Question: I do not think this is possible but just want to be sure. I am trying to expand a collapsed div (with jquery) when coming from another page. For example: from the home page a user clicks on view press release and it goes to the page with many press releases already collapsed. I want the correct press released expanded. Is this even possible?

Answer: 
It is definitely possible - assuming you control the target page. In that case, you can add an extra argument to your request link specifying the press release tho expand (for example, mypage.html?press\_release\_id=1234)

And then, in the target page (the one with the press releases), and using `getParameterByName()` from [How can I get query string values in JavaScript?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/901115/get-query-string-values-in-javascript), you can easily parse this argument and expand the corresponding div:

```
$(document).ready(
   function() {
      var id = getParameterByName("press_release_id");
      $("#" + id).show();
   });

```
```
var hash = window.location.hash;
$('div'+hash+':first').show();

```

... to be used with something like:
page.html#press-release-4

and a DIV having `press-release-4` as ID of course