Question

a link with a hash to my page,

http://www.mydomain.com/somewhere/page.html#somehash

does not align itself correctly because the ID somehash does not exist in the uploaded page.html. the ID is created by in the onload script and added through the DOM. the ID does not exist on the page until that part of the onload script has completed.

moving within the page using different hashes works fine, since all the ID’s are already in place.

how do I instruct the browser to re-align (as versus reload) itself at the end of the onload script?

Answer 1

at the end of the onload

var hash = window.location.hash;
window.location.hash = '';
window.location.hash = hash;

this seems to work ok