Fixed "Back to Top" link bug - #6512

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Hi @deini - thanks for sending in this PR and for digging down to find the template where the back-to-top link is. Unfortunately this is not quite the right fix. First, the {{ location.href }} interpolation binding will always evaluate to null since such expressions do not have access to the global namespace and are relative to the local AngularJS scope.

Despite this your fix appears to give us the required functionality but not if you are currently browsing to a URL that contains a hash, e.g. http://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng#service. When you click the link it just returns to where this tag was. I believe the intention of return to top links is literally to get to the top of the page.

So the real fix is to notice that the anchor has a directive on it: back-to-top. Looking in the docs/app/directive.js file shows us this directive. The fix is to change the hash part of the location in there before triggering the anchorScroll.

@petebacondarwin Thanks for your detailed response!

@deini - you're welcome. Do keep finding and fixing issues!