Actually window.location is better than document.location, which before JS
1.0 was read only. Anchors only work from JS2.0 on anyway.
Putting a new URL into window.location makes the browser load a new page,
but using an anchor name should only make it scroll to display that anchor
without reloading the page.
You can also (if you want to work harder) take advantage of the fact that
anchors have x and y properties that specify their location on the page, and
ScrollTo() requires x and y values which you can get from the anchor:
something like Window.ScrollTo(Anchors[fieldname].x, Anchors[fieldname].y);
but I suspect this would do exactly the same as Window.Location='fieldname';
and take a lot more typing!
Have fun
Bj
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: [wdvltalk] Scrolling in Javascript
----- Original Message -----
From: "Elankumaran"
The page is very long and the validation fires onclick of the Submit
button
at the bottom of the page. Now if a validation fails for a form field at
the
top/middle of the page, though the error is displayed next to that field,
the user is required to scroll back to that specific location in the page
to
view the error.
I would want to scroll the page automatically to the position where the
error occurred.
How about putting <a name="fieldname"></a> anchors at each field, and
using document.location="#fieldname" to jump to them?
Bj
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