Scroll to a specific div

Question

I have few divs .posts which have a attr data-id which corresponds to the mysql DB id.

<div class="posts" data-id="1"></div>
<div class="posts" data-id="2"></div>

Now if I want to scroll to a specific div which I am only known to the data-id. How will I scroll to it?. My JSFiddle is here. Can anyone give an example along with a JSFiddle?

Answer 1

You use link anchors and JQuery. Just give your link the class "scroll" and use the following code in the head:

$(function() {
  // Listen for a click event on the anchor
  $('.scroll').click(function(event) {
  
    // Prevent the jump to target that is default browser behavior
    event.preventDefault();
    
    // Animate the scrollTop property of the scrollParent to the top offset 
    // of the target element. In this case, we have an animation duration of 1000ms(1 second).
    $('html').animate({
      scrollTop: $(this.hash).offset().top
    }, 1000);
  });
});

/* Just for demo purposes */
.post {
  margin: 100vh 0;
  background: yellow;
}

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

<a href="#anchor" class="scroll">Go To Div 8</a>
<div class="post" id="anchor">Scroll to me</div>