navigating to local anchor tag with JavaScript

Question

I'm trying to get my Intel XDK app auto navigate to a new DIV with id="page_6" when a function fails as follow:

var fail = function(){ 
    alert("geolocation failed");
    window.location = window.location + "#page_6";
};

However, the app does NOT navigate to the new DIV.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You could try using window.location.href

window.location.href = window.location + "#page_6"

Saying that, simply using window.location (as in your example code) works for me.
Are you sure that your fail callback is being executed?

Answer 2

Here is my working solution. Set a marker div with id to navigate to: div id="a3" /div When a condition is met [mine is in a scripted 'loop with' an int++ creating the background changes and using 'if' to evaluate when I want to navigate to div id a3] add the following script line window.location.assign("#a3");