Question

I have a simple jquery script that shows and hides div block:

<script type="text/javascript">'
    $(document).ready(function(){    
        $(".slidingDiv").hide();
        $('.show_hide').click(function(){
            $(".slidingDiv").slideToggle();
        }); 
    });
</script>

<a class="show_hide" href="#">Show/hide</a>
<div name="gohere" class="slidingDiv">
   ...
</div>

It’s working fine, but if the URL contains #gohere I want to automatically show this div and hide it only if .show_hide is clicked.

Answer 1

Set the divs ID to be gohere, then you can do:

$('.show_hide').click(function(){
    $($(this).attr('href')).slideToggle();
});

since your href attribute will contain #gohere, the selector for the slidetoggle will end up being #gohere, which corelates to your divs ID.

EDIT:
for the first part of your question, you can get the current hash tag from window.location.hash.

if (window.location.hash.length > 0) {
    $(window.location.hash).show();
}

You should probably put some better error checking in there, but it should work.