Anythingslider breaking with an equal in the hash

[AnnaDamm]

On initializing anythingslider with jQuery 1.8 I get an error "Uncaught Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: =1"
coming from Line

n = ($(h).length && $(h).closest('.anythingBase')[0] === base.el) ? base.$items.index($(h).closest('.panel')) + base.adj : null;

I suspect it has something todo with .closest() being partially removed in 1.8?
As you can read here: http://blog.jquery.com/2012/08/09/jquery-1-8-released/

[AnnaDamm]

Apparently the $(h) part in the line breaks for me.

I change the hashtag with other scripts on the page and have #foo=bar in the query string. The "=" will break at $(h) in jQuery 1.8.

So as a workaround for now i use this:

try {
    n = ($(h).length && $(h).closest('.anythingBase')[0] === base.el) ? base.$items.index($(h).closest('.panel')) + base.adj : null;
} catch(e) {
    n = null;
}

[Mottie]

Actually that looks like it breaks even in jQuery 1.7. It doesn't like the = sign inside of the hash tag.

So, I'll update the code to check for the equal sign... maybe something like this:

h = h.substring(0, (i >= 0 ? i : h.length));
if (/=/.test(h)) {
    n = null;
} else {
    // ensure the element is in the same slider
    n = ($(h).length && $(h).closest('.anythingBase')[0] === base.el) ? base.$items.index($(h).closest('.panel')) + base.adj : null;
}

Thanks for reporting the issue!

[shshaw]

AnythingSlider also seems to break with the popular Hash Bang (#!) syntax for AJAX content.

I have another script on the page set to pull content via AJAX depending on the hash tag in the URL (/Events/#!Kids) and I kept receiving the non-descript error Uncaught Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: #!Kids

It took me a while to track the issue to AnythingSlider, but when AnythingSlider is disabled or not included on the page there are no issues and no errors.

The issue can apparently be fixed by adding in a condition to line 66:

if (o.hashTags) { base.regex = new RegExp('panel' + base.runTimes + '-(\\d+)', 'i'); } // hash tag regex

I'm not sure if that will break hashtag support (I don't use hashes for AnythingSlider, so I can't test it), but I'd recommend you wrap any of those hash functions in a similar condition so that if hashtags are disabled in the options, AnythingSlider doesn't do any processing of hashtags.