displaying a page at a specified position

[mantrid]

hello

i have a form about half way down a web page, which posts criteria for the
WHERE part of an sql which then returns the results at the bottom of the
page.
Trouble is when the page reloads it goes to the top of the page again so the
results are not visible and the user is sometimes unaware that anything has
happened.
I could get a message to display at the top to tell user to scroll to
bottom but i would prefer the page to display at the start of the records(in
a html table) . does anyone know how to do this?

thanks
ian

[flamer die.spam]

mantrid wrote:

hello

i have a form about half way down a web page, which posts criteria for the
WHERE part of an sql which then returns the results at the bottom of the
page.
Trouble is when the page reloads it goes to the top of the page again so the
results are not visible and the user is sometimes unaware that anything has
happened.
I could get a message to display at the top to tell user to scroll to
bottom but i would prefer the page to display at the start of the records(in
a html table) . does anyone know how to do this?

thanks
ian

make an anchor line above the text <a name="bottom"></a>. Then when you
specify the page in which to reload use href="#bottom" or full path
href="blah.com/page.php#bottom"

Flamer.

[John Dunlop]

mantrid:

i have a form about half way down a web page, which posts criteria for the
WHERE part of an sql which then returns the results at the bottom of the
page.
Trouble is when the page reloads it goes to the top of the page again so the
results are not visible and the user is sometimes unaware that anything has
happened.

I assume that you are redirecting from the processing page (the page
pointed to by your form's action attribute) back to the page the form
is on using a Location header. You can add a fragment to the URL
specified in the Location header (this violates HTTP/1.1 but it is
mentioned in the errata) so that when the user-agent redirects, it
redirects to the anchored position.

--
Jock

[mantrid]

thanks all
using an anchor seems the best way
ian

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hello

i have a form about half way down a web page, which posts criteria for the
WHERE part of an sql which then returns the results at the bottom of the
page.
Trouble is when the page reloads it goes to the top of the page again so

the

results are not visible and the user is sometimes unaware that anything

has

happened.
I could get a message to display at the top to tell user to scroll to
bottom but i would prefer the page to display at the start of the

records(in

a html table) . does anyone know how to do this?

thanks
ian