I see what you mean,

to do something like that, you'd need to add a named anchor for each
<li>, that you could then refer back to, and unfortunately iUI doesn't
support that

On Dec 22, 12:20 pm, anmldr <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks.  But I guess that I did not explain properly.  I did in fact
> do as you suggested and have a div for all A's, one for B's etc.  The
> list is still long for some of the letters.  So when hitting the back
> button, rather than just returning to that div, I would like for it to
> actually return to the <li> that had the referring link.  If that is
> near the bottom of the div, that is where I would like to return to
> when hitting the back button. Does this make more sense?
>
> Linda
>
> On Dec 22, 9:15 am, awaybbl <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > not sure if I understand the problem, but perhaps this might help...
>
> > break your lists into yet another tree...
>
> > so... on screen one, theres just a list for say... a-c, d-f, g-
> > i...etc, then on second list it goes to a list of links for articles
> > in a-c, if user chooses an article, it goes to that fragment, then
> > when they click back it goes to a-c list, and once again, it goes back
> > to the main alphabet list.
>
> > I had to do this for a jokebook that I wrote that had over 1500
> > individual jokennnn.html pages. my motivation to break it up that way
> > was more due to speed than anything else. and even with breaking it up
> > this way, its still very slow when it slides.
>
> > you can see my jokebook atwww.myhip.com/navigation6.html, please feel
> > free to look at the code (but please don't steal all my jokes :))
>
> > anmldr wrote:
> > > My first page has a lot of links like an index of a book.  I have divs
> > > for each letter of the alphabet.  When I tap on a link in the list, it
> > > goes to a separate page that is a fragment with data that the user
> > > wants to read.  With iUI there is a back button.  If it is tapped, it
> > > goes back to the previous div.  However, since the list is so long, it
> > > would be FAR better if iUI instead goes back not to just the previous
> > > page but also to the previous link which is a <li>.  What can I alter
> > > in iui.js to have it do this?  I know that if it were just a regular
> > > HTML page, I could do this.  I have no idea how to alter iui.js
>
> > > Thanks,
> > > Linda
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