Chrome 39 scrolls to tab anchor on click

[ken487]

In chrome 39 on Xubuntu the browser scrolls the page to the tab anchor (eg, #tab-1) when you click it. It did't do that in chrome 32 or any other browser I tested it in.

[ahendri]

This hash jump problem does also occur in other browsers. There are solutions to fix it, but most are complicated, blow up the code and might cause side-effects.
Instead I proposed a patch to use the modern history API for browsers that support it and to only fallback to manipulation the location directly.
See: #203

[chtef]

Hello ahendri, just want to mention that the fix doesn't seem to work with the latest Chrome version (39). It actually makes the browser jump around even more when I click on tabs. Any suggestion? Thanks.

[chtef]

Nevermind - my bad. I didn't port your code properly. It seems to work now - thanks.

[pascalBokBok]

@JangoSteve will there be a release with this fix?

[pathetix]

@ahendri Thanks for the pushState fix. Hopefully this will be merged in the main branch 👍

[tD3rk]

This fix works well for when a tab is clicked, however it does not apply to page load of a link. So if you were to click a link to http://website.com/page#tab2 the previous undesirable behavior would still be in effect.

[mvdepot]

The fix did not change the jump issue in chrome 39 when using ajax.
<li class="tab"><a href="ajax1.txt" data-target="#tabs-ajax-html">tab1</A></LI>

[ahendri]

Agreed that this does not fix all issues, but at least for me it would still be an improvement.

I like the simplicity of the project and would like to continue using it, but not being sure if it is still under active leadership I am a little reluctant to spend too much time on proposing more fixes.

[Craigy-]

EasyTabs doesn't work properly wtih this fix if page has <base> tag... At least on webkit.

[Craigy-]

ahendri, I answered you on the commit's page

[Craigy-]

ahendri, your fix has helped. I think it's necessary to commit.

[Craigy-]

So, would you make a new commit?

[ahendri]

I am actually not really feeling comfortable pushing this as I wasn't able to test give it a try at least in all the common browsers. Still I will make a change request now and hope for comments if something does not work out allright

[SimonVerboven]

We are actually using easytabs on a project and are experiencing the same issue on Chrome 46.x .. just before I updated, I was on Chrome 45.x and there weren't any issues on that version. Seems pretty odd as I wouldn't expect any major code changes to have happened to cause this.

Is there a fix for this or not really?

[melcak]

+1

[Aleserche]

+1

[jmp909]

I think it might be related to this. #203 (comment)

My browser was jumping to somewhere it shouldn't be, because it's trying to be helpful and show you the content , which of course is not what we need it to do and actually was doing it incorrectly.

Could be a separate issue though, but it's definitely a recent browser change as I wasn't having issues with easytabs on my site until recently

The shim fix works for me, but again my problem is slightly different.