Scroll into view: scroll position end vs. center

[christian-bromann]

The spec currently says that before interacting with an element, it needs to be scrolled into view:

To scroll into view an element perform the following steps only if the element is not already in view:

Let options be the following ScrollIntoViewOptions:

Logical scroll position "block"
"end"
Logical scroll position "inline"
"nearest"

I would like to propose to change the position block from end to center given that many applications have fixed positioned elements at the bottom the screen, e.g.

• a footer element
• a cookie compliance model (e.g. https://amazone.de/de-de/)
• some sort of check out modal (e.g. https://coffee-cart.netlify.app/)

I'ld argue scrolling the element into the center of the viewpoint has higher chances that there are less elements that could be blocking the interaction causing element click intercepted errors.

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