How to Scroll up or Down the Page to an Anchor Using jQuery?

Assuming that your href attribute is linking to a div with the tag id with the same name (as usual), you can use this code:

HTML

<a href="#goto" class="sliding-link">Link to div</a>

<div id="goto">I'm the div</div>

JAVASCRIPT - (Jquery)

$(".sliding-link").click(function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    var aid = $(this).attr("href");
    $('html,body').animate({scrollTop: $(aid).offset().top},'slow');
});

function scroll_to_anchor(anchor_id){
    var tag = $("#"+anchor_id);
    $('html,body').animate({scrollTop: tag.offset().top},'slow');
}

This made my life so much easier. You basically put in your elements id tag and its scrolls to it without a lot of code

In Javascript

$('#scrollto1').ScrollTo();

In your html

<div id="scroollto1">

Here I am all the way down the page

You should also consider that the target has a padding and thus use position instead of offset. You can also account for a potential nav bar you don't want to be overlapping the target.

const $navbar = $('.navbar');

$('a[href^="#"]').on('click', function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();

    const scrollTop =
        $($(this).attr('href')).position().top -
        $navbar.outerHeight();

    $('html, body').animate({ scrollTop });
})

My approach with jQuery to just make all of the embedded anchor links slide instead of jump instantly

It's really similar to the answer by Santi Nunez but it's more reliable.

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• Multi-framework environment.
• Before the page has finished loading.

<a href="#myid">Go to</a>
<div id="myid"></div>

// Slow scroll with anchors
(function($){
    $(document).on('click', 'a[href^=#]', function(e){
        e.preventDefault();
        var id = $(this).attr('href');
        $('html,body').animate({scrollTop: $(id).offset().top}, 500);
    });
})(jQuery);

Here is the solution that worked for me. This is a generic function which works for all of the a tags referring to a named a

$("a[href^=#]").on('click', function(event) { 
    event.preventDefault(); 
    var name = $(this).attr('href'); 
    var target = $('a[name="' + name.substring(1) + '"]'); 
    $('html,body').animate({ scrollTop: $(target).offset().top }, 'slow'); 
});

Note 1: Make sure that you use double quotes " in your html. If you use single quotes, change the above part of the code to var target = $("a[name='" + name.substring(1) + "']");

Note 2: In some cases, especially when you use the sticky bar from the bootstrap, the named a will hide beneath the navigation bar. In those cases (or any similar case), you can reduce the number of the pixels from your scroll to achieve the optimal location. For example: $('html,body').animate({ scrollTop: $(target).offset().top - 15 }, 'slow'); will take you to the target with 15 pixels left on the top.

I stuck with my original code and also included a fade in 'back-to-top' link making use of this code and a bit from here too:

Works well :)

Ok simplest method is : -

Within the click function (Jquery) : -

$('html,body').animate({scrollTop: $("#resultsdiv").offset().top},'slow');

HTML

<div id="resultsdiv">Where I want to scroll to</div>

You may want to add offsetTop and scrollTop value in case You are animating not the whole page , but rather some nested content.

e.g :

var itemTop= $('.letter[name="'+id+'"]').offset().top;
var offsetTop = $someWrapper.offset().top;
var scrollTop = $someWrapper.scrollTop();
var y = scrollTop + letterTop - offsetTop

this.manage_list_wrap.animate({
  scrollTop: y
}, 1000);