How to get rid of anchor in url when rendering via render_to_response()

[Margie Roginski]

I have a scenario where I have redirected the user to a particular
url, something like:

http://www.example.com/taskmanager/edit_task/5#comment_4

In other words, they are viewing a particular comment associated with
task 5. This comment is say a page or two down (ie, scrolled down)
from the top of the page where there are fields associated with task
5.

Now the user scrolls up to the top of the page, which puts them as if
they were viewing task 5 from its main url, ie

http://www.example.com/taskamanger/edit_task/5

They make some change to the task - say change the due date. But they
make an error which is caught on the server side. When my server code
runs, it calls render_to_response to re-render the page to display the
error. Howevever, because their original url was

http://www.example.com/taskmanager/edit_task/5#comment_4

they are now taken back to the page with comment_4 in their view,
rather than to the top of the page where their error is.

Is there a way for me to get rid of the #comment_4 anchor in the url,
so that they are taken back to the top of the page when
render_to_response() is called?

Thanks,

Margie

[Bill Freeman]

Filter it off when you create the form action? Or in more detail,
probably, in your view
function, create a copy of the url with such stuff removed, easy to do
with python
string manipulations, or maybe just use reverse on the view function
itself, and pass
that as, say, form_action, and in your template use:

<form action ="{{ form_action }}" method...

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[Margie Roginski]

Ah, right. I had actually forgotten that the action attribute was
what was setting my url! What you said makes perfect sense, thanks!

Margie

On Dec 1, 12:50 pm, Bill Freeman <ke1g...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Filter it off when you create the form action?  Or in more detail,
> probably, in your view
> function, create a copy of the url with such stuff removed, easy to do
> with python
> string manipulations, or maybe just use reverse on the view function
> itself, and pass
> that as, say, form_action, and in your template use:
>
>    <form action ="{{ form_action }}" method...
>
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Margie Roginski
>