How to scroll to an element in jQuery?

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Prashant picture Prashant · Feb 1, 2009 · Viewed 150.9k times · Source

I have done the following code in JavaScript to put focus on the particular element (branch1 is a element),

document.location.href="#branch1";

But as I am also using jQuery in my web app, so I want to do the above code in jQuery. I have tried but don't know why its not working,

$("#branch1").focus();

The above jquery (focus()) code is not working for div, whereas If i am trying the same code with textbox, then its working,

Please tell me, how can I put focus on a div elemnt using jQuery?

Thanks!

Answer

Banning picture Banning · Mar 13, 2010

For my problem this code worked, I had to navigate to an anchor tag on page load :

$(window).scrollTop($('a#captchaAnchor').position().top);

For that matter you can use this on any element, not just an anchor tag.

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