Jumping down the page Options

[Brian Chandler]

In my checkout shipping selection, I have buttons to go to the payment page, but I also want a "Contact" ("Ask"... not decided) button which jumps down the page to the contact form. In a simple case I would just use <a href="#contact">Contact us</a> (or similar), but I want to use JS to copy the current selection into the contact form (no problem), *then* jump down. What is the neatest way to do this? The method using an anchor and <a> is not entirely satisfactory, because the browser tends to position the (notional position of the) anchor precisely at the top of the screen -- it would be much nicer to get the form sensibly positioned on the screen. And it would be neater to do the jump in JS, to avoid having to add an <a> element.

Grateful for any suggestions - thanks!

[Brian Chandler]

Many thanks Christian. I will look at the docs for this - I just discovered that it is on page 590 of my (ancient) JS book, amazingly found by looking in the index for "scroll". (O'Reilly book by David Flanagan; the index is spectacularly useless in general, since it is not in alphabetical order. But once you know what the answer is, it's easy to find.)