Edit:
Are you trying to do sth like this? See: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/javascript.html#tabs
See the working example: http://jsfiddle.net/U6aKT/
<a href="#id">go to id</a>
<div style="margin-top:2000px;"></div>
<a id="id">id</a>
try this
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<body>
<a href="#name">click me</a>
<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>
<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>
<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>
<div name="name" id="name">here</div>
</body>
</html>