How to scroll to an element in jQuery?

Question

I have done the following code in JavaScript to put focus on the particular element (branch1 is a element),

document.location.href="#branch1";

But as I am also using jQuery in my web app, so I want to do the above code in jQuery. I have tried but don't know why its not working,

$("#branch1").focus();

The above jquery (focus()) code is not working for div, whereas If i am trying the same code with textbox, then its working,

Please tell me, how can I put focus on a div elemnt using jQuery?

Thanks!

Mlle

Answer 1

Check jQuery.ScrollTo, I think that's the behavior that you want, check the demo.

Laudanum

This answer pops up first Google. As of the new jQuery renovations, the new, correct URL is plugins.jquery.com/scrollto – Soche

Even that address is outdated now. Author's Github repo is at github.com/flesler/jquery.scrollTo – Hypersensitize

Link out of date and not really jQuery, but a jQuery plugin. – Symbol

Answer 2

For my problem this code worked, I had to navigate to an anchor tag on page load :

$(window).scrollTop($('a#captchaAnchor').position().top);

For that matter you can use this on any element, not just an anchor tag.

Aquatint

Instead of "$(this).scrollTop" you should use "$(window).scrollTop". The first only workings when "this" happens to be the same as "window". – Hardin

Answer 3

Like @user293153 I only just discovered this question and it didn't seem to be answered correctly.

His answer was best. But you can also animate to the element as well.

$('html, body').animate({ scrollTop: $("#some_element").offset().top }, 500);

Admirable

if you are using it inside a .live('click') and you notice the window jumps to the top of the page, add a "return false" as the last statement, it solves the problem for IE and Chrome :D – Trackless

awesome. it doesnt' need a plugin. – Nolie

Note that though it seems "html" would be unneeded in the selector, Firefox won't do the scroll without it. So $('html, body') works, $('body') does not (FF only, in IE and Chrome it works fine). – Herbarium

Answer 4

You can extend jQuery functionalities like this:

jQuery.fn.extend({
scrollToMe: function () {
    var x = jQuery(this).offset().top - 100;
    jQuery('html,body').animate({scrollTop: x}, 500);
}});

and then:

$('...').scrollToMe();

easy ;-)

Alcoholize

That's the nicest solution, I think. Just add it once, and then forget about it... :-) – He

Very nice solution. This type of solution will go beyond the OP question and abbreviate a bunch of my code. – Dispersion

@Oudin I know this is slow to respond, but replace 'html,body' with '.scrollable-container' and then add scrollable-container' to the list of classes on your div. You could also add a parameter to scrollToMe` which takes any specific selector you want to be the parent instead. – Misbehavior

thanks thats an excellent answer. I didnt need the animation, so I just did scrollToMe: function () { var x = jQuery(this).offset().top - 100; $('html').scrollTop(x); }}); – Parochial

Thanks, well done. I extended this to handle scrolling objects in a scrolling window. jQuery.fn.extend({ scrollToMe: function (e) { if (typeof(e)=='undefined'){ e='html,body'; } var y = jQuery(this).offset().top; jQuery(e).animate({scrollTop: y}, 500); } }); – Declarant

this is the best solution – Gotha

Answer 5

Check out jquery-scrollintoview.

ScrollTo is fine, but oftentimes you just want to make sure a UI element is visible, not necessarily at the top. ScrollTo doesn't help you with this. From scrollintoview's README:

How does this plugin solve the user experience issue

This plugin scrolls a particular element into view similar to browser built-in functionality (DOM's scrollIntoView() function), but works differently (and arguably more user friendly):

• it only scrolls to element when element is actually out of view; if element is in view (anywhere in visible document area), no scrolling will be performed;
• it scrolls using animation effects; when scrolling is performed users know exactly they're not redirected anywhere, but actually see that they're simply moved somewhere else within the same page (as well as in which direction they moved);
• there's always the smallest amount of scrolling being applied; when element is above the visible document area it will be scrolled to the top of visible area; when element is below the visible are it will be scrolled to the bottom of visible area; this is the most consistent way of scrolling - when scrolling would always be to top it sometimes couldn't scroll an element to top when it was close to the bottom of scrollable container (thus scrolling would be unpredictable);
• when element's size exceeds the size of visible document area its top-left corner is the one that will be scrolled to;

Quiteris

Answer 6

Use

$(window).scrollTop()

It'll scroll the window to the item.

 var scrollPos =  $("#branch1").offset().top;
 $(window).scrollTop(scrollPos);

Carrero

Please don't add the same answer to multiple questions. Answer the best one and flag the rest as duplicates, once you earn enough reputation. If it is not a duplicate, edit the answer and tailor the post to the question. – Subcontraoctave

Answer 7

If you're simply trying to scroll to the specified element, you can use the scrollIntoView method of the Element. Here's an example :

$target.get(0).scrollIntoView();

Germanophobe

Thank you! Completely solved my issue. I've also added {behavior: "smooth"} as argument to scroll smoothly. – Kaylyn

Answer 8

I think you might be looking for an "anchor" given the example you have.

<a href="#jump">This link will jump to the anchor named jump</a>
<a name="jump">This is where the link will jump to</a>

The focus jQuery method does something different from what you're trying to achieve.

Isobel

Ya I'm trying to achieve the same anchoring task. Ok, if the focus can't do it, is there any other method in jquery which can do this? – Mlle

Answer 9

For the focus() function to work on the element the div needs to have a tabindex attribute. This is probably not done by default on this type of element as it is not an input field. You can add a tabindex for example at -1 to prevent users who use tab to focus on it. If you use a positive tabindex users will be able to use tab to focus on the div element.

Here an example: http://jsfiddle.net/klodder/gFPQL/

However tabindex is not supported in Safari.

Spotless

Answer 10

maybe you want to try this simple one

$(document).ready(function() {
   $(".to-branch1").click(function() {
     $('html, body').animate({
         scrollTop: $("#branch1").offset().top
     }, 1500);
   });
});

Smasher