Scroll to element on click in Angular 4

Question

You could do it like this:

<button (click)="scroll(target)"></button>
<div #target>Your target</div>

and then in your component:

scroll(el: HTMLElement) {
    el.scrollIntoView();
}

Edit: I see comments stating that this no longer works due to the element being undefined. I created a StackBlitz example in Angular 7 and it still works. Can someone please provide an example where it does not work?

Here is how I did it using Angular 4.

Template

<div class="col-xs-12 col-md-3">
  <h2>Categories</h2>
  <div class="cat-list-body">
    <div class="cat-item" *ngFor="let cat of web.menu | async">
      <label (click)="scroll('cat-'+cat.category_id)">{{cat.category_name}}</label>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

add this function to the Component.

scroll(id) {
  console.log(`scrolling to ${id}`);
  let el = document.getElementById(id);
  el.scrollIntoView();
}

In Angular 7 works perfect

HTML

<button (click)="scroll(target)">Click to scroll</button>
<div #target>Your target</div>

In component

scroll(el: HTMLElement) {
    el.scrollIntoView({behavior: 'smooth'});
}

There is actually a pure javascript way to accomplish this without using setTimeout or requestAnimationFrame or jQuery.

In short, find the element in the scrollView that you want to scroll to, and use scrollIntoView.

el.scrollIntoView({behavior:"smooth"});

Here is a plunkr.

Jon has the right answer and this works in my angular 5 and 6 projects.

If I wanted to click to smoothly scroll from navbar to footer:

<button (click)="scrollTo('.footer')">ScrolltoFooter</button>
<footer class="footer">some code</footer>

scrollTo(className: string):void {
   const elementList = document.querySelectorAll('.' + className);
   const element = elementList[0] as HTMLElement;
   element.scrollIntoView({ behavior: 'smooth' });
}

Because I wanted to scroll back to the header from the footer, I created a service that this function is located in and injected it into the navbar and footer components and passed in 'header' or 'footer' where needed. just remember to actually give the component declarations the class names used:

<app-footer class="footer"></app-footer>