I use:
var el = document.getElementById(\"centd\");
el.scrollIntoView(true);
to scroll to specific position. In every browser it works fine
I feel like it's supposed to be a feature and not a bug (but cannot find evidence to support this theory): it works fine the first time the page loads / in a new tab, but as soon as the user scrolled, that scroll-position overrides any scrollTo
or scrollIntoView
commands (in this briefly flashing fashion you described, and that I am currently trying to make sense of) – even if you wait for the document to be ready.
Other browsers don't share this behavior, in my experience.