I'm using Jquery.Localscroll to move the window smoothly between anchors. How would you change the URL when the page loads to include an anchor link so it scrolls smoothly to a section when the page loads.
Or is there a better way to scroll to a section when the document loads.
Thanks.
Obviously if you specify the anchor to scroll to in the tradional way:
<a href="yourURL#someanchor">Link</a>
Then the browser will scroll automatically.
If your intention is for the browser to load the page and then have your code kick in to do a smooth (animated) scroll to a particular anchor then something like this would work:
// on calling page
<a href="yourURL?scrollto=someanchor">Link</a>
// on "yourURL" page:
$(document).ready(function() {
// check for "scrollto" parameter and if it exists
// use Localscroll to move to specified anchor
var match = /[?&]scrollto(?:=([^&]*))?/.exec(window.location.search);
if( match != null ){
var anchor = match[1];
// your code to scroll to anchor here
}
});