How to scroll HTML page to given anchor?

Question

I’d like to make the browser to scroll the page to a given anchor, just by using JavaScript.

I have specified a name or id attribute in my

Answer 1

jQuery("a[href^='#']").click(function(){
    jQuery('html, body').animate({
        scrollTop: jQuery( jQuery(this).attr('href') ).offset().top
    }, 1000);
    return false;
});