Open to a section of a dynamic page?

[kellyblueyz]

I have been trying to figure out how to do this and I don't see it. Is there a way to generate a HTML page in CGI and have the browser focus move to a certain section? As if you were using the href NAME attribute.
(<a href=#section_name>).

My web survey has links to a side survey (this so people don't have to wade thru questions that don't pertain to them) but when the user "returns to survey", I don't know how to get it go back to the bottom of the page when it generates it. This is causing people to miss questions.

Thanks for any help or advice!

[KevinADC]

However you do it on a static html page is the same way you do it with a dynamic page. To force the jump though you have to use javascript (although I don't know how myself) or append the name of the anchor you want the browser to jump to on the end of the url of the page.

http://www.example.com/survey.html#anchor_name

[kellyblueyz]

Hi,
Thanks for the suggestion. I do try to access the page with the anchor as you have shown but it doesn't work. My guess is that is because the page doesn't exist when I call the script and so there is no anchor to go to until the page is generated.

Thanks I'll keep trying to figure something out :)

[rwedge]

Since you need to handle this client side, you could use Javascript to target the anchor when the document loads<script type="text/javascript">
/*<![CDATA[*/
window.onload = function() {
location.href = '#target_id';
}
/*]]>*/
</script>

....

<a id="target_id"></a>

[kellyblueyz]

Thanks! I will give that a try. It will really help!

[KevinADC]

Hi,
Thanks for the suggestion. I do try to access the page with the anchor as you have shown but it doesn't work. My guess is that is because the page doesn't exist when I call the script and so there is no anchor to go to until the page is generated.

Thanks I'll keep trying to figure something out :)

As far as I know it should work. Wether a page is static or dynamic should be the same.