Smooth Scroll to Div Id Jquery

Smooth scroll to div id jQuery

You need to animate the html, body

DEMO http://jsfiddle.net/kevinPHPkevin/8tLdq/1/

$("#button").click(function() {
    $('html, body').animate({
        scrollTop: $("#myDiv").offset().top
    }, 2000);
});

Jquery Smooth Scroll To DIV - Using ID value from Link

Ids are meant to be unique, and never use an id that starts with a number, use data-attributes instead to set the target like so :

<div id="searchbycharacter">
    <a class="searchbychar" href="#" data-target="numeric">0-9 |</a> 
    <a class="searchbychar" href="#" data-target="A"> A |</a> 
    <a class="searchbychar" href="#" data-target="B"> B |</a> 
    <a class="searchbychar" href="#" data-target="C"> C |</a> 
    ... Untill Z
</div>

As for the jquery :

$(document).on('click','.searchbychar', function(event) {
    event.preventDefault();
    var target = "#" + this.getAttribute('data-target');
    $('html, body').animate({
        scrollTop: $(target).offset().top
    }, 2000);
});

Scroll to a div using jQuery

First, your code does not contain a contact div, it has a contacts div!

In sidebar you have contact in the div at the bottom of the page you have contacts. I removed the final s for the code sample. (you also misspelled the projectslink id in the sidebar).

Second, take a look at some of the examples for click on the jQuery reference page. You have to use click like, object.click( function() { // Your code here } ); in order to bind a click event handler to the object.... Like in my example below. As an aside, you can also just trigger a click on an object by using it without arguments, like object.click().

Third, scrollTo is a plugin in jQuery. I don't know if you have the plugin installed. You can't use scrollTo() without the plugin. In this case, the functionality you desire is only 2 lines of code, so I see no reason to use the plugin.

Ok, now on to a solution.

The code below will scroll to the correct div if you click a link in the sidebar. The window does have to be big enough to allow scrolling:

// This is a functions that scrolls to #{blah}link
function goToByScroll(id) {
    // Remove "link" from the ID
    id = id.replace("link", "");
    // Scroll
    $('html,body').animate({
        scrollTop: $("#" + id).offset().top
    }, 'slow');
}

$("#sidebar > ul > li > a").click(function(e) {
    // Prevent a page reload when a link is pressed
    e.preventDefault();
    // Call the scroll function
    goToByScroll(this.id);
});

Live Example

~~( Scroll to function taken from here )~~

PS: Obviously you should have a compelling reason to go this route instead of using anchor tags <a href="#gohere">blah</a> ... <a name="gohere">blah title</a>

Scroll to an element with jQuery

Assuming you have a button with the id button, try this example:

$("#button").click(function() {
    $([document.documentElement, document.body]).animate({
        scrollTop: $("#elementtoScrollToID").offset().top
    }, 2000);
});

I got the code from the article Smoothly scroll to an element without a jQuery plugin. And I have tested it on the example below.

<html>
    <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <script>
        $(document).ready(function (){
            $("#click").click(function (){
                $('html, body').animate({
                    scrollTop: $("#div1").offset().top
                }, 2000);
            });
        });
    </script>
    <div id="div1" style="height: 1000px; width 100px">
        Test
    </div>
    <br/>
    <div id="div2" style="height: 1000px; width 100px">
        Test 2
    </div>
    <button id="click">Click me</button>
</html>

Smooth Scrolling to ID

Your target and trigger is in the same line. So I am not sure how you are testing this.

$('#myButton').on('click', function() {
var $root = $("body > div");
$root.animate({
    scrollTop: $('#insert2').offset().top
}, 1000);
});

Fiddle
https://jsfiddle.net/u4ecuph2/

Note
1. I am giving $("body > div"); under the assumption that you want to smooth scroll contents withing that particular div and not on the whole document.
2. I have moved the button to the top.

Smooth Scroll to Div Id Jquery