How to scroll an HTML page to a given anchor

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I’d like to make the browser to scroll the page to a given anchor, just by using JavaScript.

I have specified a name or id attribute in my HTML code:

 <a name="anchorName">..</a>

or

 <h1 id="anchorName2">..</h1>

I’d like to get the same effect as you’d get by navigating to http://server.com/path#anchorName. The page should be scrolled so that the anchor is near the top of the visible part of the page.

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