# Issue With Externally Linking To Pane Inside Carousel

**URL:** <https://discourse.softpress.com/t/issue-with-externally-linking-to-pane-inside-carousel/10844>\
**Category:** Freeway\
**Created:** [April 29, 2011, 8:31pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/issue-with-externally-linking-to-pane-inside-carousel/10844 "2011-04-29T20:31:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![TeamSDA1](https://discourse.softpress.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@TeamSDA1](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/TeamSDA1)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 8:31pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/issue-with-externally-linking-to-pane-inside-carousel/10844/1 "2011-04-29T20:31:05Z")

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Hi All,

On our sites we are using Walter’s awesome carousel action, but having some issues linking directly to a pane inside the carousel. There are two techniques I am aware of, using a # or ? after your link with the pane name. The # loads the page with the desired pane shown with no transition, the issues is that it doesn’t activate the current pane’s tab. The ? loads the page with the main pane shown first then transitions to the desired pane, good part is that it activates the current pane’s tab. Examples are below.

What we are looking to achieve is a combination of both. Is there a way that on page load the desired pane is shown first with no transition, as well as activating the current pane’s tab?

Option 1: [www.sutherlanddesignagency.com/Test/Chris/Carousel/carousel.html#Pane2](http://www.sutherlanddesignagency.com/Test/Chris/Carousel/carousel.html#Pane2)

Option 2: [Live Lights | 30 Years of Creativity](http://www.sutherlanddesignagency.com/Test/Chris/Carousel/carousel.html?Pane2)

Thank you for your help,

Christian

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**Author:** ![waltd](https://discourse.softpress.com/user_avatar/discourse.softpress.com/waltd/32/2720_2.png) [@waltd](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/waltd)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 1:51am UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/issue-with-externally-linking-to-pane-inside-carousel/10844/2 "2011-04-30T01:51:44Z")

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I would have to add another feature to the Action for that, I’m  
afraid. Maybe there’s a way, but the issues are these: if the anchor  
is used, there’s no way to stop the anchor behavior from happening  
when the page loads – if there’s an anchor, the browser tries to  
scroll to that anchor, so if your carousel is below the fold, then in  
addition to your carousel snapping to the correct pane at page load,  
you also see the carousel at the top of the screen, which is probably  
not what you wanted on an initial page load. That’s why the  
querystring method is there – to work around that problem. So what  
you want is the benefit of the querystring, but without the animation.  
There’s no way in the Glider.js script to do that without the  
animation happening, so this would have to be added. I’m not sure when  
I’ll have the time to work on it, but I’ll keep it in the back of my  
mind.

I know it’s a compromise for now, but you could simply rearrange the  
order of the panes so that the one you want is default, right?

Walter

On Apr 29, 2011, at 4:31 PM, TeamSDA wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> On our sites we are using Walter’s awesome carousel action, but  
> having some issues linking directly to a pane inside the carousel.  
> There are two techniques I am aware of, using a # or ? after your  
> link with the pane name. The # loads the page with the desired pane  
> shown with no transition, the issues is that it doesn’t activate the  
> current pane’s tab. The ? loads the page with the main pane shown  
> first then transitions to the desired pane, good part is that it  
> activates the current pane’s tab. Examples are below.
> 
> What we are looking to achieve is a combination of both. Is there a  
> way that on page load the desired pane is shown first with no  
> transition, as well as activating the current pane’s tab?
> 
> Option 1: [www.sutherlanddesignagency.com/Test/Chris/Carousel/carousel.html#Pane2](http://www.sutherlanddesignagency.com/Test/Chris/Carousel/carousel.html#Pane2)
> 
> Option 2: [Live Lights | 30 Years of Creativity](http://www.sutherlanddesignagency.com/Test/Chris/Carousel/carousel.html?Pane2)
> 
> Thank you for your help,
> 
> Christian
> 
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**Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 4:05pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/issue-with-externally-linking-to-pane-inside-carousel/10844/3 "2011-05-04T16:05:37Z")

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Hi Walter,

Thank you for the explanation. In the future this capability would be great. Reordering the slides wouldn’t work for the situation we are in, so I will use the querystring for now.

Thank you,

Christian

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