refresh page that uses anchor #tag 1

[onressy]

i have a url like so:

http://www.company.com/page.html

sometime when the users click within the page the url is like this:

http://www.company.com/page.html#end

when the user refershes at this point the url remains with the anchor tag in it, how can that anchor tag get remove upon refreshing?

Thanks

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

That's one drawback of using bookmarks. You can avoid this by overriding any bookmarks with a scrollTo - but this assumes you know ehere to scroll to.

If you're always replacing "back to top" links, for example, this would work:

function patchBackToTopLinks() {
	if (window.scrollTo && (typeof(window.scrollTo) == 'function' || typeof(window.scrollTo) == 'object')) {
		var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
		for (var loop=0; loop<anchors.length; loop++)
			if (anchors[loop].href.indexOf('#backToTop') != -1)
				anchors[loop].onclick = function() {
					window.scrollTo(0, 0);
					return(false);
				};
	}
}

However, for any other bookmarks, you're pretty much out of luck. You should acceot this as regular browser behaviour, and not worry about it.

Dan

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[onressy]

Thanks Dan,

I have an embeded object game in the html that creates these bookmarks for the object to navigate by. When browser refreshed navagation get stuck at end. I never thought it would be that difficult to have a work around for the browser refresh button, in my case. Since the browser has already rendered would it be possible to re-write the url, to contain a 'begining nav' bookmark, so when user refreshes the browser reads from the url box? or whats Your suggestion? thnks

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

You could always put a function call onload that detects the presence of the bookmark, and replaces the URL with the same one, sans bookmark.

The drawback of this is that the page will refresh twice.

Unavoidable, unfortunately, AFAIK.

Dan



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[kaht]

onressy, you might want to also consider using the scrollIntoView() method instead of the bookmarks - you do not have to know the physical pixel location of an element to use that method, and it will prevent the url from being modified

-kaht

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