In one of my templates, I have a small jquery-based tab box. The tab box's navigation relies on anchors to function, so I have something similar to this in the template:

<ul class="tabNavigation">
            <li><a class="selected" href="#first">$Tab1Title</a></li>
            <li><a class="" href="#second">$Tab2Title</a></li>
            <li><a class="" href="#third">$Tab3Title</a></li>
            <li><a class="" href="#fourth">$Tab4Title</a></li>
     </ul>

unfortunately, whenever SilverStripe parses this template, it adds a slash, '/' to my anchors, which breaks my javascript tabs. Is this a bug or some kind of option that I can turn off in SilverStripe?

When I view the source in my web browser I see this:

<ul class="tabNavigation">
            <li><a class="selected" href="/#first">$Tab1Title</a></li>
            <li><a class="" href="/#second">$Tab2Title</a></li>
            <li><a class="" href="/#third">$Tab3Title</a></li>
            <li><a class="" href="/#fourth">$Tab4Title</a></li>
     </ul>

Thanks!

I found out how to disable the rewriteHashlinks option, but it turns out that the hashes aren't really the issue. there's something else going on with my javascript, I think.

i have the same problem...
how and where did you disable the rewriteHashlinks option?

@derralf add this to your config file SSViewer::setOption('rewriteHashlinks', false);

@willr thanks!
i already found this snippet yesterday.
additional you have to apply this bugfix to /sapphire/core/SSViewer.php to really really disable hashlink rewriting:
http://open.silverstripe.com/changeset/76529

When I on a page like this:

http://www.mysite.com/contact

And in my .ss I write this code:

<li><a href="#tabs">Tab1</a></li>

SilverStripe makes this code:

<li><a href="contact#tabs">Tab1</a></li>

How can I disable, that he place 'contact' in front of # ?

> http://open.silverstripe.com/changeset/76529

This code doenst work ... :-(

hmm... worked good for me, just did these 2 things:

i put the snipped from willr in my _config.php: SSViewer::setOption('rewriteHashlinks', false);

and in my sapphire/trunk/core/SSViewer.php i put the fix from http://open.silverstripe.com/changeset/76529 by replacing the "red part" by the "green part".

(with Silverstripe 2.3.2 stable)