How to make a page open at the top after refreshing/reloading by browser?

[Vidra]

Hello all,

I am new, and this is probably a beginner's question. My page opens correctly at the top when called by url. However, when I use the browser's refresh (reload) button, it opens at the anchor that was used last.

Can anyone say how to force a page to open at the top every time?

Thanks in advance.

Andjelko

PS. I would put my page address here, to show what it does, but it seems that that is frowned upon here ...??

[tosaha]

Could I ask why you wouldn't want the reload to bring the user back to the previous anchor?

[StupidScript]

If the user went to page:

somedomain.com/somepage.html

and clicked on an internal anchor:

somedomain.com/somepage.html#someanchor

and then refreshed the page, the refresh would request:

somedomain.com/somepage.html#someanchor

which is why it jumps to the same position in the page. That's the nature of refresh/reload ... get whatever is in the address bar, again. You can't do anything about that from your end except to fool the visitor into thinking they are doing a refresh when they are really reloading the raw page without the anchor reference, like:

<a href="somepage.html">Refresh This Page</a>

That's about all you've got. If they use their browser's refresh/reload button, it's in the hands of the browser.

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Using Javascript, you could add an event trigger that detects a reload event, like setting a cookie and checking for the same page request then modifying that request to go to the root page, or something. But there is no "onreload" Javascript event to grab, and onunload is unsatisfactory for this (happens both on a refresh and when they click a link to another resource or type something else into the address bar). You can force a reload using "location.reload()", but that doesn't detect a user refresh, so ...
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[Vidra]

Thanks to StupidScript and tosaha for their replies.

If I stop and think about it, I guess I don't really need to have the page open at the top when it is reloaded. I guess I concentrated too much on the fact that I did not know how to do it, so I tried to find out how.

But, if that is a) not necessary, and b) not easy to do or even not possible, then - thanks, all is well.

Regards,

Andjelko