ASP.NET: Maintain Browser Scroll Position After Postback

In many applications, the screen can have many controls which cause postback events. And if the screen has any vertical scrollbars, users will typically object if the scroll position is not maintained (fair enough) and they have to scroll back down to find where they were and also to spot which changes the postback caused.

I had been mucking about with JavaScript solutions to this, which actually did work. But the easiest way is to follow one of these methods:

1. Set it programmatically

Page.MaintainScrollPositionOnPostBack = true;

2. In the page declaration:

<%@ Page MaintainScrollPositionOnPostback="true" %>

3. Or as a global setting in the web.config file, modify the pages section to add the property:

<pages maintainScrollPositionOnPostBack="true" >

Done!