# Link\_to and fragment identifiers

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/link-to-and-fragment-identifiers/61777>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 27, 2006, 1:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/link-to-and-fragment-identifiers/61777 "2006-05-27T01:53:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![johnk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@johnk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johnk)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2006, 1:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/link-to-and-fragment-identifiers/61777/1 "2006-05-27T01:53:02Z")

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Fragment identifiers, it took me 30 minutes just to figure out what  
they are called.

I would like to be able to create url that looks like this:  
post/view/id#comments

How do I do that with a link\_to function?

link\_to “Comments”, :controller =\> “post”, :action =\> “view”, :id =\>  
post.id ???

Thanks guys! 🙂

John K.  
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**Author:** ![johnk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@johnk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johnk)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2006, 3:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/link-to-and-fragment-identifiers/61777/2 "2006-05-27T03:39:59Z")

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On Friday, May 26, 2006, at 7:50 PM, John K. wrote:

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link\_to “Comments”, :controller =\> “post”, :action =\> “view”, :id =\>  
post.id, :anchor=\>‘comments’

\_Kevin

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**Author:** ![johnk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@johnk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johnk)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2006, 6:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/link-to-and-fragment-identifiers/61777/3 "2006-05-27T18:41:22Z")

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John K. wrote:

> Fragment identifiers, it took me 30 minutes just to figure out what they  
> are called.
> 
> I would like to be able to create url that looks like this:  
> post/view/id#comments
> 
> How do I do that with a link\_to function?
> 
> link\_to “Comments”, :controller =\> “post”, :action =\> “view”, :id =\>  
> post.id ???

Use :anchor, e.g.

link\_to “Comments”,  
:controller =\> “post”,  
:action =\> “view”,  
:id =\> post.id,  
:anchor =\> “comments”

–  
Philip R.  
[http://tzinfo.rubyforge.org/](http://tzinfo.rubyforge.org/) – DST-aware timezone library for Ruby