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Help with Anchor Hash tag
I have a page where I am using a number of Anchor hash tags to dynamically change the content on the page: http://waldronsfarm.com/index.php/products/
the hash tags are the secondary navigation that includes Groundcovers, Cacti, Trees, etc.
The issue I am having is that I am using named anchors to modify the filtering of my table (click on subcategories, i.e. http://waldronsfarm.com/index.php/products/#Groundcovers), but the page is repositioning itself to align the named anchor at the top of the page. How can I turn this off so that it doesn't do this?
thanks
the hash tags are the secondary navigation that includes Groundcovers, Cacti, Trees, etc.
The issue I am having is that I am using named anchors to modify the filtering of my table (click on subcategories, i.e. http://waldronsfarm.com/index.php/products/#Groundcovers), but the page is repositioning itself to align the named anchor at the top of the page. How can I turn this off so that it doesn't do this?
thanks
Jason C. Levine
Don't use the # character. The browsers will always move to the position.
or don't have name="Groundcovers" or id="Groundcovers"
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Should have been a little more descript.
You will need to view the "console" to view the output of this code. Chrome and Opera and consoles built into the browser. Firefox requires the Firebug addon for the console.
You can set up your hashes like this:
#filter-SomeHash
#sort-SomeHash
#SomeHash
You can also add other "actions" by modifying the regular expression... separating different "actions" with a pipe:
filter|sort|action1|action
For each "action" you will need to add a "case" in the "switch" statement (see code).
Hope that helps.
You will need to view the "console" to view the output of this code. Chrome and Opera and consoles built into the browser. Firefox requires the Firebug addon for the console.
You can set up your hashes like this:
#filter-SomeHash
#sort-SomeHash
#SomeHash
You can also add other "actions" by modifying the regular expression... separating different "actions" with a pipe:
filter|sort|action1|action
For each "action" you will need to add a "case" in the "switch" statement (see code).
Hope that helps.
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Thanks that sounds like it is worth a try. I may just try changing Name to ID first and if that doesn't work I'll try the plugin.
Changing name to id wont work... I can save you the trouble. Anything with an ID can be treated as a "named anchor" (even if the element is not an anchor tag). For example, a url like this:
http://www.domain.com/#footer
would cause the browser to scroll all the way down to the footer element (assuming the footer has an ID of "footer")
<div id="footer">...</div>
http://www.domain.com/#footer
would cause the browser to scroll all the way down to the footer element (assuming the footer has an ID of "footer")
<div id="footer">...</div>