JavaScript to scroll long page to DIV

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I have a link on a long HTML page  When I click it  I wish a div on another part of the page to be visible in the window by scrolling into view   A bit like  EnsureVisible in other languages   I ve checked out scrollTop and scrollTo but they seem like red herrings   Can anyone help

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I personally found Josh s jQuery-based answer above to be the best I saw  and worked perfectly for my application    of course  I was already using jQuery    I certainly wouldn t have included the whole jQ library just for that one purpose   Cheers   EDIT  OK    so mere seconds after posting this  I saw another answer just below mine  not sure if still below me after an edit  that said to use   document getElementById  your element ID here   scrollIntoView     This works perfectly and in so much less code than the jQuery version   I had no idea that there was a built-in function in JS called  scrollIntoView    but there it is   So  if you want the fancy animation  go jQuery   Quick n  dirty    use this one

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The property you need is location hash  For example       location hash    top     would jump to named anchor  top  I don t know how to do the nice scroll animation without the use of dojo or some toolkit like that  but if you just need it to jump to an anchor  location hash should do it    tested on FF3 and Safari 3 1 2

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Why not a named anchor

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If you don t want to add an extra extension the following code should work with jQuery      a href  target         click function            var target      a name target             if  target length                        var top   target offset   top                 html body   animate  scrollTop  top   1000               return false

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Correct me if I m wrong but I m reading the question again and again and still think that Angus McCoteup was asking how to set an element to be position  fixed    Angus McCoteup  check out http   www cssplay co uk layouts fixed html - if you want your DIV to behave like a menu there  have a look at a CSS there

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You can use Element scrollIntoView   method as was mentioned above  If you leave it with no parameters inside you will have an instant ugly scroll  To prevent that you can add this parameter -  behavior  smooth    Example   document getElementById  scroll-here-plz   scrollIntoView  behavior   smooth   block   start   inline   nearest       Just replace scroll-here-plz with your div or element on a website  And if you see your element at the bottom of your window or the position is not what you would have expected  play with parameter block      You can use block   start   block   end  or block   center     Remember  Always use parameters inside an object      If you would still have problems  go to https   developer mozilla org en-US docs Web API Element scrollIntoView  There is detailed documentation for this method

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For smooth scroll this code is useful     a href   scrollToDivId    click function         if  location pathname replace              this pathname replace            amp  amp  location hostname    this hostname          var target     this hash         target   target length   target       name     this hash slice 1               var head height       header   outerHeight       if page has any sticky header get the header height else use 0 here       if  target length               html body   animate             scrollTop  target offset   top - head height            1000           return false

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lt a href   myAnchorALongWayDownThePage  gt Click here to scroll lt  a gt    lt A name  myAnchorALongWayDownThePage  gt  lt  a gt    No fancy scrolling but it should take you there

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I can t add a comment to futtta s reply above  but for a smoother scroll use   onClick  document getElementById  more   scrollIntoView  block   start   behavior   smooth

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scrollTop  IIRC  is where in the document the top of the page is scrolled to  scrollTo scrolls the page so that the top of the page is where you specify   What you need here is some Javascript manipulated styles  Say if you wanted the div off-screen and scroll in from the right you would set the left attribute of the div to the width of the page and then decrease it by a set amount every few seconds until it is where you want   This should point you in the right direction   Additional  I m sorry  I thought you wanted a separate div to  pop out  from somewhere  sort of like this site does sometimes   and not move the entire page to a section  Proper use of anchors would achieve that effect

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There is a jQuery plugin for the general case of scrolling to a DOM element  but if performance is an issue  and when is it not    I would suggest doing it manually  This involves two steps    Finding the position of the element you are scrolling to  Scrolling to that position    quirksmode gives a good explanation of the mechanism behind the former  Here s my preferred solution   function absoluteOffset elem        return elem offsetParent  amp  amp  elem offsetTop   absoluteOffset elem offsetParent       It uses casting from null to 0  which isn t proper etiquette in some circles  but I like it    The second part uses window scroll  So the rest of the solution is   function scrollToElement elem        window scroll absoluteOffset elem        Voila

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scrollTop  IIRC  is where in the document the top of the page is scrolled to  scrollTo scrolls the page so that the top of the page is where you specify   What you need here is some Javascript manipulated styles  Say if you wanted the div off-screen and scroll in from the right you would set the left attribute of the div to the width of the page and then decrease it by a set amount every few seconds until it is where you want   This should point you in the right direction   Additional  I m sorry  I thought you wanted a separate div to  pop out  from somewhere  sort of like this site does sometimes   and not move the entire page to a section  Proper use of anchors would achieve that effect

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lt a href   myAnchorALongWayDownThePage  gt Click here to scroll lt  a gt    lt A name  myAnchorALongWayDownThePage  gt  lt  a gt    No fancy scrolling but it should take you there

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lt a href   myAnchorALongWayDownThePage  gt Click here to scroll lt  a gt    lt A name  myAnchorALongWayDownThePage  gt  lt  a gt    No fancy scrolling but it should take you there

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Correct me if I m wrong but I m reading the question again and again and still think that Angus McCoteup was asking how to set an element to be position  fixed    Angus McCoteup  check out http   www cssplay co uk layouts fixed html - if you want your DIV to behave like a menu there  have a look at a CSS there

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There is a jQuery plugin for the general case of scrolling to a DOM element  but if performance is an issue  and when is it not    I would suggest doing it manually  This involves two steps    Finding the position of the element you are scrolling to  Scrolling to that position    quirksmode gives a good explanation of the mechanism behind the former  Here s my preferred solution   function absoluteOffset elem        return elem offsetParent  amp  amp  elem offsetTop   absoluteOffset elem offsetParent       It uses casting from null to 0  which isn t proper etiquette in some circles  but I like it    The second part uses window scroll  So the rest of the solution is   function scrollToElement elem        window scroll absoluteOffset elem        Voila

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How about the JQuery ScrollTo - see this sample code

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You can use Element scrollIntoView   method as was mentioned above  If you leave it with no parameters inside you will have an instant ugly scroll  To prevent that you can add this parameter -  behavior  smooth    Example   document getElementById  scroll-here-plz   scrollIntoView  behavior   smooth   block   start   inline   nearest       Just replace scroll-here-plz with your div or element on a website  And if you see your element at the bottom of your window or the position is not what you would have expected  play with parameter block      You can use block   start   block   end  or block   center     Remember  Always use parameters inside an object      If you would still have problems  go to https   developer mozilla org en-US docs Web API Element scrollIntoView  There is detailed documentation for this method

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The difficulty with scrolling is that you may not only need to scroll the page to show a div  but you may need to scroll inside scrollable divs on any number of levels as well   The scrollTop property is a available on any DOM element  including the document body  By setting it  you can control how far down something is scrolled  You can also use clientHeight and scrollHeight properties to see how much scrolling is needed  scrolling is possible when clientHeight  viewport  is less than scrollHeight  the height of the content    You can also use the offsetTop property to figure out where in the container an element is located   To build a truly general purpose  scroll into view  routine from scratch  you would need to start at the node you want to expose  make sure it s in the visible portion of it s parent  then repeat the same for the parent  etc  all the way until you reach the top   One step of this would look something like this  untested code  not checking edge cases    function scrollIntoView node      var parent   node parent    var parentCHeight   parent clientHeight    var parentSHeight   parent scrollHeight    if  parentSHeight  gt  parentCHeight        var nodeHeight   node clientHeight      var nodeOffset   node offsetTop      var scrollOffset   nodeOffset    nodeHeight   2  -  parentCHeight   2       parent scrollTop   scrollOffset        if  parent parent        scrollIntoView parent

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If you don t want to add an extra extension the following code should work with jQuery      a href  target         click function            var target      a name target             if  target length                        var top   target offset   top                 html body   animate  scrollTop  top   1000               return false

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old question  but if anyone finds this through google  as I did  and who does not want to use anchors or jquery  there s a builtin javascriptfunction to  jump  to an element   document getElementById  youridhere   scrollIntoView      and what s even better  according to the great compatibility-tables on quirksmode  this is supported by all major browsers

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The property you need is location hash  For example       location hash    top     would jump to named anchor  top  I don t know how to do the nice scroll animation without the use of dojo or some toolkit like that  but if you just need it to jump to an anchor  location hash should do it    tested on FF3 and Safari 3 1 2

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Answer posted here - same solution to your problem   Edit  the JQuery answer is very nice if you want a smooth scroll - I hadn t seen that in action before

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Why not a named anchor

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How about the JQuery ScrollTo - see this sample code

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scrollTop  IIRC  is where in the document the top of the page is scrolled to  scrollTo scrolls the page so that the top of the page is where you specify   What you need here is some Javascript manipulated styles  Say if you wanted the div off-screen and scroll in from the right you would set the left attribute of the div to the width of the page and then decrease it by a set amount every few seconds until it is where you want   This should point you in the right direction   Additional  I m sorry  I thought you wanted a separate div to  pop out  from somewhere  sort of like this site does sometimes   and not move the entire page to a section  Proper use of anchors would achieve that effect

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I personally found Josh s jQuery-based answer above to be the best I saw  and worked perfectly for my application    of course  I was already using jQuery    I certainly wouldn t have included the whole jQ library just for that one purpose   Cheers   EDIT  OK    so mere seconds after posting this  I saw another answer just below mine  not sure if still below me after an edit  that said to use   document getElementById  your element ID here   scrollIntoView     This works perfectly and in so much less code than the jQuery version   I had no idea that there was a built-in function in JS called  scrollIntoView    but there it is   So  if you want the fancy animation  go jQuery   Quick n  dirty    use this one

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Answer posted here - same solution to your problem   Edit  the JQuery answer is very nice if you want a smooth scroll - I hadn t seen that in action before

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lt a href   myAnchorALongWayDownThePage  gt Click here to scroll lt  a gt    lt A name  myAnchorALongWayDownThePage  gt  lt  a gt    No fancy scrolling but it should take you there

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The difficulty with scrolling is that you may not only need to scroll the page to show a div  but you may need to scroll inside scrollable divs on any number of levels as well   The scrollTop property is a available on any DOM element  including the document body  By setting it  you can control how far down something is scrolled  You can also use clientHeight and scrollHeight properties to see how much scrolling is needed  scrolling is possible when clientHeight  viewport  is less than scrollHeight  the height of the content    You can also use the offsetTop property to figure out where in the container an element is located   To build a truly general purpose  scroll into view  routine from scratch  you would need to start at the node you want to expose  make sure it s in the visible portion of it s parent  then repeat the same for the parent  etc  all the way until you reach the top   One step of this would look something like this  untested code  not checking edge cases    function scrollIntoView node      var parent   node parent    var parentCHeight   parent clientHeight    var parentSHeight   parent scrollHeight    if  parentSHeight  gt  parentCHeight        var nodeHeight   node clientHeight      var nodeOffset   node offsetTop      var scrollOffset   nodeOffset    nodeHeight   2  -  parentCHeight   2       parent scrollTop   scrollOffset        if  parent parent        scrollIntoView parent

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Correct me if I m wrong but I m reading the question again and again and still think that Angus McCoteup was asking how to set an element to be position  fixed    Angus McCoteup  check out http   www cssplay co uk layouts fixed html - if you want your DIV to behave like a menu there  have a look at a CSS there

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scrollTop  IIRC  is where in the document the top of the page is scrolled to  scrollTo scrolls the page so that the top of the page is where you specify   What you need here is some Javascript manipulated styles  Say if you wanted the div off-screen and scroll in from the right you would set the left attribute of the div to the width of the page and then decrease it by a set amount every few seconds until it is where you want   This should point you in the right direction   Additional  I m sorry  I thought you wanted a separate div to  pop out  from somewhere  sort of like this site does sometimes   and not move the entire page to a section  Proper use of anchors would achieve that effect

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old question  but if anyone finds this through google  as I did  and who does not want to use anchors or jquery  there s a builtin javascriptfunction to  jump  to an element   document getElementById  youridhere   scrollIntoView      and what s even better  according to the great compatibility-tables on quirksmode  this is supported by all major browsers

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The property you need is location hash  For example       location hash    top     would jump to named anchor  top  I don t know how to do the nice scroll animation without the use of dojo or some toolkit like that  but if you just need it to jump to an anchor  location hash should do it    tested on FF3 and Safari 3 1 2

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For smooth scroll this code is useful     a href   scrollToDivId    click function         if  location pathname replace              this pathname replace            amp  amp  location hostname    this hostname          var target     this hash         target   target length   target       name     this hash slice 1               var head height       header   outerHeight       if page has any sticky header get the header height else use 0 here       if  target length               html body   animate             scrollTop  target offset   top - head height            1000           return false

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If you don t want to add an extra extension the following code should work with jQuery      a href  target         click function            var target      a name target             if  target length                        var top   target offset   top                 html body   animate  scrollTop  top   1000               return false

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The property you need is location hash  For example       location hash    top     would jump to named anchor  top  I don t know how to do the nice scroll animation without the use of dojo or some toolkit like that  but if you just need it to jump to an anchor  location hash should do it    tested on FF3 and Safari 3 1 2

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Answer posted here - same solution to your problem   Edit  the JQuery answer is very nice if you want a smooth scroll - I hadn t seen that in action before

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There is a jQuery plugin for the general case of scrolling to a DOM element  but if performance is an issue  and when is it not    I would suggest doing it manually  This involves two steps    Finding the position of the element you are scrolling to  Scrolling to that position    quirksmode gives a good explanation of the mechanism behind the former  Here s my preferred solution   function absoluteOffset elem        return elem offsetParent  amp  amp  elem offsetTop   absoluteOffset elem offsetParent       It uses casting from null to 0  which isn t proper etiquette in some circles  but I like it    The second part uses window scroll  So the rest of the solution is   function scrollToElement elem        window scroll absoluteOffset elem        Voila

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If you don t want to add an extra extension the following code should work with jQuery      a href  target         click function            var target      a name target             if  target length                        var top   target offset   top                 html body   animate  scrollTop  top   1000               return false

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How about the JQuery ScrollTo - see this sample code

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How about the JQuery ScrollTo - see this sample code

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This worked for me  document getElementById  divElem   scrollIntoView

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Why not a named anchor

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The difficulty with scrolling is that you may not only need to scroll the page to show a div  but you may need to scroll inside scrollable divs on any number of levels as well   The scrollTop property is a available on any DOM element  including the document body  By setting it  you can control how far down something is scrolled  You can also use clientHeight and scrollHeight properties to see how much scrolling is needed  scrolling is possible when clientHeight  viewport  is less than scrollHeight  the height of the content    You can also use the offsetTop property to figure out where in the container an element is located   To build a truly general purpose  scroll into view  routine from scratch  you would need to start at the node you want to expose  make sure it s in the visible portion of it s parent  then repeat the same for the parent  etc  all the way until you reach the top   One step of this would look something like this  untested code  not checking edge cases    function scrollIntoView node      var parent   node parent    var parentCHeight   parent clientHeight    var parentSHeight   parent scrollHeight    if  parentSHeight  gt  parentCHeight        var nodeHeight   node clientHeight      var nodeOffset   node offsetTop      var scrollOffset   nodeOffset    nodeHeight   2  -  parentCHeight   2       parent scrollTop   scrollOffset        if  parent parent        scrollIntoView parent

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Answer posted here - same solution to your problem   Edit  the JQuery answer is very nice if you want a smooth scroll - I hadn t seen that in action before

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The difficulty with scrolling is that you may not only need to scroll the page to show a div  but you may need to scroll inside scrollable divs on any number of levels as well   The scrollTop property is a available on any DOM element  including the document body  By setting it  you can control how far down something is scrolled  You can also use clientHeight and scrollHeight properties to see how much scrolling is needed  scrolling is possible when clientHeight  viewport  is less than scrollHeight  the height of the content    You can also use the offsetTop property to figure out where in the container an element is located   To build a truly general purpose  scroll into view  routine from scratch  you would need to start at the node you want to expose  make sure it s in the visible portion of it s parent  then repeat the same for the parent  etc  all the way until you reach the top   One step of this would look something like this  untested code  not checking edge cases    function scrollIntoView node      var parent   node parent    var parentCHeight   parent clientHeight    var parentSHeight   parent scrollHeight    if  parentSHeight  gt  parentCHeight        var nodeHeight   node clientHeight      var nodeOffset   node offsetTop      var scrollOffset   nodeOffset    nodeHeight   2  -  parentCHeight   2       parent scrollTop   scrollOffset        if  parent parent        scrollIntoView parent

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Correct me if I m wrong but I m reading the question again and again and still think that Angus McCoteup was asking how to set an element to be position  fixed    Angus McCoteup  check out http   www cssplay co uk layouts fixed html - if you want your DIV to behave like a menu there  have a look at a CSS there

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There is a jQuery plugin for the general case of scrolling to a DOM element  but if performance is an issue  and when is it not    I would suggest doing it manually  This involves two steps    Finding the position of the element you are scrolling to  Scrolling to that position    quirksmode gives a good explanation of the mechanism behind the former  Here s my preferred solution   function absoluteOffset elem        return elem offsetParent  amp  amp  elem offsetTop   absoluteOffset elem offsetParent       It uses casting from null to 0  which isn t proper etiquette in some circles  but I like it    The second part uses window scroll  So the rest of the solution is   function scrollToElement elem        window scroll absoluteOffset elem        Voila

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I can t add a comment to futtta s reply above  but for a smoother scroll use   onClick  document getElementById  more   scrollIntoView  block   start   behavior   smooth

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Why not a named anchor

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This worked for me  document getElementById  divElem   scrollIntoView

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