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Scroll-to-Top

also known as Back-to-top button, Jump to top

A scroll-to-top button is a small floating control, often in the bottom-right corner, that appears after the user scrolls down and jumps the page back to the top when clicked. It spares users from manually scrolling up on lengthy pages. It usually shows an upward arrow icon.

Don't confuse it with
A scroll-to-top button only returns to the top of the page; a FAB (floating action button) triggers the screen's primary creative action, such as composing a message.
In the wild
The upward-arrow button appearing on long blog articles.
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