Track active/open item in Project Explorer

Hello Jan,

Press the "Options" button in the project view toolbar and enable the "Autoscroll
from source" option.

I'm quite new to IntelliJ (9.0.1 Community Edition) and I wonder if
there is an option to focus/track the currently opened file/item in
the Project Explorer on the left part?

In Visual Studio 2008 I found the option "Track active item in
solution explorer" very useful (see
http://blogs.msdn.com/jannemattila/archive/2009/02/21/visual-studio-20
08-track-active-item-in-solution-explorer.aspx).

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thanks, that helped

I found this page while searching how to enable tracking active item for WebStorm, so decided to make a comment. I eventually found it in this menu item:

I wish this answer was more visible in search results. I had to really go on a quest to find this feature. Many (all that I saw) of the other answers mentioned some kind of hotkey shortcut, which is an not an unacceptable solution to me, because the system should just DO this. And now it does. Thank you for the answer, and for the feature in the editor. :)

It's a part of the official documentation: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/navigating-through-the-source-code.html#scroll_to_from_source.