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Anchor Tags and IE8
I have a page that has anchor tags. A user clicks on a link that pops up a new window to add notes to the option for a presenation. Once they are done adding notes, the pop-up window has a javascript to refresh the parent page to show that notes have been added to that slide. The list of options on the parent page is fairly long so the desire is to have the refresh return to the anchor/slide that was just modified so that the user doesn't have to scroll back down. This works just fine in Firefox and Chrome but doesn't in IE. It refreshes the page but doesn't go to the anchor. I have seen some comments that IE just gives up right away if the anchor is written yet so I imagine that is my problem. Does anyone have a solution to this?
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digitalwise
Showing the script you have issues with would be very useful
ASKER
This is all I am using to refresh.
<SCRIPT Language="JavaScript">
opener.location.reload();
self.close();
</SCRIPT>
So you need to send the anchor to the popup so it can do
opener.location="whateveru
instead OR save the anchor in a cookie and do
window.onload=function() {
var anc = getCookie('currentAnchor')
if (anc && document.getElementById(an
document.getElementById(an
}
}
I am using ID instead of name="#somename" here. All modern browsers will allow ID instead
opener.location="whateveru
instead OR save the anchor in a cookie and do
window.onload=function() {
var anc = getCookie('currentAnchor')
if (anc && document.getElementById(an
document.getElementById(an
}
}
I am using ID instead of name="#somename" here. All modern browsers will allow ID instead
ASKER
We are using ID as well. However it still isn't working. I tried both of your solutions which work great. But IE just doesn't appear to care. It appears that IE just doesn't wait for the page to load all of the way and it stops looking for the id when it isn't readily available. Firefox and Chrome don't have any issues.
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This works on the initial click to open the new window but still not on the reload from the page closing...