In this episode, we tackle a common problem that comes up when adding pagination to your comments section: every time you flip to the next page of comments, the browser pushes you all the way back to the top. This can be a little annoying for users, especially on longer pages.
To fix this, we walk through giving the comments section a unique ID so we can use an anchor (hash) link, and then we update the pagination links to jump straight to the comments instead of just paging the whole browser. That way, even if you have a big article or footer, when you go to the next page of comments, you'll always land with the comments still in view.
We do all of this using Blade, Laravel’s templating engine, so it’s still a traditional server-rendered approach. (If you’re using something like Livewire or Inertia, you’d probably have a better, more dynamic solution, but this keeps things nice and simple.) By the end, pagination will feel a lot smoother to your users, making for a better overall experience.