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I am working with an Angular 6 project in which I have disabled/removed hash-location-strategy which removes # from URL.

due to this change the link having:

<li routerLinkActive="active"> <a [routerLink]="['/settings']">Contact Settings</a> <ul class="child-link-sub"> <li> <a href="#contactTypes">Contact Types</a> </li> </ul> </li>

is no more working it just skips the current components URL and puts #contactTypes after localhost.

I found this github issue which should solve the issue using

<a [routerLink]="['/settings/']" fragment="contactTypes" >Contact Types</a>

which puts #contactTypes at the end of the URL but it doesn't scroll to the top of the browser.

Source: https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/6595

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Angular 6.1 comes with an option called anchorScrolling that lives in router module's ExtraOptions. As the anchorScrolling definition says:

Configures if the router should scroll to the element when the url has a fragment.

'disabled' -- does nothing (default).

'enabled' -- scrolls to the element. This option will be the default in the future.

Anchor scrolling does not happen on 'popstate'. Instead, we restore the position that we stored or scroll to the top.

You can use it like that:

const routerOptions: ExtraOptions = { useHash: false, anchorScrolling: 'enabled', // ...any other options you'd like to use }; // then just import your RouterModule with these options RouterModule.forRoot(MY_APP_ROUTES, routerOptions)
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Thanks for this answer. What I missed was that you have to use routerLink="./" fragment="anchorName" you can not use href="#anchorName"
Also, this only works on the first click. Does not work on the 2nd.
For this to work on the 2nd click, you need to add onSameUrlNavigation: 'reload' option in the routerOptions.
To get this solution to work I had to also add angular.io/api/router/ExtraOptions#scrollPositionRestoration
^^^ Confirmed, this does work in Angular 11 too. All options mentioned above work too, i.e. anchorScrolling: 'enabled', onSameUrlNavigation: 'reload', scrollPositionRestoration: 'enabled'.
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I was looking for a similar solution and tried to use the ngx-scroll-to package and found that its not working in latest version of angular so decided to look into other option and found that we can use scrollIntoView

HTML code : 

<button (click)="scrollToElement(target)"></button> <div #target>Your target</div>

Ts code :

 scrollToElement($element): void { console.log($element); $element.scrollIntoView({behavior: "smooth", block: "start", inline: "nearest"}); }
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Thanks, your answer is absolute good and easy to understand with simple and short code
can you provide for dynamic linking? There are other answers for this purpose but code is not simple
This is not ideal, because it does not provide the user with a link that they can share with others, such as "example.org/help#installing".
@ANeves Yes , "This is not ideal" right now, but that feature achorScrolling was not available when i answered the question. since angular 6.1 was released later .This solution may be helpful for those who work in older version of angular . Its great that solutions are evolving with every new version of angular
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This worked for me (I'm using Angular 12.1.3):

On the HTML template:

<a (click)="scrollTo('anchorId')">Scroll to another position</a>

Pass the id of the element you want to scroll to (without the hashtag symbol #) to the function.

Then, on Typescript, use .scrollIntoView to make the browser scroll to the position of that element.

scrollTo(element: any): void { (document.getElementById(element) as HTMLElement).scrollIntoView({behavior: "smooth", block: "start", inline: "nearest"}); }
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In the HTML template: <div id="anchorId">
also works on v17.0.8
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For accessibility reasons I had to a link at the beginning of the document to provide direct access to the content to user using a screen reader, skipping that way parts of the page repeating from page to page.

As I needed the link to stay focusable (preferably keeping the href attribute), as I was actually outside the app-root or any component (still solution works inside a component), to do that I used simple good old fashion html and javascript :

<a href="./#content" onclick="event.preventDefault(); location.hash='content';" class="content-shortcut" title="Access page content directly" i18n-title aria-label="Access page content directly" i18n-label>Access page content directly</a> <style> .content-shortcut { position: absolute; opacity: 0; height: 0px; font-size: 1px; } .content-shortcut:focus, .content-shortcut:active { position: relative; opacity: 1; height: auto; font-size: 1em; display: block; color: black; background: white; } </style>
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this is what i have to do as well, thanks for the post
The best solution for meeting WCAG requirement to skip main navigation. Very simple and elegant. Thanks!
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This is for Angular 9, but, I am sure the community will benefit this,

You can use Location in the @angular/common to get the current path.

Let's say you have the following element with an id to focus

<div id="bring-me-to-the-focus">

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import { Location } from '@angular/common'; constructor(private location: Location) { } this.location.path() + '#bring-me-to-the-focus';

I am sure this will help someone :)

Cheers.

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I don't think this is necessary since router provide this feature with anchorScrolling and onSameUrlNavigation
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As pointed out by Nitin Avula in a comment, using routerLink for a hash anchor only works if you are navigating to a different route or have onSameUrlNavigation enabled in your router config.

A way to get round this is to get rid of routerLink and instead use this.router.navigate in your *.component.ts file with the fragment parameter:

HTML -

<a (click)="scrollToContactTypes()">Contact Types</a>

TypeScript -

constructor(private router: Router) { } scrollToContactTypes() { this.router.onSameUrlNavigation = "reload"; this.router.navigate(["/settings"], { fragment: "contactTypes" }).finally(() => { this.router.onSameUrlNavigation = "ignore"; // Restore config after navigation completes }); }
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Interesting answer if you're pretending to allow onSameUrlNavigation = "reload" for some reason IDK
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use ngx page scroll

 <a pageScroll href="#awesomePart">Take me to the awesomeness</a> <h2 id="awesomePart">This is where the awesome happens</h2>
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Nice answer, it's working well. If you are in the /home page for example, you need to do href="home#anchor". +1
You do not need a library for that, this behavior is included in the angular router.
@Machado yes you are right we just need to add ` anchorScrolling: 'enabled'` in app routing module inside ExtraOptions for forRoot
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You need to use hash routing strategy to enable the hash scrolling.

you need to give second argument as an object like RouterModule.forRoot([],{useHash:true}}. It will work.

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hash strategy deals with hashes as routes, isn't it so?

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