Ditch the Jumpy Scrolling: Boost Your Site’s Navigation Experience With HD-Smooth-Scroll

HD-Smooth-Scroll is a lightweight JavaScript library that automatically detects and applies smooth scrolling effects to all anchor links on your webpage, those with hashtags that link to specific sections. This can be incredibly useful for long pages with multiple sections, like single-page websites or landing pages.

Smooth scrolling is a behavior that kicks in when a user clicks on a link that references a section on the same page. Normally, the browser would jump straight to that section, but with smooth scrolling, the window glides smoothly towards the target instead. It’s a small touch, but it can make a big difference in terms of perceived quality and user satisfaction.

While you could technically achieve a similar effect using the CSS property scroll-behavior: smooth, this library has some neat advantages. For one, it automatically applies smooth scrolling to all anchor links on the page, ignoring regular hyperlinks. But that’s not all – you can also customize the step size and duration of the scrolling animation to match your site’s style and tone.

How to use it:

1. Simply include the hd-smooth-scroll.js script in the document, and the library will take care of the rest.

<script src="/path/to/hd-smooth-scroll.js"></script>

2. Customize the scrolling animation, including the smoothness and duration, for a truly tailored user experience.

var numOfSteps = 50;
var stepDuration = 10;

Changelog:

v1.0.2 (03/01/2026)

• Update dependencies

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