Appending a dynamic URL with # anchor without adding pages to history

[Riddler]

Hi there!

I've been searching for days across loads of forums to try and find an answer to this. I've read some posts that seem to get near a solution but they aren't quite what I need.

 

I have installed a neat little piece of code on my site called codaslider http://www.ndoherty.biz/tag/coda-slider/.  I originally had problems with navigating around the tabs as every link sent the page back to the root;

instead of mysite.com/page.php?thispage_id=42#anchor2

it would navigate to mysite.com/#anchor2

 

I got around this by adding +location.href+ into the link i.e;

ul.append('<li class="tab' + (n+1) + '"><a href="'+location.href+'#' + (n+1) + '">' + $(this).find(settings.panelTitleSelector).text() + '</a></li>');

 

Navigation works and the tabs move about now BUT it adds a new page to the browser's history every time a new #anchor is clicked. I would like the #anchors to be clickable without adding another page to the browser's history.

 

Is this possible?

 

All help is greatly appreciated!

Tim. 

[trq]

Have you looked at the documentation? Ive never used this piece of Js yet was able to track down what you are looking for in less than 30 seconds.

[Riddler]

I've read some info at http://www.w3schools.com/jquery/jquery_ref_html.asp and suspect I need to change something to do with ul.append but just cannot get the code to work as I want!

 

I'm guessing it took you 30 seconds because you knew what to look for, I've got very little idea what I'm doing. 

 

Allow me to reiterate; help is greatly appreciated.

Tim.

[trq]

I meant the documentation for the plugin itself, not jQuery (not that w3schools is much of a reference for anything).

 

See http://www.ndoherty.biz/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2, the crossLinking option in particular. You need to turn it off.

 

Not sure how to set options? Something like....

 

$('#yourdiv').codaSlider({crossLinking: false});

[Riddler]

Unbelievable. After days (the total of which must be some ridiculous number of hours) it turns out the solution was under my nose.

 

I'm still not entirely sure how setting crossLinking:false works to prevent a history trail being created every time you click a tab. For the purposes of future reference I'd like to know this works, so I'll forage around the code a little, but for the moment I'm very happy! 

 

Thank-you thorpe for the pointer, I really appreciate your efforts to point out this ultra simple (as it turns out) fix!

 

Cheers, Tim. 

 

 

[haku]

I haven't looked at the code, but it probably adds the hash to allow for deeplinking (i.e. bookmarking a specific selection in the slider) which can also be good for SEO. It's probably on for default, but they appear to give you an option to turn it off.