ASP.NET Core return View navigate to anchor

Question

At the end of my controller method, I am returning a view with a viewmodel

return View(viewModel);

This works fine and opens the corresponding view.

I now want to jump to an anchor which I normally can by adding #myanchor to the URL. But I couldn't find a way to do this via the return View(...); .

Is this somehow possible?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You can't do this using View(), however there is another solution. Create a viewbag just before, and assign it anchor value:

ViewBag.AnchorValue = "#myanchor";
return View(viewModel);

Then, in your front view

$(document).ready(function () {
    var anchor = document.getElementById('@Viewbag.AnchorValue');
    anchor.scrollIntoView(true);
});