Next.js sticky scroll standards (#90197)
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### What?
Adds documentation for handling sticky headers with Next.js navigation
using `scroll-padding-top`.
### Why?
Next.js's auto-scroll behavior explicitly skips sticky and fixed
positioned elements. This can cause content to appear behind sticky
headers when navigating to a hash fragment or using the `scroll` prop on
`Link`. This documentation provides a web-standards solution using CSS
`scroll-padding-top` to correctly position the scroll target.
### How?
- Added a new "Handling sticky headers with `scroll-padding-top`"
subsection to the `Link` component API reference
(`docs/01-app/03-api-reference/02-components/link.mdx`) under the
`scroll` prop.
- Added a new "Scrolling with sticky headers" example to the "Linking
and Navigating" guide
(`docs/01-app/01-getting-started/04-linking-and-navigating.mdx`).
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