Animate scroll to ID on page load

Im tring to animate the scroll to a particular ID on page load. I have done lots of research and came across this:

$("html, body").animate({ scrollTop: $('#title1').height() }, 1000);

but this seems to start from the ID and animate to the top of the page?

The HTML (which is half way down the page) is simply:

<h2 id="title1">Title here</h2>

Solution 1:

You are only scrolling the height of your element. offset() returns the coordinates of an element relative to the document, and top param will give you the element's distance in pixels along the y-axis:

$("html, body").animate({ scrollTop: $('#title1').offset().top }, 1000);

And you can also add a delay to it:

$("html, body").delay(2000).animate({scrollTop: $('#title1').offset().top }, 2000);

Solution 2:

Pure javascript solution with scrollIntoView() function:

document.getElementById('title1').scrollIntoView({block: 'start', behavior: 'smooth'});

<h2 id="title1">Some title</h2>

P.S. 'smooth' parameter now works from Chrome 61 as julien_c mentioned in the comments.