Scroll to position (javascript)

Question

I'm trying to get javascript to scroll the page to a target position, something like:

scrollbarxpos += (targetscrollbarxpos - scrollbarxpos) / 100.0f;

And basically keep calling that line of code until scrollbarxpos = targetscrollbarxpos.

Any idea how I can go about doing this?

Answer 1

You can always use jQuery:

http://jsfiddle.net/jtbowden/vJmcK/

Answer 2

Have you looked at the scrollTo function? It allows you to scroll to a position on a page with x- or y- coordinates. If you want to animate the scroll, you could use some combination of setInterval and clearInterval to call scrollTo until you've reached your desire y-position.