window.location screen bump

[dragonturtle]

Hi,

when I use window.location = URL to do a redirect, if I am at the bottom of a large page, upon running the redirect I am bumped to the top of the page before the redirection occurs. It's kind of jarring everytime it happens... is there a reason for this (happens on IE 5 and 6), and is there a way around it?

Thanks.

 

[tweenerz]

I am assuming you have something like the following:

<a href=&quot;#&quot; onClick=&quot;window.location=URL&quot;>foo</a>

when you specify '#' the browser is looking for an anchor and, since you didn't specify a name, it brings you to the top.

you could do the following:

<a href=&quot;javascript:window.location.href=URL&quot;>foo</a>

 

[dragonturtle]

I didn't know about the anchor, thanks for that info. My implementation is different though; I have a function called from the onClick event on an input button. So, my page is something like this:

<script>
function goToPage(param)
{
  str=document.myform.myText.value;
  window.location=&quot;nextpage.asp?p=&quot;+param+&quot;&q=&quot;+str;
}
</script>

<form name=myform>
<input type=text name=myText></input>
<input type=button onClick=goToPage(1)>
</form>

Screen bump always happens when I click the button. Is it because I'm doing the redirection through a function?