Scrolling to control on the page

What I am trying to do is manual page validation. Page contains multiple controls (each for additional Search criteria) and after user presses "Search" button I check if user input is valid in codebehind function (business logic is too complicated to use built-in validators). If for some controls user input is incorrect I would like to present user with a popup with explanation and then scroll to invalid control similar to how built-in validators do. I got popup part working using JavaScript but just can't get scrolling to control working.
Found this tutorial http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/9731/How-to-scroll-an-ASP-NET-control-into-view-after-p but it doesn't work for me.
I can use JQuery and/or pure Javascript if needed.
If anyone has any links to complete working samples on how to scroll to the control I would grea ...