# Is there a way to quickly move to the top or bottom of a page?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-quickly-move-to-the-top-or-bottom-of-a-page/839366
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**Created:** [August 28, 2019, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-quickly-move-to-the-top-or-bottom-of-a-page/839366 "2019-08-28T16:36:56Z")
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2019, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-quickly-move-to-the-top-or-bottom-of-a-page/839366/1 "2019-08-28T16:36:56Z")
I’m using a tablet without a keyboard.
ETA: OF a page, obviously. The on-screen keyboard sometimes predicts and corrects poorly.
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2019, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-quickly-move-to-the-top-or-bottom-of-a-page/839366/2 "2019-08-28T16:48:30Z")
At the very least give us the OS of the tablet. And it does have a model name/number doesn’t it?
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### Author:  [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2019, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-quickly-move-to-the-top-or-bottom-of-a-page/839366/3 "2019-08-28T18:09:26Z")
AFAIK only if you have some sort of scroll feature built in.
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### Author:  [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2019, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-quickly-move-to-the-top-or-bottom-of-a-page/839366/4 "2019-08-28T18:20:33Z")
**Moderator Note**
> [@dropzone](#):
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> ETA: OF a page, obviously. The on-screen keyboard sometimes predicts and corrects poorly.
Thread title fixed.
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### Author:  [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2019, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-quickly-move-to-the-top-or-bottom-of-a-page/839366/5 "2019-08-28T18:31:06Z")
Depending on the app, there may be a scrollbar on the far right that works like a typical scrollbar. You put your finger on the shuttle and slide it to the top or bottom of the screen to go to the top or bottom of the page. Other than that, rapidly swiping your finger up or down on the screen often activates a fast scroll, but it may take several swipes to get all the way.
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2019, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-quickly-move-to-the-top-or-bottom-of-a-page/839366/6 "2019-08-28T18:59:36Z")
> [@ftg](#):
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> At the very least give us the OS of the tablet. And it does have a model name/number doesn’t it?
This is a Kindle Fire 7. Android of some recent sort. No scroll bars or I’d use them.
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2019, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-quickly-move-to-the-top-or-bottom-of-a-page/839366/7 "2019-08-28T19:04:40Z")
You may be able to use bookmarklets in your browser.
Scroll to bottom:
javascript:scroll(0,document.getElementsByTagName(‘body’)%5B0%5D.scrollHeight);
Scroll to top:
javascript:window.scrollTo(0,0);
I’ve used these with success on both iOS and Android devices, but they don’t work in all browsers.
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### Author:  [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2019, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-quickly-move-to-the-top-or-bottom-of-a-page/839366/8 "2019-09-05T02:59:41Z")
> [@dropzone](#):
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> This is a Kindle Fire 7. Android of some recent sort. No scroll bars or I’d use them.
I have fire 8, and yeah, I would _love_ it if they’d add two options to the Forum Jump dropdown: Top of page, bottom of page. I just have to keep scrolling manually. Scrolling while it’s already scrolling multiplies the speed exponentially, but the problem is this fails on the SDMB when first loading a page partly because of ads and partly because it just doesn’t download a full SDMB thread page very quickly.
Note that I can technically see the scrollbar, but only barely, as only the left few pixels of it show up on the very far right of my screen. Not enough to actually use, sadly.
With the fire, I occasionally move my stylus in a way that immediately scrolls the page I’m on all the way to the bottom, but I’ve never been able to replicate that intentionally. I suspect it’s some kind of “mouse gesture” command, but I’ve not been able to google any details.
The one feature I can’t figure out to save my life and miss sorely is text search. I can’t figure out any way to search for text on a web page, and I hate that I can’t do that.
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### Author:  [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2019, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-quickly-move-to-the-top-or-bottom-of-a-page/839366/9 "2019-09-05T03:09:24Z")
> [@cochrane](#):
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> You may be able to use bookmarklets in your browser.
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> Scroll to bottom:
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> javascript:scroll(0,document.getElementsByTagName(‘body’)%5B0%5D.scrollHeight);
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> Scroll to top:
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> javascript:window.scrollTo(0,0);
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> I’ve used these with success on both iOS and Android devices, but they don’t work in all browsers.
Where do you enter/place/record these?
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### Author:  [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2019, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-quickly-move-to-the-top-or-bottom-of-a-page/839366/10 "2019-09-05T03:11:14Z")
Followup for **cochrane** :
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#):
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> Where do you enter/place/record these?
Keeping in mind that the OP (and I) are stuck using the Silk browser. I can’t even figure out how to change the target url for saved bookmarks. My only recourse is to delete and recreate them, and I can only recreate them by going to a page and choosing “bookmark this.” If I need to customize a bookmark’s url to make it work just right, well, sucks to be me.
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2019, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-quickly-move-to-the-top-or-bottom-of-a-page/839366/11 "2019-09-05T03:22:24Z")
Sultantheme used to provide a way to scroll to the top. But it relied on using another website, and that site upgraded and broke it.
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#):
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> Where do you enter/place/record these?
A bookmarklet is just a normal bookmark. So just create bookmark with those javascript lines as the URLs. For example, make a bookmark called “Scroll to Top” and put “javascript:scrollTo(0,0)” as the URL.)
That said, I will change one thing. The scroll to bottom URL can be simplified to “javascript:scrollTo(0,document.body.scrollHeight)”. Or even just “javascript:scrollTo(0,Number.MAX\_SAFE\_INTEGER)” (both without the quotes).
And, yes, some browsers don’t seem to provide a way to create/edit bookmarks with arbitrary URLs. The only thing you can try is to type the javascript URL directly into the URL bar, and then try to make a bookmark from there. No guarantees it will work.
Well, that or install another browser. It is possible, though Amazon made it unfortunately complicated on their devices. Problem is, I don’t know which ones will work, so I don’t want to recommend anything.
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2019, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-quickly-move-to-the-top-or-bottom-of-a-page/839366/12 "2019-09-05T03:25:04Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#):
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> Where do you enter/place/record these?
Save a new bookmark, it could be any site. Edit the bookmark. Rename it to “scroll to bottom,” then paste the bit of Javascript in place of the url, then save. Do the same for “scroll to top.” If you do it right, you only have to do it once. It’s a permanent bookmark.
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### Author:  [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2019, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-quickly-move-to-the-top-or-bottom-of-a-page/839366/13 "2019-09-05T04:37:17Z")
Hey, nice, editing silk bookmarks does appear to be possible. Will need to test, but [this looks promising](https://www.technipages.com/kindle-fire-add-delete-bookmarks).
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### Author:  [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2019, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-quickly-move-to-the-top-or-bottom-of-a-page/839366/14 "2019-09-05T09:23:59Z")
I was able to create the bookmark, but the problem now is that in the silk browser, to click a bookmark, you need to go to the View Bookmarks page. That opens a new browser tab with a list of bookmarks, meaning when you click a bookmark, the active browser tab is the bookmarks tab, not the web page you want to scroll.
It’s a clever solution but as far as I can tell right now, it won’t work for a fire tablet. (Like the OP has.)