Smooth scroll to specific div on click

What if u use scrollIntoView function?

var elmntToView = document.getElementById("sectionId");
elmntToView.scrollIntoView(); 

Has {behavior: "smooth"} too.... ;) https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/scrollIntoView


do:

$("button").click(function() {
    $('html,body').animate({
        scrollTop: $(".second").offset().top},
        'slow');
});

Updated Jsfiddle


There are many examples of smooth scrolling using JS libraries like jQuery, Mootools, Prototype, etc.

The following example is on pure JavaScript. If you have no jQuery/Mootools/Prototype on page or you don't want to overload page with heavy JS libraries the example will be of help.

http://jsfiddle.net/rjSfP/

HTML Part:

<div class="first"><button type="button" onclick="smoothScroll(document.getElementById('second'))">Click Me!</button></div>
<div class="second" id="second">Hi</div>

CSS Part:

.first {
    width: 100%;
    height: 1000px;
    background: #ccc;
}

.second {
    width: 100%;
    height: 1000px;
    background: #999;
}

JS Part:

window.smoothScroll = function(target) {
    var scrollContainer = target;
    do { //find scroll container
        scrollContainer = scrollContainer.parentNode;
        if (!scrollContainer) return;
        scrollContainer.scrollTop += 1;
    } while (scrollContainer.scrollTop == 0);

    var targetY = 0;
    do { //find the top of target relatively to the container
        if (target == scrollContainer) break;
        targetY += target.offsetTop;
    } while (target = target.offsetParent);

    scroll = function(c, a, b, i) {
        i++; if (i > 30) return;
        c.scrollTop = a + (b - a) / 30 * i;
        setTimeout(function(){ scroll(c, a, b, i); }, 20);
    }
    // start scrolling
    scroll(scrollContainer, scrollContainer.scrollTop, targetY, 0);
}