Navigation panel won't remember its position

[ridgedale]

I have a test site setup at:

http://ridgedale.powweb.com/THS/sbx_index.php

and I am having trouble trying to resolve an issue relating to the scrolling navigation panel. When the user scrolls down the list and clicks on a link the new page is reloaded but the position in the navigation panel is forgotten and the content jumps to the top. :(

Is there any way to resolve this? Any assistance would be appreciated.

[Dormilich]

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@ridgedale
either it's a new page or it's reloaded...

in HTML there is no way to tell the previous screen position (it's a browser courtesy) and new pages are always opened at the top (unless you tell it to jump to an anchor)

[ridgedale]

Thanks for your reply, Dormlich. Apologies, I managed to post the link incorrectly. Hopefully it will make clearer what I mean?

http://ridgedale.powweb.com/THS/sbx_intro.php

Thanks again

[Dormilich]

it makes the "problem" visible, still the explanation remains.

[acoder]

Why don't you just load the content instead of the whole page when you click a link?

[ridgedale]

Thanks for your feedback, guys. acoder, your suggestion sounds like it might work. Can you give me a pointer as to how I would do this?

Thanks again.

[acoder]

You can either use (i)frames (easy, but ugly), or Ajax (a bit harder, but more elegant).

[ridgedale]

I would like to steer clear of iframes, so how do I go about achieving this with Ajax?

Thanks for your patience.

[ridgedale]

Just to update everyone here I received a javascript in the following post at the webmasterworld javascript forum that worked a treat:

http://www.webmasterworld.com/javascript/4006777.htm

Thanks again.

[acoder]

OK, I did think of suggesting just that, but I thought it'd be much better to avoid that and just load only the content required when that's the only difference from page to page.