How do I scroll to an element using JavaScript?

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C.. picture C.. · Feb 15, 2011 · Viewed 326.8k times · Source

I am trying to move the page to a <div> element.

I have tried the next code to no avail:

document.getElementById("divFirst").style.visibility = 'visible';
document.getElementById("divFirst").style.display = 'block';

Answer

schpet picture schpet · Mar 10, 2014

scrollIntoView works well:

document.getElementById("divFirst").scrollIntoView();

full reference in the MDN docs:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element.scrollIntoView

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