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Re: In page links and the back button - expected behavior

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From: Steve Green
Date: Feb 22, 2019 10:13AM

My expectation is that the Back button would take me back to the top of the page, because that's what happens on most websites.

I find that I have two distinct behaviours for in-page navigation. Much of the time I use a mouse, in which case I might click the Back button after operating an in-page link. Other times I use keyboard navigation, in which case I would always use the Home key to return to the top. I use keyboard navigation a lot on long pages, where it is much faster to hit Page Down than it is to scroll.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd