Ariel Flesler has created a nice little jQuery plugin scroller called ScrollTo, that lets you scroll with many configuration options:

• Axes to be scrolled, 'x', 'y', 'xy' or 'yx'.
• Animation length (or by default, no animation)
• Easing method
• Whether to take in account, the margin of the target element
• If both axes are chosen, whether to animate together, or queue the animations.
• The possibility to add/deduct from the end position a defined amount of pixels.
• If queing, a callback function to be called after the first scrolling.
• A callback function to be called after the whole scrolling ended.

For example:

$.scrollTo( '#options-examples', 800, {easing:'elasout'} );
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