Scroll page onClick of button to link on the same page

Question

Here is my code, which does not show any error, but don't go to href location either. Code works when I change href to "www.google.com". Why it does not work for same page link?

<form>
<a href="#DivIdToScroll">
   <div id="btnLink" onClick="generateReport();"> Generate </div>
</a>
</form>

<script>
function generateReport()
{
    window.location.href = '#DivIdToScroll';
}
</script>

Possible duplicate of [jQuery scroll to element](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6677035/jquery-scroll-to-element) — SwiftArchitect, Dec 03 '15 at 06:09

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 03 '15 at 06:06

I prepared a code snippet from the code you provided. I just made a long container, and inserted a div with the Id "DivIdToScroll" in the lower part. It seems to be working alright. You may have used a class instead of Id. Hope it helps.

 function generateReport() {
   window.location.href = '#DivIdToScroll';
 }

.longContainer {
  height: 1000px;
  background: #eee;
}
.justTakingSpace {
  height: 600px;
  margin: 2px;
  background: #ddd;
}

<div class="longContainer">
  <form>
    <a href="#DivIdToScroll">
      <div id="btnLink" onClick="generateReport();">Generate</div>
    </a>
  </form>

  <div class="justTakingSpace"></div>

  <div id="DivIdToScroll">Oh you're here at "#DivIdToScroll". hello hello.</div>
</div>

Thanks working now. Div was hidden before i add window.location.href = '#DivIdToScroll'; in function. That was the reason. when I place it at end of function, Its working good. — Deepika Karande, Dec 03 '15 at 06:58

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 03 '15 at 06:19

You can try this set of code, it has animation too.

<div id="DivIdToScroll">Go to link</div>

Here jquery code

$("#DivIdToScroll").click(function(){

$('html, body').animate({
        scrollTop: $("#scroll_div").offset().top
    }, 1000);
});

and here is the content div

<div id="scroll_div">Content</div>

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 17 '19 at 15:17

Without Animation

function generateReport() {
  window.location.href = '#DivIdToScroll';
}

<form>

  <a href="#DivIdToScroll">
    <div id="btnLink" onClick="generateReport();"> Generate </div>
  </a>

  <div style="height:500px">&nbsp;</div>

  <div id="DivIdToScroll">Go to link</div>

  <div style="height:500px">&nbsp;</div>
  
</form>

With Animation

function generateReport() {
  $('html, body').animate({
    scrollTop: $("#DivIdToScroll").offset().top
  }, 1000);
};

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<form>

  <a href="#DivIdToScroll">
    <div id="btnLink" onClick="generateReport();"> Generate </div>
  </a>

  <div style="height:500px">&nbsp;</div>

  <div id="DivIdToScroll">Go to link</div>

  <div style="height:500px">&nbsp;</div>

</form>

Scroll page onClick of button to link on the same page

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