Question

I’m looking for a way that lets me jump to a specific element in a list of elements (divs) using javascript.

I can’t use hashes, because i’m using the history.js plugin to display the position as if it was a url (http://www.mysite.com/load/php/into/div/)

I’ve tried scrolltop() and the scrollto plugin, but both won’t let me jump directly to an element – I don’t want the the page to flicker, as the scrollbar goes down.

I’m looking for a way that would look just as if you would be using linked hashes to get to the element.

Answer 1

Try something like this to jump to an element using scrollTo jQuery plugin.

var $parent = $('someParentContainer');//Or you can use body element
var $target = $parent.find('elementToScrollTo');
$('body').scrollTo($target, 500);