Spry accordion open panel

Hello,
is there a way, that if I have a page without the accordion, and I click on that page a link, that link goes to the accordion panel page, and when it goes, specifically opens one of the pannels.
THank you

Yes. But you need the SpryURLUtils.js files. And you won't find them on Adobe Labs anymore because Adobe abandoned Spry last year. The files have been moved to GitHub.
Tutorial:
http://foundationphp.com/tutorials/spry_url_utils.php
Spry Files:
Adobe GitHub account
Nancy O.

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