What's the URL for a tabbed panel?

Question

I posted this question last week to a topic that I think now
must have been abandoned, so I'm giving it another try as a fresh
topic. I've read everything in the Forums thus far posted about
linking to a non-default tab in a tabbed panel. But even after
reading this documentation (and the page "URL Utils Sample" which I
found to be written in an impenetrable technical shorthand, though
I gave it my best, so please don't refer me back to that), I can't
figure it out. There's also at least one other person on the forum
who is also dying to know the answer, so you'll be helping both of
us! Please assume in your response that you are speaking to someone
with only the most superficial understanding of Javascript -- I
assure you I will not feel patronized :-).
I thought from reading URL Utils Sample that if I typed this
URL...
http://www.georgeglazer.com/prints/americana/americanatest.html?panel2
...then instead of the default tabbed panel (History), it
would take me to the Currier & Ives panel (since the numbering
starts at 0). Right? But it doesn't. It stays on "History." There
are situations where we'd like to be able to send a client a link
that would open, say, "Currier & Ives" or "Folk Art" when they
land on that page.
I've tried putting the scripts in the header, in the body,
one in the header, one in the body, and combining them in one
script tag.
The scripts I'm talking about are:
<script type="text/javascript"
src="../../includes/SpryURLUtils.js">
var params =
Spry.Utils.getURLParamsAsObject(url);</script>
AND
<script type="text/javascript"
src="../../includes/SpryURLUtils.js">var TabbedPanels = new
Spry.Widget.TabbedPanels("TabbedPanels", {defaultTab:(params.panel
? params.panel : 0)});</script>
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Helen

Answer 1

GlazerGallery wrote:
> I posted this question last week to a topic that I think
now must have been
> abandoned, so I'm giving it another try as a fresh
topic. I've read everything
> in the Forums thus far posted about linking to a
non-default tab in a tabbed
> panel. But even after reading this documentation (and
the page "URL Utils
> Sample" which I found to be written in an impenetrable
technical shorthand,
> though I gave it my best, so please don't refer me back
to that), I can't
> figure it out.
You might find this tutorial on my site is written in more
everyday
language:
http://foundationphp.com/tutorials/spry_url_utils.php
David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
Author, "The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3" (friends of
ED)
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