Tables don't scroll back to top on page change

[mcdemarco]

I investigated the failure of tables to scroll to top on pagination because I was surprised it wasn't happening. I haven't seen anyone defend pagination without scrolling to the top of the new page as a desirable UX. Unfortunately, there's a won't-fix bug for it in TanStack tables, which we're using (#772). So I'm documenting it for the record.

The suggested workarounds are unsatisfactory because we have a lot of tables we'd have to edit, and, because we have multiple tables on a page, we can't just scroll to the top of <tbody> (which is the equivalent of the suggestions involving a class name). I found a more general react-hacking workaround, for a similar component with a similar won't-fix scrolling problem: #902, which might work for us. (Even though the commenter says it scrolls to the top of the page, it looks like it scrolls to the top of the table.)

I couldn't find a different table component that does this out-of-the-box.

[Perlkonig]

Many thanks for your research here. I will look more closely at the links when I can.