diff --git a/packages/next/client/components/layout-router.tsx b/packages/next/client/components/layout-router.tsx
index af60ee6aa75a07e..5a4e27caa5bc061 100644
--- a/packages/next/client/components/layout-router.tsx
+++ b/packages/next/client/components/layout-router.tsx
@@ -240,7 +240,9 @@ export function InnerLayoutRouter({
 
   // Ensure root layout is not wrapped in a div as the root layout renders `<html>`
   return rootLayoutIncluded ? (
-    <div ref={focusAndScrollElementRef}>{subtree}</div>
+    <div ref={focusAndScrollElementRef} data-nextjs-scroll-focus-boundary={''}>
+      {subtree}
+    </div>
   ) : (
     subtree
   )
