$(document).ready(function() {
   var destination = $('#ID_of_the_element_to_scroll_to').offset().top;
   $("html:not(:animated),body:not(:animated)").animate({ scrollTop: destination-20}, 500 );
});

Here is a simple example with auto scroll. http://examples.oncemade.com/autoScrollJquery.html

Let me know if it works for you.

I’d like to replicate the effect but scroll on page load, rather than when clicking on a link.

Could you give me any tips on how to tweak the script to achieve that please?

Thanks

There is a plugin called scrollto that might be what you’re looking for. http://demos.flesler.com/jquery/scrollTo/

I hope it helps.
Rodrigo

I have a website that doesn’t scroll up and down but sideways instead and I have numerous div’s going to the right of the page and I wanted to be able to scroll to each div to the right (each div is about 300px). So in a nutshell, instead of scrolling to the top of the page once I’d be scrolling to the right of the page multiple times … do you know how I could implement this with your code?

Thanks Again!

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