Rails - Jun 2006 - How can I link/anchor down the page with #anchor in urls?

I''m trying to expand on a blog tutorial and one thing I can''t
figure out
is how to use anchors within pages.

For example say I have sections on a page with anchors like <a 
name=section1"</a> through <a name=section6"</a>. Using
older non-rails
methods I would construct urls that contains the pound symbol and anchor 
name in the url such as http://www.foobar.com/page.html#section1. 
Another practice I use to use is appending just the pound sign at the 
end of the url to jump to the top of the current page.

I''ve been able to append name/value pairs to the end of urls using 
hashes within link_to statements. It seems the necessary question mark 
is added automagically before the name/value pair get added. I''m not 
sure how to add on to the url without the question mark being added.

Has anyone figured out a way to do that? I know there are a few other 
ways I could present the content using different approaches but I would 
like to figure out how to anchor down the pages if possible.

Thanks,
DAN


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sfdesigner sfdesigner wrote:
> I''m trying to expand on a blog tutorial and one thing I
can''t figure out
> is how to use anchors within pages.
> 
> For example say I have sections on a page with anchors like <a 
> name=section1"</a> through <a name=section6"</a>.
Using older non-rails
> methods I would construct urls that contains the pound symbol and anchor 
> name in the url such as http://www.foobar.com/page.html#section1. 
> Another practice I use to use is appending just the pound sign at the 
> end of the url to jump to the top of the current page.
> 
> Has anyone figured out a way to do that? I know there are a few other 
> ways I could present the content using different approaches but I would 
> like to figure out how to anchor down the pages if possible.
You can use :anchor with link_to, e.g.

link_to "Comments",
   :controller => "post",
   :action => "view",
   :id => post.id,
   :anchor => "comments"

will generate something like:

/post/view/1#comments

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I''ve been trying to figure this out as well so i hope you (Dan)
don''t
mind if i jump in here also and ask a question.

Is there a way to add the anchor from within the controller action that 
is rendering the page?
basically, i have 3 forms on a page and if the second form does not 
validate i want to add an anchor to the page that references the second 
form so it will automatically scroll down to the errors.

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