robinadr

A while back I posted about automatically scrolling between internal links with some jQuery magic (which in turn was based on a tutorial by Learning jQuery) but one problem with it was that there was no way for the user to link to the anchor.

The problem was that because the function has to return false in order to keep the browser from jumping straight through to the anchor and skipping the animation. So I added …

I came across an article on Learning jQuery about animating the scrolling between same-page links (i.e. anchors). Basically one block of code does this automatically, but I came across a problem that it was trying to do the same for anchors on other pages, which obviously wouldn’t work.

The line in question:

$('a[href*=#]').click(function() {

This line selects all a elements with a hash (#) in its href attribute, but this also selects links to anchors on other …