Question

I would like to add a section to an existing webpage, but only make it visible if the user types the URL with a particular anchor link. Is this possible? Or is it possible to redirect to a new page if the URL has a certain anchor link?

Answer 1

Since you don’t mind using JS, you can listen to the onhashchange event to decide whether the specific section should show.

http://jsfiddle.net/C3kHT/

window.addEventListener("hashchange",function(){
  if(location.hash=="#trap") /*show section*/
},false);

Sorry that I don’t have an IE 8 at hand, so I’m not sure if the fiddle code actually work in IE 8.