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If you don't need the change to animate then you don't need to use any special plugins - I'd just use the native JavaScript window.scrollTo() method -- passing in 0, 0 will scroll the page to the top left instantly.

window.scrollTo(xCoord, yCoord);
Parameters
xCoord is the pixel along the horizontal axis.
yCoord is the pixel along the vertical axis.
                That was my point, if you don't need to animate smooth scrolling then you don't need to use jQuery.
– SavoryBytes
                Mar 1, 2012 at 21:47
                Funny as jeff's comment is honestly for people who just want things to work cross browser 95% of the time should just use jQuery. This is coming from someone who has to write a lot of pure javascript right now because we can't afford the overhead of a library slowing down ad code :(
– Will
                Jun 10, 2013 at 17:10
                This answer has nothing to do with the question. It would be fine if the question was: What script and methods should I use to scroll to the top of the page? Correct answer is here: stackoverflow.com/questions/4147112/…
– skobaljic
                Feb 11, 2014 at 12:00
If you do want smooth scrolling, try something like this:
$("a[href='#top']").click(function() {
  $("html, body").animate({ scrollTop: 0 }, "slow");
  return false;
That will take any <a> tag whose href="#top" and make it smooth scroll to the top.
                +1. I was just wondering how to do something like this and google lead me here. QUestion though, where is "scrollTop" function in the docs? I just looked but couldn't find it.
– sqram
                Jul 18, 2009 at 1:55
                This does not work correctly when using animate's complete callback, as it will run it twice.
– David Morales
                Jul 22, 2012 at 11:41
                "html" and "body" are both required for browser compatibility, i.e. Chrome v27 scrolls with just "body" and IE8 does not. IE8 scrolls with just "html" but Chrome v27 does not.
– SushiGuy
                May 30, 2013 at 16:56
                @jalchr Actually, window.pageYOffset would be the property of the window e̶l̶e̶m̶e̶n̶t̶  object.
– Alex W
                Oct 8, 2013 at 18:40
// this changes the scrolling behavior to "smooth"
window.scrollTo({ top: 0, behavior: 'smooth' });
Reference: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/scrollTo#Example
                You may still need to polyfill support for the ScrollOptions (for certain browsers): github.com/iamdustan/smoothscroll
– jneuendorf
                Dec 5, 2018 at 8:57
                Can someone test this on Safari or Internet Explorer and see if it's working fine? Thanks
– Fabio Magarelli
                Mar 26, 2020 at 10:23
                @FabioMagarelli Its working fine on Safari, not tested on IE. FYI to test it on safari open any page which has scroll and copy paste the above code in Developer Tools -> Console  it will scroll to top verified ( Safari Version 13.0.5).
– Ganesh Ghalame
                Mar 26, 2020 at 10:41
                This is the best answer. We can use document.body.scrollHeight for the top value if one wants to scroll to the bottom.
– Talha Imam
                Feb 7, 2022 at 13:27
                this is the same:   if ('scrollRestoration' in history) { 	history.scrollRestoration = 'manual'; }
– Vasilii Suricov
                Mar 31, 2019 at 10:45
You don't need jQuery to do this. A standard HTML  tag will suffice...
<div id="jump_to_me">
    blah blah blah
<a target="#jump_to_me">Click Here To Destroy The World!</a>
                This is not going to  work if you call another button by using getElementById in the middle of a page.
– Jim O.
                Sep 9, 2020 at 18:21
All of these suggestions work great for various situations. For those who find this page through a search, one can also give this a try. JQuery, no plug-in, scroll to element.
$('html, body').animate({
    scrollTop: $("#elementID").offset().top
}, 2000);
(function smoothscroll(){
    var currentScroll = document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.body.scrollTop;
    if (currentScroll > 0) {
         window.requestAnimationFrame(smoothscroll);
         window.scrollTo (0,currentScroll - (currentScroll/5));
})();
$(function(){
   var scroll_pos=(0);          
   $('html, body').animate({scrollTop:(scroll_pos)}, '2000');
</script>
Edit:
$('html, body').animate({scrollTop:(scroll_pos)}, 2000);
Another way scroll with top and left margin:
window.scrollTo({ top: 100, left: 100, behavior: 'smooth' });
                You can't use a string for the duration in the animate function, instead you should use:   $('html, body').animate({scrollTop:(scroll_pos)}, 2000);
– Kenny Alvizuris
                Jun 19, 2018 at 14:48
Really strange: This question is active for five years now and there is still no vanilla JavaScript answer to animate the scrolling… So here you go:
var scrollToTop = window.setInterval(function() {
    var pos = window.pageYOffset;
    if ( pos > 0 ) {
        window.scrollTo( 0, pos - 20 ); // how far to scroll on each step
    } else {
        window.clearInterval( scrollToTop );
}, 16); // how fast to scroll (this equals roughly 60 fps)
If you like, you can wrap this in a function and call that via the onclick attribute. Check this jsfiddle
Note: This is a very basic solution and maybe not the most performant one. A very elaborated example can be found here: https://github.com/cferdinandi/smooth-scroll
                Best solution for me. No plugins, no bulky jquery library just straightforward javascript. Kudos
– user2840467
                Nov 8, 2016 at 22:06
                Man, I also created this same logic XD after 5 years, exactly the same logic, only values are different like, the interval time and that integer which we are using to subtract, can't believe XD. TBH, came here to answer but it's already there so upvoted your answer.
– Germa Vinsmoke
                Jul 2, 2019 at 8:51
  $("a[href='#top']").click(function() {
     $("html, body").animate({ scrollTop: 0 }, "slow");
     return false;
</script>
in html
<a href="#top">go top</a>
With window.scrollTo(0, 0); is very fast

so i tried the Mark Ursino example, but in Chrome nothing happens

and i found this
$('.showPeriodMsgPopup').click(function(){
    //window.scrollTo(0, 0);
    $('html').animate({scrollTop:0}, 'slow');//IE, FF
    $('body').animate({scrollTop:0}, 'slow');//chrome, don't know if Safari works
    $('.popupPeriod').fadeIn(1000, function(){
        setTimeout(function(){$('.popupPeriod').fadeOut(2000);}, 3000);
tested all 3 browsers and it works

i'm using blueprint css

this is when a client clicks "Book now" button and doesn't have the rental period selected, slowly moves to the top where the calendars are and opens a dialog div pointing to the 2  fields, after 3sec it fades
                Thanks for pointing out you need to target both html and body. I was only doing it for html and wondering why it didn't work in Chrome.
– Jared
                Mar 10, 2011 at 20:42
Another solution is JavaScript window.scrollTo method :
 window.scrollTo(x-value, y-value);
Parameters :
x-value is the pixel along the horizontal axis.
y-value is the pixel along the vertical axis.
                that is a legitimate way to use stackoverflow - it's more practical to have it in one place. Joel Spolsky used re-use of existing answers as an example of how stackoverflow is supposed to work at one point. If you are interested I can try and find the blog post
– Edgar H
                Jan 25, 2018 at 13:25
A lot of users recommend selecting both the html and body tags for cross-browser compatibility, like so:
$('html, body').animate({ scrollTop: 0 }, callback);
This can trip you up though if you're counting on your callback running only once. It will in fact run twice because you've selected two elements.
If that is a problem for you, you can do something like this:
function scrollToTop(callback) {
    if ($('html').scrollTop()) {
        $('html').animate({ scrollTop: 0 }, callback);
        return;
    $('body').animate({ scrollTop: 0 }, callback);
The reason this works is in Chrome $('html').scrollTop() returns 0, but not in other browsers such as Firefox.
If you don't want to wait for the animation to complete in the case that the scrollbar is already at the top, try this:
function scrollToTop(callback) {
    if ($('html').scrollTop()) {
        $('html').animate({ scrollTop: 0 }, callback);
        return;
    if ($('body').scrollTop()) {
        $('body').animate({ scrollTop: 0 }, callback);
        return;
    callback();
let topBtn = document.querySelector(".top-btn");
// On Click, Scroll to the page's top, replace 'smooth' with 'auto' if you don't want smooth scrolling
topBtn.onclick = () => window.scrollTo({ top: 0, behavior: "smooth" });
// On scroll, Show/Hide the btn with animation
window.onscroll = () => window.scrollY > 500 ? topBtn.style.opacity = 1 : topBtn.style.opacity = 0
body {
  background-color: #111;
  height: 5000px;
.top-btn {
  all: unset; 
  position: fixed;
  right: 20px;
  bottom: 20px;
  cursor: pointer;
  transform:scale(1.8);
  opacity: 0;
  transition: .3s;
<button class="top-btn">🔝</button>
$(".scrolltop").click(function() {
  $("html, body").animate({ scrollTop: 0 }, "slow");
  return false;
.section{
 height:400px;
.section1{
  background-color: #333;
.section2{
  background-color: red;
.section3{
  background-color: yellow;
.section4{
  background-color: green;
.scrolltop{
  position:fixed;
  right:10px;
  bottom:10px;
  color:#fff;
<title>Scroll top demo</title>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.js"></script>
</head>
<div class="content-wrapper">
<div class="section section1"></div>
<div class="section section2"></div>
<div class="section section3"></div>
<div class="section section4"></div>
<a class="scrolltop">Scroll top</a>
</body>
</html>
                While this code may answer the question, providing information on how and why it solves the problem improves its long-term value
– L_J
                Jul 14, 2018 at 7:53
                In web page any user will click on scroll top button then then page will scroll top top with animation.
– arvinda kumar
                Jul 21, 2018 at 5:57
                What he is stating is true, and I believe it's a great answer as that version of jQuery already comes with support for scrolling .. if you open the JS file you will find the explanation there.. just need to target the class // Create scrollLeft and scrollTop methods jQuery.each( { scrollLeft: "pageXOffset", scrollTop: "pageYOffset" }, function( method, prop ) {
– Jean G.T
                Aug 5, 2021 at 7:53
                Note that when you don't use Firefox this won't work. You get an error when only giving one argument (Error: Not enough arguments [nsIDOMWindow.scrollTo]).
– Husky
                Nov 14, 2012 at 13:57
I write an animated solution on Codepen
Also, you can try another solution with CSS scroll-behavior: smooth property.
html {
    scroll-behavior: smooth;
@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
    html {
        scroll-behavior: auto;
Why don't you use JQuery inbuilt function scrollTop :
$('html, body').scrollTop(0);//For scrolling to top
$("body").scrollTop($("body")[0].scrollHeight);//For scrolling to bottom
Short and simple!
                Unfortunately, it's not the best solution since you are changing location physically in that case instead of scrolling the page. That might cause issues if location is important (in case of using Angular routing or so)
– Yaroslav Rogoza
                Dec 17, 2015 at 15:50
                @YaroslavRogoza is correct. While it may work in simple cases, I would not recommend this solution. Location is becoming increasingly important and single-page apps extensively use the hash to handle navigation. You would immediately introduce a side-effect bug when either adding hash based navigation after this or this to hash based navigation.
– Andrew Grothe
                May 9, 2016 at 23:23
Motivation
This simple solution works natively and implements a smooth scroll to any position.
It avoids using anchor links (those with #) that, in my opinion, are useful if you want to link to a section, but are not so comfortable in some situations, specially when pointing to top which could lead to two different URLs pointing to the same location (http://www.example.org and http://www.example.org/#).
Solution
Put an id to the tag you want to scroll to, for example your first section, which answers this question, but the id could be placed everywhere in the page.
  <section id="top">
    <!-- your content -->
  </section>
  <div id="another"><!-- more content --></div>
Then as a button you can use a link, just edit the onclick attribute with a code like this.
<a onclick="document.getElementById('top').scrollIntoView({ behavior: 'smooth', block: 'start', inline: 'nearest' })">Click me</a>
Where the argument of document.getElementById is the id of the tag you want to scroll to after click.
                @HugoStivenLagunaRueda you welcome, I found it on MDN, so thanks to Mozilla. It is awesome how many things are already there, supported natively. I love vanilla JS.
– Gianluca Casati
                May 21, 2018 at 14:03
If you don't want smooth scrolling, you can cheat and stop the smooth scrolling animation pretty much as soon as you start it... like so:
   $(document).ready(function() {
      $("a[href='#top']").click(function() {
          $("html, body").animate({ scrollTop: 0 }, "1");              
          $('html, body').stop(true, true);
          //Anything else you want to do in the same action goes here
          return false;                              
I've no idea whether it's recommended/allowed, but it works :)
When would you use this? I'm not sure, but perhaps when you want to use one click to animate one thing with Jquery, but do another without animation? ie open a slide-in admin login panel at the top of the page, and instantly jump to the top to see it.