window.location = #anchor doesn't work in IE

Question

On this map:

http://web.pacific.edu/documents/marketing/campus-map/version%202/stockton-campus-2.0.htm

I have an anchor at the top, and I want the page to jump to the anchor when a link is clicked.

I'm currently using

window.location = '#top';

It works as expected in FF, Opera, and Chrome, but not in IE 7.

I've tried all permutations like window.location.hash and window.location.assign() and also scrollIntoView(true) and focus().

How can I make it work in IE?

Edit: Nothing seems to work, which makes me think it's not the syntax, but something about the JS... here is the click event handler... could it be because it returns false? I'm grasping at straws.

// Click handler for each location link
$('#index a').click(function()
{
    hideMarkers();
    location.href = location.href + "#top";
    var marker = showMarker( $(this).attr('data-id') );
    GEvent.trigger( marker, "click" );
    return false;
});

Edit: Assignment to window.location.hash breaks in IE7 and IE8 on pages that were loaded as a result of page redirection via the HTTP "Location" header. The solution is to return a page with Javascript that itself will perform the redirection. See the answer by Joe Lapp.

Answer 1

The location object is broken up into several properties - href is only one of them

Another one, hash, is what you're looking for.

top.location.hash = 'top';

You can also do this without using the location/href at all - just use scrollTo()

top.scrollTo( 0, 0 );