Question

I have two page page1.php and page2.php, on page1.php i click on a href and that link to page2.php somewhere…

in the page2.php there is 4 expander, hidden or close on pageload…

question : i like to pass from page 1 to page2 which of the expander i like to see OPEN

something like page1 href=”page2.php?open=1″

and on page2.php a jquery that retreive the open var, and after pageload expand only that one…

i have research google and come with that : https://github.com/allmarkedup/jQuery-URL-Parser

is it possible to do that without plugsin ?

Answer 1

The specific answer:

var expanderNo = (location.search.match(/open=(\d+)/) || [])[1]

But if your intention here is to link to a specific part of the page, then URL fragment is more appropriate. Given the URL /page2.php#expander1 you can retrieve the expander1 part with location.hash.substr(1).