Question

I have a little problem with implementing in-page HTML anchors while also having bookmarkable URLs via hashbang. The description is easy:

• I visit some URL of my application: http://www.mypage.com/Test.html#!mycontent

On this page there is a lot of text and I need some HTML anchors for navigation. In old-style HTML I’d write <a href="#myAnchor">AnchorText</a>.

• But when I click this link in my GWT application, the URL changes to: http://www.mypage.com/Test.html#myAnchor

GWT Platform recognized the change and throws me back to my DefaultPlace. That’s clear because it can’t associate the URL to a presenter.

So now the (simple) question is: How can I use in-page navigation while also having hashbang URLs?

Answer 1

How do you construct your anchor?
In case you are doing it statically, why now just add the ! to the href?:
<a href="!#myAnchor">AnchorText</a>

Update:
Ok Instead of an normal Anchor you can use a Hyperlink or InlineHyperlink and set the targetHistoryToken value to #!myAnchor:

<g:InlineHyperlink ui:field="diversityLink" targetHistoryToken="!#myAnchor">MyAnchor</g:InlineHyperlink>