Hi
Can a html link open a floatbox window and automatically jump/scroll down to the referenced target section of the new page
I tried the following code but it didn't seem to work
Can you advise me of the correct codes


On page1.html:
<a name="appendix1"></a>

On page2.html:
<div class="floatbox">
<a href="page1.html#appendix1">appendix</a>
</div>


Thanks David D

Yes, but it will not scroll to a named element. It looks for an element with the specified id. If you change name="appendix1" to id="appendix1" it should work.

Hi i changed on page1,

<a name="appendix1"></a>
to
<div id="appendix1"></div>

On page2, if I right click the link > open in new window > then the page will jump to the appendix1 'morsel of lore'

But when I left click normally on the link
The floatbox window wont jump to the appendix section
On some occasions it will tho but mostly it wont
I tried spam clicking the link and got mixed results

http://www.theringoflight.com/noveltrol/pages/testpage2.html
http://www.theringoflight.com/noveltrol/pages/testpage1.html

I am not experienced in html
Could you advise me on any code changes I should change thanks!

There's a timing problem in the current Floatbox code. Two things are being loaded simultaneously - the animated opening of the floatbox components and the fetching of the iframe content. If the box load completes before the iframe load, scrolling to the #id can fail because the code will attempt a scroll to an element that is not yet present.

I've got this situation fixed in version 6.0.0. It will scroll reliably because it will always wait until both the iframe and the floatbox are complete.

You can get reliable scrolling to an #id in the current version by not assigning a "height" option to the floatbox starter. When no height option is provided, the content will be measured, and to be measured it must be fetched before being displayed. Thus removing "height" from you example will guarantee that the iframe is fully loaded and present prior to the floatbox being drawn, and the scrolling should be reliable.

Ok cool thanks for the information!