How to scroll to specific item using jQuery?

Question

I have a big table with vertical scroll bar. I would like to scroll to a specific line in this table using jQuery/Javascript.

Are there built-in methods to do this?

Here is a little example to play with.

div {
    width: 100px;
    height: 70px;
    border: 1px solid blue;
    overflow: auto;
}

<div>
    <table id="my_table">
        <tr id='row_1'><td>1</td></tr>
        <tr id='row_2'><td>2</td></tr>
        <tr id='row_3'><td>3</td></tr>
        <tr id='row_4'><td>4</td></tr>
        <tr id='row_5'><td>5</td></tr>
        <tr id='row_6'><td>6</td></tr>
        <tr id='row_7'><td>7</td></tr>
        <tr id='row_8'><td>8</td></tr>
        <tr id='row_9'><td>9</td></tr>
    </table>
</div>

Answer 1

Dead simple. No plugins needed.

var $container = $('div'),
    $scrollTo = $('#row_8');

$container.scrollTop(
    $scrollTo.offset().top - $container.offset().top + $container.scrollTop()
);

// Or you can animate the scrolling:
$container.animate({
    scrollTop: $scrollTo.offset().top - $container.offset().top + $container.scrollTop()
});​

Here is a working example.

Documentation for scrollTop.

Answer 2

You can scroll by jQuery and JavaScript Just need two element jQuery and this JavaScript code :

$(function() {
  // Generic selector to be used anywhere
  $(".js-scroll-to-id").click(function(e) {

    // Get the href dynamically
    var destination = $(this).attr('href');

    // Prevent href=“#” link from changing the URL hash (optional)
    e.preventDefault();

    // Animate scroll to destination
    $('html, body').animate({
      scrollTop: $(destination).offset().top
    }, 1500);
  });
});

$(function() {
  // Generic selector to be used anywhere
  $(".js-scroll-to-id").click(function(e) {

    // Get the href dynamically
    var destination = $(this).attr('href');

    // Prevent href=“#” link from changing the URL hash (optional)
    e.preventDefault();

    // Animate scroll to destination
    $('html, body').animate({
      scrollTop: $(destination).offset().top
    }, 1500);
  });
});

#pane1 {
  background: #000;
  width: 400px;
  height: 400px;
}

#pane2 {
  background: #ff0000;
  width: 400px;
  height: 400px;
}

#pane3 {
  background: #ccc;
  width: 400px;
  height: 400px;
}

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<ul class="nav">
  <li>
    <a href="#pane1" class=" js-scroll-to-id">Item 1</a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="#pane2" class="js-scroll-to-id">Item 2</a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="#pane3" class=" js-scroll-to-id">Item 3</a>
  </li>
</ul>
<div id="pane1"></div>
<div id="pane2"></div>
<div id="pane3"></div>
<!-- example of a fixed nav menu -->
<ul class="nav">
  <li>
    <a href="#pane3" class="js-scroll-to-id">Item 1</a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="#pane2" class="js-scroll-to-id">Item 2</a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="#pane1" class="js-scroll-to-id">Item 3</a>
  </li>
</ul>

Answer 3

Best plugin I found was this gist.

Its not a plugin per say but it does the work of one, and it solved my problems. unfortunately it only works in FireFox. No idea why chrome doesn't like it/doesn't wanna run it.

EDIT: Meanwhile I managed to do it myself. No need for any plugins. Check out my gist:

// Replace #fromA with your button/control and #toB with the target to which     
// You wanna scroll to. 
//
$("#fromA").click(function() {
    $("html, body").animate({ scrollTop: $("#toB").offset().top }, 1500);
});

Answer 4

Scroll element to center of container

To bring the element to the center of the container.

DEMO on CODEPEN

JS

function scrollToCenter() {
  var container = $('.container'),
    scrollTo = $('.5');

  container.animate({
    //scrolls to center
    scrollTop: scrollTo.offset().top - container.offset().top + scrollTo.scrollTop() - container.height() / 2
  });
}

HTML

<div class="container">
   <div class="1">
    1
  </div>
  <div class="2">
    2
  </div>
  <div class="3">
    3
  </div>
  <div class="4">
    4
  </div>
  <div class="5">
    5
  </div>
  <div class="6">
    6
  </div>
  <div class="7">
    7
  </div>
  <div class="8">
    8
  </div>
  <div class="9">
    9
  </div>
  <div class="10">
    10
  </div>


</div>
<br>
<br>
<button id="scroll" onclick="scrollToCenter()">
  Scroll
</button>

css

.container {
  height: 60px;
  overflow-y: scroll;
  width 60px;
  background-color: white;
}

It is not exact to the center but you will not recognice it on larger bigger elements.

Answer 5

I've always found the jQuery scrollTo plugin to be very useful for this. Play with the demos to see if it's for you.

Answer 6

Not sure why no one says the obvious, as there's a built in javascript scrollTo function:

scrollTo( $('#element').position().top );

Reference.