Need anchors to direct to current document ID

Hi All,

This is my first post so please go easy on me if i’m being a noob...

I’m putting together my first site(s) with MODx (I chose it because I have the skills in XHTML/CSS and a little JavaScript, and MODx is far and away the coolest solution for a nicely designed site without naff templates and my client loves it too! - but my knowledge of PHP in particular is close to _, so can anyone please offer a solution to my problem - it should be a simple one I think.

I have a ’back to top’ button for long pages, currently stored as a chunk so I can just add it anywhere it is needed, but the anchor ’#top’ always redirects me to that anchor on the index page and not the current page. I figure I just need to get the current document id and inject it somewhere, but I just can’t seem to figure out the right combo and placement. I’m using friendly URLs if that has any bearing on it. Thanks in advance.

You’ll need to reference the document link, i.e. [~34~]#, or [~[*id*]~]# for current page. You can also use a plugin like AnchorsAway, which does the same thing automatically, and can easily be customized as needed.

One gotcha, be aware that with the AnchorsAway and the [~[*id*]~] method, the links will not reference the proper page if they appear in content summarized by Ditto or a similar method, since the current id would not be for the original page it is intended to be rendered on.

Ouch, that was just too easy - I was searching for all sorts of crazy document ID related stuff and the fix was just a couple of keystrokes away - still getting used to where to look on the MODx site for stuff too... A case of couldn’t see the woods for the trees.

Thanks so much OG, it works perfectly now.