how to paginate combined with anchor id

Question

I'm very new to Ruby on Rails and learning while trying to fix some bugs on my company website. I'm trying to paginate a collection of records combined with a particular anchor, i.e. when user clicks on the next/previous page, the pagination happens and user lands on a particular section of the page. This is how my code looks at the moment: view ``` <%= page_navigation_links @student_logs, :page %>

``` controller: ``` @student_logs.paginate(:page => params[:page], :per_page => 10) ``` application_helper ``` def page_navigation_links(pages, param_name=:page) will_paginate(pages, :class => 'pagination', :inner_window => 2, :outer_window => 0, :renderer => BootstrapHelper::LinkRenderer, :previous_label => '←'.html_safe, :next_label => '→'.html_safe, :param_name => param_name) end ``` This works fine for my pagination, but I need to fit a reference to an 'anchor id' into this code, like Student Logs, so that when user navigates to a different page the browser navigates the u…

Accepted Answer

I do not have direct experience with it. However, this link shows a way. I could not test but you can certainly do.

```
<%= will_paginate @posts, :params => {:anchor => i} %>
```

If this works, then you can utilize this way in your helper:

```
def page_navigation_links(pages, param_name=:page)
  will_paginate(pages, :params => {:anchor => "#ANCHOR"}, :class => 'pagination', :inner_window => 2, :outer_window => 0, :renderer => BootstrapHelper::LinkRenderer, :previous_label => '&larr;'.html_safe, :next_label => '&rarr;'.html_safe, :param_name => param_name)
end
```

You can replace `#ANCHOR` as you need.

how to paginate combined with anchor id

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