here in case someone else is asking the same question at some point.) ---
**Author:** ![Acierocolotl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acierocolotl/32/6241_2.png) [@Acierocolotl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acierocolotl)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-scroll-to-the-bottom-of-a-thread/945217/13 "2021-06-29T04:10:39Z")
I just hit the “end” button in that little 2x3 keyboard zone. PC keyboard. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-scroll-to-the-bottom-of-a-thread/945217/14 "2021-06-29T07:01:11Z")
I Hate and Fear this Brave New World! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-scroll-to-the-bottom-of-a-thread/945217/15 "2021-06-29T14:46:02Z")
Command+down arrow. ---
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/codinghorror/32/4242_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2021, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-scroll-to-the-bottom-of-a-thread/945217/16 "2021-06-30T00:58:15Z")
Just end is all you need, no other modifiers. Press ? to get a complete list of keyboard shortcuts. To _enter_ a topic at the bottom (she went in through the out door), try clicking or tapping the reply count in the topic list. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2021, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-scroll-to-the-bottom-of-a-thread/945217/17 "2021-06-30T01:13:39Z")
My Chromebook doesn’t have an ‘end’ key. Neither does my iPhone. ---
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/codinghorror/32/4242_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2021, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-scroll-to-the-bottom-of-a-thread/945217/18 "2021-06-30T02:05:33Z")
Does it have a # key? There’s another option. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2021, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-scroll-to-the-bottom-of-a-thread/945217/19 "2021-06-30T02:09:04Z")
Shift # opens the jump box I mentioned erarlier. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2021, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-scroll-to-the-bottom-of-a-thread/945217/20 "2021-06-30T14:46:26Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > How does one scroll to the bottom of a thread … without scrolling to the bottom of the thread? As pointed out [in a previous thread on the subject](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-really-have-to-scroll-all-the-way-to-the-bottom-manually-on-my-cell-phone-to-put-in-a-new-post-in-the-thread/941911), under each OP is a button marked “last reply”; click it and your browser will be instantly transported to the bottom of that thread. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-scroll-to-the-bottom-of-a-thread/945217.md?page=2)