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Is it possible to scroll to anchor after external elements are loaded through jQuery.load()?

The scenario is this:
Link from an RSS feed into my website http://website.com/#anchorelement
I'd like to jump/scroll to #anchorelement
However, #anchorelement is loaded using jQuery.load() after http://website.com/ is ready. As a result, using the link http://website.com/#anchorelement does not jump to #anchorelement because the element has yet to be loaded when performing the jump.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to make this work? Is it possible to intercept the anchor jump with javascript and make it wait until the jQuery.load() call is complete?
Thanks!

$(function(){
// so this is inside your document ready function.
// you need to add a callback
$( somecontainer ).load('somecontent', function(){
// after the content has been loaded
// check if a hash is present in the location
if( window.location.hash != '' ){
// find an element with matching id
var anchor = $( location.hash ).get(0);
// if element was found scroll it into view
if( anchor ){ anchor.scrollIntoView() }
}
});
});

If you have multiple content to load, load it one per one using callback function and if you want to scroll on one of them, call function scroll on the last callback.
$(function ()
{
//Get the hash and load your content
var hash = location.hash.replace('#', '');
loadLocationContent(hash);
});
function loadLocationContent(hash)
{
$('container1').load("someContent1", function(){
$('container2').load("someContent2", function(){
$('container3').load("someContent3", function(){
$('container4').load("someContent4", scrollToHashAfterContentLoad(hash));
});
});
});
}
function scrollToHashAfterContentLoad(hash, contentId)
{
if (hash != '')
{
$('html, body').animate({ scrollTop: $('#' + hash).offset().top }, 2000);
}
}

Go to another page and trigger ScrollTo right after

The idea is click on a link to go to another page (index.html) and once you are there go to an anchor div immediately after. I have tried to do this with a trigger event but not working. The scrollTo is working in the index.html but I don't get to do that automatically from a backlink.
Here's my code:
$(".goTo").click(function() {
/* If I'm in the index, it's working fine */
if($('.show').parents('html').length > 0){
$('body').animate({
scrollTop: $(".works").offset().top
}, 1500, 'easeInOutExpo');
}else{
location.href = "index.html";
$(".goTo").trigger('click');
}
});
Thanks in advance.

You should use anchor in in your href location like this : location.href = "index.html#id";
and then get the id you want to scroll to like this : var hash = window.location.hash.substring(1);
So how your code would look:
$(".goTo").click(function() {
window.location.href = "index.html#id";
}
});
// Shorthand for document ready
$(function() {
// This will get you everything behind the anchor !!
var hash = window.location.hash.substring(1);
var tag = $("#"+hash+"");
// Animation
$('html,body').animate({scrollTop: tag.offset().top},'slow');
});
Not tested, and not sure if this will work for you, but at least it shows you the course of action.

JavaScript tabs works only when an individual tab is present

I have created a simple tabs widget, here is a working jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/G3eRn/1/
When I add another Tabs widget "as you will see in the example" in the same page, everything get missed up! I really don't know how to describe it... after looking into it and trying to debug it, I have concluded that it is the JavaScript that needs to be looked at, so I have researched, but didn't really find an answer that would fix it. However, I found that using .each might fix it? so I did try it but didn't work - maybe I used it wrong.
What I am doing wrong?
Here is the JS:
//Tabs Navigation
$('.tabs .tabs-menu a:eq(0)').addClass('active');
$('.tabs .tabs-sections .tabs-section:not(:first-child)').hide();
$('.tabs .tabs-menu a').on('click', function() {
$('.tabs-menu a').removeClass('active');
$(this).addClass('active');
$('.tabs .tabs-sections > .tabs-section:eq(' + $(this).index() + ')').show().siblings().hide();
});

You have to make sure only the current tab group is being affected (using .each):
http://jsfiddle.net/G3eRn/2/
//Tabs Navigation
$('.tabs').each(function(){
var $tabs = $(this);
$tabs.find('.tabs-menu a:eq(0)').addClass('active');
$tabs.find('.tabs-sections .tabs-section:not(:first-child)').hide();
$tabs.find('.tabs-menu a').on('click', function () {
$tabs.find('.tabs-menu a').removeClass('active');
$(this).addClass('active');
$tabs.find('.tabs-sections > .tabs-section:eq(' + $(this).index() + ')').show().siblings().hide();
});
});
And here's a version that's a little more performant:
http://jsfiddle.net/G3eRn/7/
//Tabs Navigation
$('.tabs').each(function(){
var $tabs = $(this);
$tabs.find('.tabs-sections .tabs-section:not(:first-child)').hide().end()
.find('.tabs-menu a').on('click', function () {
$tabs.find('.tabs-menu a').removeClass('active').end()
.find('.tabs-sections > .tabs-section:eq(' + $(this).index() + ')').show().siblings().hide();
$(this).addClass('active');
}).eq(0).addClass('active');
});
The second example uses end() which "undoes" the last selector.
So for example
$('.el').find('div').end().addClass('test')
would add the class "test" to the .el element instead of all div's inside it.

In your "click" handler, you have to make sure that you're applying changes only to the relevant group of tabs. As your code is currently written, the handler code will affect all the matching tab groups on the page.
You can use jQuery DOM navigation methods to do it:
$('.tabs .tabs-menu a:eq(0)').addClass('active');
$('.tabs .tabs-sections .tabs-section:not(:first-child)').hide();
$('.tabs .tabs-menu a').on('click', function () {
// find the current menu group and deactivate all tab labels
$(this).closest('.tabs-menu').find('a').removeClass('active');
// activate this tab
$(this).addClass('active');
// find the tab section corresponding to this tab menu
$(this).closest('.tabs').find('.tabs-sections > .tabs-section:eq(' + $(this).index() + ')').show().siblings().hide();
});
The .closest() method walks up the DOM looking for a match. From that point, .find() looks down the DOM in that isolated subtree.
Here's your fiddle, updated.
Personally I'd use a delegated handler setup so that tab groups could be added dynamically without needing to re-run the code:
$('body').on('click', '.tabs-menu a', function() {
// as above
});

You need to apply the functions to every .tabs element.
$('.tabs').each(function() {
var $tabs = $(this);
$('.tabs-menu a:eq(0)', $tabs).addClass('active');
$('.tabs-sections .tabs-section:not(:first-child)', $tabs).hide();
$('.tabs-menu a', $tabs).on('click', function() {
$('.tabs-menu a', $tabs).removeClass('active');
$(this).addClass('active');
$('.tabs-sections > .tabs-section:eq(' + $(this).index() + ')', $tabs).show().siblings().hide();
});
});
The syntax jQuery( 'selector', node ) selects child elements only inside the given HTML element node. In this case an element with the class .tabs. This is similar to do jQuery( node ).find( 'selector' ).
Using $ is just a way for me to always know, which variable is a jQuery object. For example: var $this = jQuery( this );.
If you want more performance in your script store selected node in a variable (e.g. .tabs-menu a in your code). You may even querySelector to get the elements via plain JS instead of jQuery. The jQuery each on the other hand is very comfortable.
An example mixup of different methods:
$('.tabs').each(function() {
var tabs = this,
links = this.querySelectorAll( '.tabs-menu a' );
/* passing a DOMNodeList to jQuery and filter it */
$(links).filter(':eq(0)', tabs).addClass('active');
$('.tabs-sections .tabs-section:not(:first-child)', tabs).hide();
/* setup event handler */
/* without jQuery, one need to itererate over the list of elements */
for( var i = links.length; i--; ) {
var currentLink = links[i];
currentLink.addEventListener('click', function() {
var currentTab = this;
/* jQuery does the loop internally */
$(links).removeClass('active');
currentTab.classList.add('active');
$('.tabs-sections > .tabs-section:eq(' + $(currentTab).index() + ')', tabs).show().siblings().hide();
}, false);
}
});
For documentation and browser support see here:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/EventTarget.addEventListener
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document.querySelector
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document.querySelectorAll
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element.classList
There is a JS ployfill for nearly any modern feature:
https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/wiki/HTML5-Cross-browser-Polyfills

a href links within tabs not doing anything

I'm using following code for my bootstrap tabs in order to have the #name of the tab in the url, as I want to redirect to a specific tab once some post actions are done, which works fine.
However, ever since I started using the code, all the other links stopped doing anything, it doesn't open the page or display an error, nothing at all.
Here's my code :
$(function() {
var gotoHashTab = function (customHash) {
var hash = customHash || location.hash;
var hashPieces = hash.split('?'),
activeTab = $('[href=' + hashPieces[0] + ']');
activeTab && activeTab.tab('show');
}
// onready go to the tab requested in the page hash
gotoHashTab();
// when the nav item is selected update the page hash
$('.nav a').on('shown.bs.tab', function (e) {
window.location.hash = e.target.hash
//location.hash = $(e.target).attr('href').substr(1);
scrollTo(0,0);
})
// when a link within a tab is clicked, go to the tab requested
$('.tab-pane a').click(function (event) {
if (event.target.hash) {
e.preventDefault();
gotoHashTab(event.target.hash);
}
})
$('.tab-pane a').on('click', function(e){
e.preventDefault()
})
});
I've noticed on some other questions, that e.preventDefault() may cause that, but when I comment those out nothing happens.
How to rewrite the code to keep functionality but make those normal links work again ?

It's looking at all the links with this:
activeTab = $('[href=' + hashPieces[0] + ']');
Change to:
activeTab = $('.tab-pane [href=' + hashPieces[0] + ']');
And also try being more specific with the .nav, since .nav is default for all navs. So this:
$('.nav a').on('shown.bs.tab', function (e) {
Should change to:
$('.tab-pane a').on('shown.bs.tab', function (e) {

How do I prevent the browser from jumping to an anchor when the URL's fragment identifier is changed to it? [duplicate]

We've got a few pages using ajax to load in content and there's a few occasions where we need to deep link into a page. Instead of having a link to "Users" and telling people to click "settings" it's helpful to be able to link people to user.aspx#settings
To allow people to provide us with correct links to sections (for tech support, etc.) I've got it set up to automatically modify the hash in the URL whenever a button is clicked. The only issue of course is that when this happens, it also scrolls the page to this element.
Is there a way to disable this? Below is how I'm doing this so far.
$(function(){
//This emulates a click on the correct button on page load
if(document.location.hash){
$("#buttons li a").removeClass('selected');
s=$(document.location.hash).addClass('selected').attr("href").replace("javascript:","");
eval(s);
}
//Click a button to change the hash
$("#buttons li a").click(function(){
$("#buttons li a").removeClass('selected');
$(this).addClass('selected');
document.location.hash=$(this).attr("id")
//return false;
});
});
I had hoped the return false; would stop the page from scrolling - but it just makes the link not work at all. So that's just commented out for now so I can navigate.
Any ideas?

Use history.replaceState or history.pushState* to change the hash. This will not trigger the jump to the associated element.
Example
$(document).on('click', 'a[href^=#]', function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
history.pushState({}, '', this.href);
});
Demo on JSFiddle
* If you want history forward and backward support
History behaviour
If you are using history.pushState and you don't want page scrolling when the user uses the history buttons of the browser (forward/backward) check out the experimental scrollRestoration setting (Chrome 46+ only).
history.scrollRestoration = 'manual';
spec
info
Browser Support
replaceState
pushState
polyfill

Step 1: You need to defuse the node ID, until the hash has been set. This is done by removing the ID off the node while the hash is being set, and then adding it back on.
hash = hash.replace( /^#/, '' );
var node = $( '#' + hash );
if ( node.length ) {
node.attr( 'id', '' );
}
document.location.hash = hash;
if ( node.length ) {
node.attr( 'id', hash );
}
Step 2: Some browsers will trigger the scroll based on where the ID'd node was last seen so you need to help them a little. You need to add an extra div to the top of the viewport, set its ID to the hash, and then roll everything back:
hash = hash.replace( /^#/, '' );
var fx, node = $( '#' + hash );
if ( node.length ) {
node.attr( 'id', '' );
fx = $( '<div></div>' )
.css({
position:'absolute',
visibility:'hidden',
top: $(document).scrollTop() + 'px'
})
.attr( 'id', hash )
.appendTo( document.body );
}
document.location.hash = hash;
if ( node.length ) {
fx.remove();
node.attr( 'id', hash );
}
Step 3: Wrap it in a plugin and use that instead of writing to location.hash...

I think I may have found a fairly simple solution. The problem is that the hash in the URL is also an element on the page that you get scrolled to. if I just prepend some text to the hash, now it no longer references an existing element!
$(function(){
//This emulates a click on the correct button on page load
if(document.location.hash){
$("#buttons li a").removeClass('selected');
s=$(document.location.hash.replace("btn_","")).addClass('selected').attr("href").replace("javascript:","");
eval(s);
}
//Click a button to change the hash
$("#buttons li a").click(function(){
$("#buttons li a").removeClass('selected');
$(this).addClass('selected');
document.location.hash="btn_"+$(this).attr("id")
//return false;
});
});
Now the URL appears as page.aspx#btn_elementID which is not a real ID on the page. I just remove "btn_" and get the actual element ID

I was recently building a carousel which relies on window.location.hash to maintain state and made the discovery that Chrome and webkit browsers will force scrolling (even to a non visible target) with an awkward jerk when the window.onhashchange event is fired.
Even attempting to register a handler which stops propogation:
$(window).on("hashchange", function(e) {
e.stopPropogation();
e.preventDefault();
});
Did nothing to stop the default browser behavior.
The solution I found was using window.history.pushState to change the hash without triggering the undesirable side-effects.
$("#buttons li a").click(function(){
var $self, id, oldUrl;
$self = $(this);
id = $self.attr('id');
$self.siblings().removeClass('selected'); // Don't re-query the DOM!
$self.addClass('selected');
if (window.history.pushState) {
oldUrl = window.location.toString();
// Update the address bar
window.history.pushState({}, '', '#' + id);
// Trigger a custom event which mimics hashchange
$(window).trigger('my.hashchange', [window.location.toString(), oldUrl]);
} else {
// Fallback for the poors browsers which do not have pushState
window.location.hash = id;
}
// prevents the default action of clicking on a link.
return false;
});
You can then listen for both the normal hashchange event and my.hashchange:
$(window).on('hashchange my.hashchange', function(e, newUrl, oldUrl){
// #todo - do something awesome!
});

A snippet of your original code:
$("#buttons li a").click(function(){
$("#buttons li a").removeClass('selected');
$(this).addClass('selected');
document.location.hash=$(this).attr("id")
});
Change this to:
$("#buttons li a").click(function(e){
// need to pass in "e", which is the actual click event
e.preventDefault();
// the preventDefault() function ... prevents the default action.
$("#buttons li a").removeClass('selected');
$(this).addClass('selected');
document.location.hash=$(this).attr("id")
});

Okay, this is a rather old topic but I thought I'd chip in as the 'correct' answer doesn't work well with CSS.
This solution basically prevents the click event from moving the page so we can get the scroll position first. Then we manually add the hash and the browser automatically triggers a hashchange event. We capture the hashchange event and scroll back to the correct position. A callback separates and prevents your code causing a delay by keeping your hash hacking in one place.
var hashThis = function( $elem, callback ){
var scrollLocation;
$( $elem ).on( "click", function( event ){
event.preventDefault();
scrollLocation = $( window ).scrollTop();
window.location.hash = $( event.target ).attr('href').substr(1);
});
$( window ).on( "hashchange", function( event ){
$( window ).scrollTop( scrollLocation );
if( typeof callback === "function" ){
callback();
}
});
}
hashThis( $( ".myAnchor" ), function(){
// do something useful!
});

Adding this here because the more relevant questions have all been marked as duplicates pointing here…
My situation is simpler:
user clicks the link (a[href='#something'])
click handler does: e.preventDefault()
smoothscroll function: $("html,body").stop(true,true).animate({ "scrollTop": linkoffset.top }, scrollspeed, "swing" );
then window.location = link;
This way, the scroll occurs, and there's no jump when the location is updated.

Erm I have a somewhat crude but definitely working method.
Just store the current scroll position in a temp variable and then reset it after changing the hash. :)
So for the original example:
$("#buttons li a").click(function(){
$("#buttons li a").removeClass('selected');
$(this).addClass('selected');
var scrollPos = $(document).scrollTop();
document.location.hash=$(this).attr("id")
$(document).scrollTop(scrollPos);
});

I don't think this is possible. As far as I know, the only time a browser doesn't scroll to a changed document.location.hash is if the hash doesn't exist within the page.
This article isn't directly related to your question, but it discusses typical browser behavior of changing document.location.hash

if you use hashchange event with hash parser, you can prevent default action on links and change location.hash adding one character to have difference with id property of an element
$('a[href^=#]').on('click', function(e){
e.preventDefault();
location.hash = $(this).attr('href')+'/';
});
$(window).on('hashchange', function(){
var a = /^#?chapter(\d+)-section(\d+)\/?$/i.exec(location.hash);
});

Save scroll position before changing url fragment.
Change url fragment.
Restore old scroll position.
let oldScrollPosition = window.scrollY;
window.location.hash = addressFragment;
window.scrollTo(0, oldScrollPosition);
It's fast, so client won't notice anything.

The other way to do this is to add a div that's hidden at the top of the viewport. This div is then assigned the id of the hash before the hash is added to the url....so then you don't get a scroll.

Here's my solution for history-enabled tabs:
var tabContainer = $(".tabs"),
tabsContent = tabContainer.find(".tabsection").hide(),
tabNav = $(".tab-nav"), tabs = tabNav.find("a").on("click", function (e) {
e.preventDefault();
var href = this.href.split("#")[1]; //mydiv
var target = "#" + href; //#myDiv
tabs.each(function() {
$(this)[0].className = ""; //reset class names
});
tabsContent.hide();
$(this).addClass("active");
var $target = $(target).show();
if ($target.length === 0) {
console.log("Could not find associated tab content for " + target);
}
$target.removeAttr("id");
// TODO: You could add smooth scroll to element
document.location.hash = target;
$target.attr("id", href);
return false;
});
And to show the last-selected tab:
var currentHashURL = document.location.hash;
if (currentHashURL != "") { //a tab was set in hash earlier
// show selected
$(currentHashURL).show();
}
else { //default to show first tab
tabsContent.first().show();
}
// Now set the tab to active
tabs.filter("[href*='" + currentHashURL + "']").addClass("active");
Note the *= on the filter call. This is a jQuery-specific thing, and without it, your history-enabled tabs will fail.

This solution creates a div at the actual scrollTop and removes it after changing hash:
$('#menu a').on('click',function(){
//your anchor event here
var href = $(this).attr('href');
window.location.hash = href;
if(window.location.hash == href)return false;
var $jumpTo = $('body').find(href);
$('body').append(
$('<div>')
.attr('id',$jumpTo.attr('id'))
.addClass('fakeDivForHash')
.data('realElementForHash',$jumpTo.removeAttr('id'))
.css({'position':'absolute','top':$(window).scrollTop()})
);
window.location.hash = href;
});
$(window).on('hashchange', function(){
var $fakeDiv = $('.fakeDivForHash');
if(!$fakeDiv.length)return true;
$fakeDiv.data('realElementForHash').attr('id',$fakeDiv.attr('id'));
$fakeDiv.remove();
});
optional, triggering anchor event at page load:
$('#menu a[href='+window.location.hash+']').click();

I have a simpler method that works for me. Basically, remember what the hash actually is in HTML. It's an anchor link to a Name tag. That's why it scrolls...the browser is attempting to scroll to an anchor link. So, give it one!
Right under the BODY tag, put your version of this:
<a name="home"></a><a name="firstsection"></a><a name="secondsection"></a><a name="thirdsection"></a>
Name your section divs with classes instead of IDs.
In your processing code, strip off the hash mark and replace with a dot:
var trimPanel = loadhash.substring(1); //lose the hash
var dotSelect = '.' + trimPanel; //replace hash with dot
$(dotSelect).addClass("activepanel").show(); //show the div associated with the hash.
Finally, remove element.preventDefault or return: false and allow the nav to happen. The window will stay at the top, the hash will be appended to the address bar url, and the correct panel will open.

I think you need to reset scroll to its position before hashchange.
$(function(){
//This emulates a click on the correct button on page load
if(document.location.hash) {
$("#buttons li a").removeClass('selected');
s=$(document.location.hash).addClass('selected').attr("href").replace("javascript:","");
eval(s);
}
//Click a button to change the hash
$("#buttons li a").click(function() {
var scrollLocation = $(window).scrollTop();
$("#buttons li a").removeClass('selected');
$(this).addClass('selected');
document.location.hash = $(this).attr("id");
$(window).scrollTop( scrollLocation );
});
});

If on your page you use id as sort of an anchor point, and you have scenarios where you want to have users to append #something to the end of the url and have the page scroll to that #something section by using your own defined animated javascript function, hashchange event listener will not be able to do that.
If you simply put a debugger immediate after hashchange event, for example, something like this(well, I use jquery, but you get the point):
$(window).on('hashchange', function(){debugger});
You will notice that as soon as you change your url and hit the enter button, the page stops at the corresponding section immediately, only after that, your own defined scrolling function will get triggered, and it sort of scrolls to that section, which looks very bad.
My suggestion is:
do not use id as your anchor point to the section you want to scroll to.
If you must use ID, like I do. Use 'popstate' event listener instead, it will not automatically scroll to the very section you append to the url, instead, you can call your own defined function inside the popstate event.
$(window).on('popstate', function(){myscrollfunction()});
Finally you need to do a bit trick in your own defined scrolling function:
let hash = window.location.hash.replace(/^#/, '');
let node = $('#' + hash);
if (node.length) {
node.attr('id', '');
}
if (node.length) {
node.attr('id', hash);
}
delete id on your tag and reset it.
This should do the trick.

This worked for me using replaceState:
$('a[href^="#"]').click(function(){
history.replaceState({}, '', location.toString().replace(/#.*$/, '') + $(this).attr('href'));
});

Only add this code into jQuery on document ready
Ref : http://css-tricks.com/snippets/jquery/smooth-scrolling/
$(function() {
$('a[href*=#]:not([href=#])').click(function() {
if (location.pathname.replace(/^\//,'') == this.pathname.replace(/^\//,'') && location.hostname == this.hostname) {
var target = $(this.hash);
target = target.length ? target : $('[name=' + this.hash.slice(1) +']');
if (target.length) {
$('html,body').animate({
scrollTop: target.offset().top
}, 1000);
return false;
}
}
});
});