Proper URL forming with a query string and an anchor hashtag
?var=var#hashEverything after # is client side.
Also, look into URL rewriting to get rid of ugly ?var=var.
? should come before the # as noted in RFC 3986:
relative-ref = relative-part [ "?" query ] [ "#" fragment ]Taken from an answer over at Super User (Does an anchor tag come before the query string or after?):
Note that when the URL has both anchor tags (#) and query strings (?), the browser may ignore the query string and navigate to the anchor tag without reloading the page.
It may be necessary to submit the page using a
<form action='webpage.php?q=string#tag' method='GET or POST'> <input type='text' id='q' name='q' value='string'> <input type='submit' value='submit'></form>rather than just a URL link
<a href='webpage.php?q=string#tag'>.