Use anchor or data-filter in URL

Question

I have a button in a menu that sorts items listed below it. In this case the button says "news". By using the data-filter attribute or naming it some certain way, can I go to this specific page with this button clicked so that the items are sorted in the way that this button represents?

Can I use anything in to not only scroll here, but also click the link? Preferably by just using the URL.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

In general lines:

1. Define a query string that would represent the desirable action (in your case sort). For instance: sort=news
2. On page load - fetch the query string of the page and extract sort . ( see MDN for details )
3. If sort contains a value - trigger the sort functionality

That should do the trick