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Subject: Using Anchor Name= tags
Posted by: Guru
- [330592710] Tue, Feb 27, 2007, 13:25
Background: If a segment in an HTML page is identified by a tag of the following format:
< a name="code" >text segment< /a > (with the appropriate spaces eliminated)
then the browser can be directed to jump to that text segment upon loading the page by appending "#code" at the end of the URL. For example, if we load the following URL:
http://rotoguru1.com/cgi-bin/mb/comp/324.shtml#1172117949
then when the page loads, the browser will jump to the section named "1172117949". This is how links to the last post in a thread operate in this forum.
Suppose, however, that I want to jump to a specified segment of a page that results from an executable URL, rather than a simple HTML page. For example, suppose there is a script called "goHere.pl" that generates html output, and I want that page of output to be displayed starting from the segment named "start". I can't simply code the URL as goHere.pl#start because the "#start" will be interpreted differently by the script. But, I assume there must be some way to direct the browser to display the page starting from that named spot, perhaps via a javascript command, or by appropriately coding some browser element.
Anyone have an idea how to accomplish this? |
| 1 | blue hen
Leader
ID: 710321114
Tue, Feb 27, 2007, 16:20
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So you don't want to go to part of a page. You want the entire contents of the page to be something you specify? If that's the case, isn't that what you're doing in mbregis.pl?
Do you mean something else?
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| 2 | Guru
ID: 330592710
Tue, Feb 27, 2007, 16:36
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No, the entire page will still be displayed, but the browser will automatically scroll down to the desired section - exactly as it behaves using an "xxx.html#code" URL. I just need it to do that when the html is generated from an executed URL, such as a xxx.pl or xxx.php or xxx.cgi.
mbregis.pl is different, because it completely filters out the unwanted sections.
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| 3 | youngroman
ID: 3751268
Tue, Feb 27, 2007, 17:16
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what if you use this simple javascript-command at the bottom of your page?
location.hash = 'anchorname'
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| 4 | blue hen
Leader
ID: 710321114
Tue, Feb 27, 2007, 17:28
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I think I see what you mean.
page.html#loc
translates differently than
page.pl#loc
Interesting. I'll ask around and see what I can find.
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| 5 | Guru
ID: 330592710
Tue, Feb 27, 2007, 17:45
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youngroman[3] - Bingo! That works.
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| 6 | Guru
ID: 330592710
Wed, Feb 28, 2007, 10:38
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Interestingly, simply appending "#loc" to the end of the query string also seems to work in Firefox and MSIE 7, but not in MSIE 6. If you append the "#loc" in MSIE 6, it just seems to be ignored - although if you then apply the javascript code in [3], the browser address bar does display the #loc at the end of the URL.
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| 7 | Guru
ID: 330592710
Wed, Feb 28, 2007, 11:15
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Never mind. It does seem to work OK in MSIE 6 as well.
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