How to scroll to bottom in react?

Question

I want to build a chat system and automatically scroll to the bottom when entering the window and when new messages come in. How do you automatically scroll to the bottom of

Answer 1

Working Example:

You can use the DOM scrollIntoView method to make a component visible in the view.

For this, while rendering the component just give a reference ID for the DOM element using ref attribute. Then use the method scrollIntoView on componentDidMount life cycle. I am just putting a working sample code for this solution. The following is a component rendering each time a message received. You should write code/methods for rendering this component.

class ChatMessage extends Component {
    scrollToBottom = (ref) => {
        this.refs[ref].scrollIntoView({ behavior: "smooth" });
    }

    componentDidMount() {
        this.scrollToBottom(this.props.message.MessageId);
    }

    render() {
        return(
            

                
Message content here...
            
        );
    }
}

Here this.props.message.MessageId is the unique ID of the particular chat message passed as props