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Bruno
Bruno

Reputation: 77

Stay on same tab after refresh

I am developing a jQuery website that has a top menu to navigate through div's. And i want it to stay on same tab that it was before refresh page.

Menu Code 

<ul class="menu" id="menu">
    <li class="menu-text"><h4>Title</h4></li> 
    <li class="current"><a href="#1" data-id="div1">Menu1</a></li>
    <li><a href="#2" data-id="div2">Menu2</a></li>
    <li><a href="#3" data-id="div3">Menu3</a></li>
 </ul>

Content Div's 

<div class="pbox" id="div1"> ... </div>
<div class="pbox" id="div2"> ... </div>
<div class="pbox" id="div3"> ... </div>

jQuery 

var menu = $('#menu');
menu.on('click', 'a', function () {
  var current = $(this).closest('li');
  if(!current.hasClass("current")){        
    $('.current').removeClass('current');
    current.addClass("current");

    var id = $(this).attr('data-id');       
    $('.pbox:visible').hide(600);
    $('#' + id + '.pbox').show(600);
    history.pushState(null, null, '#' + id);
  }
});

var menuId = location.hash.substring(1);
if (menuId) {
  $(menu, "li a[data-id='" + menuId + "']").trigger('click');
}

The only problem is that when i refresh the page the URL still the same (if i was on second tab and i refresh the page, the link will be: index.php#2) but 'redirect' to first tab (#1).

Any sugestions?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 7200

Answers (1)

Martin Chaov
Martin Chaov

Reputation: 874

  • You can put a query parameter in the URL to make it easy for you to understand which was the last active tab.
  • Another options is to use localStorage to save which is the last clicked tab and to receive it from the storage upon page/widget load

First one is simpler and covered here: https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/prop_loc_hash.asp

function myFunction() {
    location.hash = "part5";
    var x = "The anchor part is now: " + location.hash;
    document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = x;
}

Second one you can find here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/API/Window/localStorage Local storage way:

if (typeof(Storage) !== "undefined") {
    // Store
    localStorage.setItem("lastname", "Smith");
    // Retrieve
    document.getElementById("result").innerHTML = localStorage.getItem("lastname");
} else {
    document.getElementById("result").innerHTML = "Sorry, your browser does not support Web Storage...";

Upvotes: 3

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