Re: [Webware-discuss] accessing URI anchor #fragments

[Ian B. <ia...@co...>]

On Fri, 2002-08-23 at 15:56, Tavis Rudd wrote:
> On August 23, 2002 01:42 pm, Ian Bicking wrote:
> > You're definitely right on this.  I wonder, though, if there's a way to
> > access the fragment through JavaScript?  I can't remember why, but I've
> > wanted to do this before.
> 
> window.location.hash.
> 
> I'm working on a page that has a listing of many items, one per row.  Each row 
> has a form so that the user can modify metadata.  When the user saves their 
> changes the forms will post back to the same page.  I wanted to reload the 
> page on the specific row the user was looking at, rather than reloading at 
> the top of the page.  If I set each form's action on the WebKit side I 
> couldn't do that as I didn't have access to the #fragment.  In the end, I 
> used the form's onSubmit event handler to set theForm.action = 
> window.location.href before submitting.

I was doing something like this.  It was a pain to get working, but it
involved hitting a link that make a popup window go up, and it saved
where the document was scrolled to.  Then when you submitted in the form
in the popup window, it reloaded the master window (with a new URL, to
force reload), which involved a little (dynamic) Javascript that got run
on page load, which rescrolled the page back to where it was.  If you
want it I can dig up the code -- not much code, and I remember the were
problems which I don't know if I fixed (on some platforms), but it
seemed like the best way to do it.  

  Ian