Question

I have a div that drops down and appears using jQuery when a user clicks on a specific link. Would it be possible to activate this script on page load if the URL ends in a certain hashtag?

To be more specific. My site has a panel on every page that contains a form users fill out to request a quote on our products. If a user visits a product page where the URL is http://mysite.com/product/ipod#quote, I’d like for my javascript activated panel to activate on page load.

And to be clear, the hashtag will not be a location on my page.

Answer 1

$(function(){
  if(document.location.hash.search('hash') !== -1){
    $('a#with-id').trigger('click');
  }
});

hash is the name of the hash
a#with-id is the selector of the link

if the “hash” is the only value in your hash, you can simply compare with document.location.hash === '#hash'