I might have missed something. Are you trying to move the viewport to the
element with the id after the hash?
If so, would you be able to use:
document.location.hash = "tabs=2";
Does that work?
On Wednesday, March 21, 2012 5:39:08 PM UTC-4, Cliff wrote:
>
> Thanks, Jonathan. I appreciate the hint.
>
> For anyone interested, there are a few more things you have to do.
> If you just add anchor='tabs-2' to URL(), it renders /bla/edit/
> 5#tabs-2.
>
> Not an invalid request, but it doesn't get you to the anchor, either.
>
> So do something like URL(bla, args=[request.args(0), ''],
> anchor='tabs-2').
> That renders bla/edit/5//#tabs-2. Note the two slashes. This works
> but
> only one time, even if you create an observer by using live().
>
> A call to location.reload() fixes that problem.
>
> Here is the complete function. It is kind of slow.
> $('#clickme').live('click', function(){
> alert('hi'); // make sure we are firing on click
> window.location.href = "{{=URL('edit',
> anchor='tabs-2',args=[str(request.args(0))])}}";
> location.reload;
> });
>
> On Mar 21, 4:04 pm, Jonathan Lundell <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mar 21, 2012, at 12:49 PM, Cliff wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > Here is a snippet of javascript code:
> > > window.location.href = "{{=URL('edit', args=[request.args(0),
> > > '#tabs-2'])}}";
> >
> > > Notice the '#' in the args list.
> >
> > > URL persists in rendering the '#' as %23, which causes Web2py to throw
> > > an 'Invalid Request' page.
> >
> > > I have tried using XML to preserve the pound sign, but to no avail.
> >
> > > How can I work around this?
> >
> > Try adding the argument anchor='tabs-2' to URL().
