HTML Anchors (JS)

[dougal85]

How do you access the anchor in the url with JavaScript?

ie. www.domain.com/index.html#anchor

So say when somebody goes to that address it triggers function x

[JPnyc]

I don't understand the question. You want to trigger something when they click a link? Or when they arrive at a page?

[dougal85]

when they arrive at the page.

like when i arrived at this page i followed the link: http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?p=10800910#post10800910

Which i know took me too; (without js i know)
<a href="#post10800906">..........

How would i get that value via JavaScript? (post10800910)

would i just have to process the URL with JavaScript on a body onload trigger?

[JPnyc]

Is the page they're landing on yours? If so, you can parse the url using the split() method:

var url = http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/show...0#post10800910;

var urlParts= url.split('#');

var postNum = urlParts[1];

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THe variable postNum now contains the value of post10800910

If it's not your page and you can't alter it's code, there's nothing you can do