Change order of comments (forum jumps to bottom)

scotty68

Ok ive played to death with this great forum, i wanted a nice looking clean forum to use on a site of mine.
im no stranger to this kind of stuff as im a web developer, But one thing is bugging me i cant fid lol.
Why when the forum loads does it jump to the bottom of the page. Id like it to stay at the top.
I notice this on several themes and showcase sites.
thanks

422

jumps to last read comment look at the # after the url, which represents the comment id

scotty68

Yes got that but it dont solve the issue, It not a big deal its just i wanted it to jump to top thats all

scotty68

thanks

Shadowdare

This isn't a fix, but it's a workaround. You can add this code somewhere in your theme:

<script type="text/javascript">
if (location.hash) {
    window.scrollTo(0, 0);

    setTimeout(function() {
        window.scrollTo(0, 0);
    }, 1);
}
</script>

This will cause the page to jump back to the top after it loads.

scotty68

Thanks ill give it a go

peregrine

if you don't want to go the last item, this will take the hashtag off of it completely and just go to the page, which since you reversed the comments with most recent on top is probably what you want.

$Configuration['Vanilla']['Comments']['AutoOffset'] = FALSE;

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if you use Shadowdare's approach --

if your forum is embedded you may need to modify shadowdare's jquery. I use both of these just in case of embed.

parent.window.scrollTo(0, 0);
window.scrollTo(0, 0);

scotty68

ok got it now thanks guys

peregrine

to belabor the point.

@422 has a nice little uparrow slider in a few of his themes

@phreak also has a nice navigational arrow on his theme.

and pagenavigtor plugin has the scrollto built into it.

And for my opinion - there seems no need for comment reverse sorting because since the added the hash tags to go directly to the last unread message assuming
$Configuration['Vanilla']['Comments']['AutoOffset'] is not in your config.php

there seems no need for it - but that is a user preference thing

which solution did you end up using?

scotty68

to be honest i tried em all and none worked, its not an issue i noticed its only on forums home page is ok. ill plod on with it. its just me im a geek and like to pull things apart lol. i liked this forum because i wanted a nice clean layout. for my fibromyalgia forum. i use ipb as a rule for my heaveir sites but there clutered. this is ideal for what i need.