How do I scroll to an element within an overflowed Div

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I have 20 list items inside of a div that can only show 5 at a time  What is a good way to scroll to item  10  and then item  20  I know the height of all the items   The scrollTo plugin does this  but its source is not super easy to understand without really getting into it  I don t want to use this plugin   Let s say I have a function that takes 2 elements  parentDiv   innerListItem  neither  innerListItem offset   top nor  innerListItem positon   top gives me the correct scrollTop for  parentDiv

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I ve adjusted Glenn Moss  answer to account for the fact that overflow div might not be at the top of the page   parentDiv scrollTop parentDiv scrollTop      innerListItem position   top - parentDiv position   top  -  parentDiv height   2     innerListItem height   2       I was using this on a google maps application with a responsive template   On resolution   800px  the list was on the left side of the map   On resolution  lt  800 the list was below the map

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After playing with it for a very long time  this is what I came up with       jQuery fn scrollTo   function  elem            var b     elem           this scrollTop b position   top   b height   - this height              and I call it like this      basketListGridHolder   scrollTo  tr data-uid      basketID

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The  innerListItem position   top is actually relative to the  scrollTop   of its first positioned ancestor  So the way to calculate the correct  parentDiv scrollTop   value is to begin by making sure that  parentDiv is positioned  If it doesn t already have an explicit position  use position  relative  The elements  innerListItem and all its ancestors up to  parentDiv need to have no explicit position  Now you can scroll to the  innerListItem with      Scroll to the top  parentDiv scrollTop  parentDiv scrollTop      innerListItem position   top       Scroll to the center  parentDiv scrollTop  parentDiv scrollTop      innerListItem position   top     -  parentDiv height   2    innerListItem height   2

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The accepted answer only works with direct children of the scrollable element  while the other answers didn t centered the child in the scrollable element  Example HTML   lt div class  quot scrollable-box quot  gt       lt div class  quot row quot  gt           lt div class  quot scrollable-item quot  gt              Child 1          lt  div gt           lt div class  quot scrollable-item quot  gt              Child 2          lt  div gt           lt div class  quot scrollable-item quot  gt              Child 3          lt  div gt           lt div class  quot scrollable-item quot  gt              Child 4          lt  div gt           lt div class  quot scrollable-item quot  gt              Child 5          lt  div gt           lt div class  quot scrollable-item quot  gt              Child 6          lt  div gt           lt div class  quot scrollable-item quot  gt              Child 7          lt  div gt           lt div class  quot scrollable-item quot  gt              Child 8          lt  div gt           lt div class  quot scrollable-item quot  gt              Child 9          lt  div gt           lt div class  quot scrollable-item quot  gt              Child 10          lt  div gt           lt div class  quot scrollable-item quot  gt              Child 11          lt  div gt           lt div class  quot scrollable-item quot  gt              Child 12          lt  div gt           lt div class  quot scrollable-item quot  gt              Child 13          lt  div gt           lt div class  quot scrollable-item quot  gt              Child 14          lt  div gt           lt div class  quot scrollable-item quot  gt              Child 15          lt  div gt           lt div class  quot scrollable-item quot  gt              Child 16          lt  div gt       lt  div gt   lt  div gt    lt style gt   scrollable-box       width  800px      height  150px      overflow-x  hidden      overflow-y  scroll      border  1px solid  444     scrollable-item       font-size  20px      padding  10px      text-align  center     lt  style gt   Build a small jQuery plugin    fn scrollDivToElement   function childSel        if    this length  return this       return this each function             let parentEl     this           let childEl   parentEl find childSel            if  childEl length  gt  0                parentEl scrollTop                  parentEl scrollTop   - parentEl offset   top   childEl offset   top -  parentEl outerHeight     2     childEl outerHeight     2                                       Usage      scrollable-box   scrollDivToElement   scrollable-item eq 12      Explanation   parentEl scrollTop      sets current vertical position of the scroll bar   parentEl scrollTop   gets the current vertical position of the scroll bar   parentEl offset   top gets the current coordinates of the parentEl relative to the document   childEl offset   top gets the current coordinates of the childEl relative to the document   parentEl outerHeight     2 gets the outer height divided in half  because we want it centered  of the child element   when used      parent  scrollDivToElement child   The parent is the scrollable div and it can be a string or a jQuery object of the DOM element  The child is any child that you want to scroll to and it can be a string or a jQuery object of the DOM element  Codepen demo

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I write these 2 functions to make my life easier   function scrollToTop elem  parent  speed        var scrollOffset   parent scrollTop     elem offset   top      parent animate  scrollTop scrollOffset   speed          parent scrollTop scrollOffset  speed      function scrollToCenter elem  parent  speed        var elOffset   elem offset   top      var elHeight   elem height        var parentViewTop   parent offset   top      var parentHeight   parent innerHeight        var offset       if  elHeight  gt   parentHeight            offset   elOffset        else           margin    parentHeight - elHeight  2          offset   elOffset - margin             var scrollOffset   parent scrollTop     offset - parentViewTop       parent animate  scrollTop scrollOffset   speed          parent scrollTop scrollOffset  speed       And use them   scrollToTop  innerListItem   parentDiv  200      or scrollToCenter  innerListItem   parentDiv  200

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This is my own plugin  will position the element in top of the the list  Specially for overflow-y   auto  May not work with overflow-x     NOTE  elem is the HTML selector of an element which the page will be scrolled to  Anything supported by jQuery  like   myid  div myclass    jquery object    dom object   etc   jQuery fn scrollTo   function elem  speed           this  animate           scrollTop     this  scrollTop   -   this  offset   top     elem  offset   top         speed    undefined   1000   speed        return this        If you don t need it to be animated  then use   jQuery fn scrollTo   function elem           this  scrollTop   this  scrollTop   -   this  offset   top     elem  offset   top        return this        How to use       overflow div   scrollTo   innerItem        overflow div   scrollTo   innerItem   2000     custom animation speed    Note   innerItem can be anywhere inside  overflow div  It doesn t really have to be a direct child   Tested in Firefox  23  and Chrome  28    If you want to scroll the whole page  check this question

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The above answers will position the inner element at the top of the overflow element even if it s in view inside the overflow element  I didn t want that so I modified it to not change the scroll position if the element is in view   jQuery fn scrollTo   function elem  speed        var  this   jQuery this       var  this top    this offset   top      var  this bottom    this top    this height        var  elem   jQuery elem       var  elem top    elem offset   top      var  elem bottom    elem top    elem height         if   elem top  gt   this top  amp  amp   elem bottom  lt   this bottom               in view so don t do anything         return            var new scroll top      if   elem top  lt   this top            new scroll top    scrollTop   this scrollTop   -  this top    elem top         else           new scroll top    scrollTop   elem bottom -  this bottom    this scrollTop                this animate new scroll top  speed     undefined   100   speed       return this

[jquery] How do I scroll to an element within an overflowed Div?

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