...what if the areas i need to scroll to are defined as anchors in html <map> elements on top of a large inline image? and the areas that trigger the links are image map areas too. clicking on the image map areas scroll from one area to another. ideally not using absolute positioning, but with html anchors and their IDs. i tried modifying this technique here for no avail: http://www.learningjquery.com/2007/10/improved-animated-scrolling-script-for-same-page-links and this one here: http://plugins.jquery.com/project/scrollto any help appreciated - thanks!