jquery hyperlinking like google

Question

Hi, have you ever noticed how in gmail, as the emails are updated in your inbox, you get a hyperlink to it like so:

http://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox/23e0377656b24123

and if you click on that link it doesnt reload the page?

Can you do that with jquery and a datagrid? So that you get links to items in your grid, which is populated asynchronously. Thanks.

Answer 1

You need an AJAX history library - here's YUI's, and a quick Google found this one for jQuery (there are likely others if that one doesn't suit your needs exactly).

Answer 2

Microsoft also has AJAX history manipulation as of .net 3.5 sp1. Click here. Take a look at Sys.Application.addHistoryPoint and Sys.Application.navigate. Actually AJAX-ifying your grid is really up to you.