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 HTML code:

 <a name="anchorName">..</a>

or

 <h1 id="anchorName2">..</h1>

I’d like to get the same effect as you’d get by navigating to http://server.com/path#anchorName. The page should be scrolled so that the anchor is near the top of the visible part of the page.

Answer 1

This is a working script that will scroll the page to the anchor. To setup just give the anchor link an id that matches the name attribute of the anchor that you want to scroll to.

<script>
jQuery(document).ready(function ($){ 
 $('a').click(function (){ 
  var id = $(this).attr('id');
  console.log(id);
  if ( id == 'cet' || id == 'protein' ) {
   $('html, body').animate({ scrollTop: $('[name="' + id + '"]').offset().top}, 'slow'); 
  }
 }); 
});
</script>

Answer 2

A pure javascript solution without JQuery. Tested on Chrome & I.e, not tested on IOS

function ScrollTo(name) {
  ScrollToResolver(document.getElementById(name));
}

function ScrollToResolver(elem) {
  var jump = parseInt(elem.getBoundingClientRect().top * .2);
  document.body.scrollTop += jump;
  document.documentElement.scrollTop += jump;
  if (!elem.lastjump || elem.lastjump > Math.abs(jump)) {
    elem.lastjump = Math.abs(jump);
    setTimeout(function() { ScrollToResolver(elem);}, "100");
  } else {
    elem.lastjump = null;
  }
}

demo: https://jsfiddle.net/jd7q25hg/12/