How to scroll HTML page to given anchor?

Question

I’d like to make the browser to scroll the page to a given anchor, just by using JavaScript.

I have specified a name or id attribute in my

Answer 1

In 2018, you don't need jQuery for something simple like this. The built in scrollIntoView() method supports a "behavior" property to smoothly scroll to any element on the page. You can even update the browser URL with a hash to make it bookmarkable.

From this tutorial on scrolling HTML Bookmarks, here is a native way to add smooth scrolling to all anchor links on your page automatically:

let anchorlinks = document.querySelectorAll('a[href^="#"]')
 
for (let item of anchorlinks) { // relitere 
    item.addEventListener('click', (e)=> {
        let hashval = item.getAttribute('href')
        let target = document.querySelector(hashval)
        target.scrollIntoView({
            behavior: 'smooth',
            block: 'start'
        })
        history.pushState(null, null, hashval)
        e.preventDefault()
    })
}