How to scroll to a point on a page

rr236 · Feb 13, 2004

Is it possible to create a function in javascript that is the equivalent of

<a href="#show_this">go to this</a> where show_this is the name of an id.

I want to load a page and auto scroll to a row in a table.

I know the anchor tag above works, but it means i have to click on the anchor after the page loads.

Surely this can be automated via firing the onload function within the body tag, or am i stretching javscript to far?

thanks in advance
rr236

adam0101 · Feb 13, 2004

You could use location.href='page.html#show_this' or you could use the scrollIntoView() method

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...or/dhtml/reference/methods/scrollintoview.asp

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jemminger · Feb 13, 2004

you could do this:

<body onload="document.getElementById('onloadAnchor').click();">

<a href="#show_this" id="onloadAnchor">go to this</a>

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