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

Most answers are unnecessarily complicated.

If you just want to jump to the target element, you don't need JavaScript:

# the link:
<a href="#target">Click here to jump.</a>

# target element:
<div id="target">Any kind of element.</div>

If you want to scroll to the target animatedly, please refer to @Shahil's answer.

Answer 2

The solution from CSS-Tricks no longer works in jQuery 2.2.0. It will throw a selector error:

JavaScript runtime error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: a[href*=#]:not([href=#])

I fixed it by changing the selector. The full snippet is this:

$(function() {
  $("a[href*='#']:not([href='#'])").click(function() {
    if (location.pathname.replace(/^\//,'') == this.pathname.replace(/^\//,'') && location.hostname == this.hostname) {
    var target = $(this.hash);
    target = target.length ? target : $('[name=' + this.hash.slice(1) +']');
    if (target.length) {
      $('html,body').animate({
        scrollTop: target.offset().top
      }, 1000);
      return false;
    }
  }
 });
});

Answer 3

Smoothly scroll to the proper position (2019)

Get correct y coordinate and use window.scrollTo({top: y, behavior: 'smooth'})

const id = 'anchorName2';
const yourElement = document.getElementById(id);
const y = yourElement.getBoundingClientRect().top + window.pageYOffset;

window.scrollTo({top: y, behavior: 'smooth'});

With offset

scrollIntoView is a good option too but it may not works perfectly in some cases. For example when you need additional offset. With scrollTo you just need to add that offset like this:

const yOffset = -10; 

window.scrollTo({top: y + yOffset, behavior: 'smooth'});

Answer 4

the easiest way to to make the browser to scroll the page to a given anchor is to type in your style.css *{scroll-behavior: smooth;} and in your html navigation use #NameOfTheSection

*{scroll-behavior: smooth;}

<a href="#scroll-to">Home<a/>

<p>other sections</p>
<p>other sections</p>
<p>other sections</p>
<p>other sections</p>
<p>other sections</p>
<p>other sections</p>
<p>other sections</p>
<p>other sections</p>
<p>other sections</p>
<p>other sections</p>
<p>other sections</p>
<p>other sections</p>
<p>other sections</p>

<section id="scroll-to">
<p>it will scroll down to this section</p>
</section>

Answer 5

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()
    })
}

Answer 6

I know this is question is really old, but I found an easy and simple jQuery solution in css-tricks. That's the one I'm using now.

$(function() {
  $('a[href*=#]:not([href=#])').click(function() {
    if (location.pathname.replace(/^\//,'') == this.pathname.replace(/^\//,'') && location.hostname == this.hostname) {
      var target = $(this.hash);
      target = target.length ? target : $('[name=' + this.hash.slice(1) +']');
      if (target.length) {
        $('html,body').animate({
          scrollTop: target.offset().top
        }, 1000);
        return false;
      }
    }
  });
});