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How can I get my anchor link to scroll smoothly back up top like it does when it goes down?

I am trying to get my page to scroll back to my top anchor smoothly like it does when I go down to my bottom anchor. However instead of scrolling smoothly, it jumps without any animation.
Could someone assist me in pointing out what I can do to make it scroll smoothly both ways?
JavaScript
$('a').click(function(){
$('html, body').animate({
scrollTop: $( $(this).attr('href') ).offset().top
}, 500);
return false;
});
JSFiddle

The ID of the <a href="#myAnchor" name="topAnchor" id="anchor1"> is wrong, set it to id="topAnchor" and it will work nicely.

If you target the top anchor by id instead of by name, it will scroll smoothly. (It had an ID of anchor1.) See the updated fiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/freginold/atg8xcyd/1/
This is the updated HTML code for the top anchor element:
<a name="topAnchor" href="#myAnchor" rel="" id="topAnchor" class="anchorLink">Link to the anchor</a>

I have done this with JQuery. As a function it is reusable:
function goTo(goToElement) {
$('body').animate({scrollTop:$(goToElement).offset().top}, 1500);
}
In any HTML element just set onclick="goTo('#id_to_goTo')" and it will smooth scroll to the element id you passed in either up or down.

How to scroll to a specific div when the mouse is scrolled with jQuery?

I have this code right now which scrolls to the correct place when a button is clicked:
$("#skills").click(function() {
$('html, body').animate({scrollTop: $("#skills_page").offset().top}, 500);
$(this).addClass("toggled_alt");
$("#skills_id").css("background-color", "#646464");
$("#contact_id, #home_id, #about_id").css("background-color", "transparent");
$("#home, #contact, #about").removeClass("toggled");
$("#home, #contact, #about").removeClass("toggled_alt");
});
What I want to do now is I want the page to scroll to the next div when the scroll wheel is moved down/up. I've been searching google for a while now and all that comes up is stuff about smooth scrolling which is not what I want. Any help would be great, thanks.

Checkout this answer and it's comments, and the MDN page on the wheel event.
Looks like you can bind to the event like this:
$(window).on('wheel', function(event){
But that might be overwhelming as it's each "click" of the mousewheel.
See this fiddle. Only tested in Chrome.

Jquery scroll-to not scrolling

I'm trying to have it so when the user clicks a link it scrolls down so that the blue area is off the top of the page.
This is my jsFiddle
I think the code would be something like this:
$("#scroll").click(function() {
$('html, body').animate({
scrollTop: $("#jumbo").offset().bottom
}, 2000);
});
However it doesn't seem to work. Can anyone tell me where I have gone wrong please?

offset() only exposes the top and left properties. To get the bottom you need to add the height to top:
$('html, body').animate({
scrollTop: $(".jumbo").offset().top + $(".jumbo").height()
}, 2000);
Updated fiddle
Also, note that in your example jumbo is a class, not an id.

I think you're looking for scrolling to the first .midheight div:
$("#scroll").click(function() {
$('html, body').animate({
scrollTop: $(".midheight:eq(0)").offset().top
}, 2000);
});
Updated Fiddle

You don't need to use jQuery for this, you can simply use anchors.
Anchors are links but with hashes, for example:
<a name="scroll_down"></a>
These can then be targeted with a normal link, but set out like this:
Clicking the link will scroll you down the page to where the anchor is put in your HTML.
For the slow animation that you're after, you can look here and use his code. All credit to him for the code, works great.
Here is your updated fiddle
The good thing about this, is you can easily use to it have links to each of the "features" you had in the fiddle and have an anchor above each so the user can scroll down to the appropriate are easily, and without the need for you to have repeating jQuery code.

Slide DIV Right to Left with jQuery

I'm using jQuery code to animate a div from left to right on load, and then by clicking the close button the div hides from right to left. It's working fine, it's just not going left to right horizontally but diagonally. What am I doing wrong? Here's an example of the code I'm using http://jsfiddle.net/N8NpE/2/
$(function(){
$("#content-box").hide(0).delay(0).show(500);
});
$(function(){
$("#ClosePanel").click(function () {
$("#content-box").hide("slow");
});
});
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

You could try using .animate() instead of .hide() and .show(). This will give you a little more control over everything.
$("#content-box").animate({'width': 240},500);
And to close, include a callback function to set display to none after the animation:
$("#content-box").animate({'width': 0},500,function(){
$("#content-box").css('display','none');
});
http://jsfiddle.net/N8NpE/6/

You should include jQuery UI in your script and change your function a little bit:
$(function(){
$("#content-box").hide(0).delay(0).toggle('slide', {
direction: 'left'
}, 1000);
});
Here is an updated jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/N8NpE/4/

$('#content-box').animate({width: 'toggle'});
http://jsfiddle.net/U7wGt/

javascript scroll back to the top

how can I get this scroll back to the top neat thing from this link , just scroll down a bit, you'll see in the bottom right icon(top pointer) that scrolls back to the top on click. Thank you

In jQuery:
$(document).ready(function() {
$('a[href=#top]').click(function(){
$('html, body').animate({scrollTop:0}, 'slow');
return false;
});
});
You can then make links like this:
Back to the top

You can find the script here:
http://www.javascriptkit.com/jkincludes/scrolltopcontrol.js
Although you need to use jquery for this script to work.