Switching to source editing scrolls to the end of the content

[Reinmar]

📝 Provide detailed reproduction steps (if any)

1. Have some visibly long content in the editor
2. Be at the beginning of it
3. Click the "Source editing" button

✔️ Expected result

The scroll either stays intact or scrolls to the top.

❌ Actual result

The scroll moves to the end of the content.

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[Reinmar]

To be checked: How it works in CKEditor 4.

[maxbarnas]

Just checked how this feature behaves in CKE4

• Default Source Editing Area (which resembles Source Editing in CKE5 the most) always scrolls to the top,
• Source Dialog always scrolls to the end of the text.

[maxbarnas]

The point # 4 explains current behavior of textarea: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/form-elements.html#dom-textarea-value