OT Passing parameters to a link with an anchor

["Collins, Jim" <ji...@uk.nomura.com>]

Hi,

Appologies for the off topic posting. 

I have the following link in a page that works fine:

<a name="notcurrent"
href="/itinerary/updatenode.do?id=1111&expanded=true">Trip</a>

What I would like to do though is add an anchor so that I go to a particular
point in the page so I tried including an anchor like this:

<a name="notcurrent"
href="/itinerary/updatenode.do#current?id=1111&expanded=true">Trip</a>

The problem is that now I can't access any of the attributes,
request.getParameter("id") now returns null.

Does anyone know if this is possible.

Thanks

Jim.


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Re: OT Passing parameters to a link with an anchor

[Nikola Milutinovic <Ni...@ev.co.yu>]

> I have the following link in a page that works fine:
> 
> <a name="notcurrent"
> href="/itinerary/updatenode.do?id=1111&expanded=true">Trip</a>
> 
> What I would like to do though is add an anchor so that I go to a particular
> point in the page so I tried including an anchor like this:
> 
> <a name="notcurrent"
> href="/itinerary/updatenode.do#current?id=1111&expanded=true">Trip</a>

This looks ugly, but I understand what you're trying to achieve. Have you tried reversing the order?

<a href="/itinerary/updatenode.do?id=1111&expanded=true#current">Trip</a>

If I understand correctly, "#..." part is interpreted (or ignored) by the browser. So, the browser should cut off everything after the "#"sign, send request for the first part and jump to an anchor defined by the second part. So, in your case, the browser is cutting off the "current?id=1111&expanded=true" and expecting an anchor in the resulting page.

Nix.