Question

I’d really love the surrounding content to “scroll” up/down in like when using Scroll – but would also love the appropriate div to “fade” in.

Answer 1

Set is opacity to 100% transparent, then do a slide in effect to scroll the content down. Finally, fade the element in again.

Something like:-

$("mydiv").css("opacity", "0").slideDown("normal", function() {$(this).fadeIn("normal");});