i am working on a site where each product page has tabs to the different areas of info for that product. the tabs are created using basic javascript and are styled using css. each tab has an id.

when the viewer chooses to go to my products page from my main menu, there is a default tab that is the open tab on the products page. it has a class attached to it (.active_tab). what i'm looking to do is have a button on another page that will send the viewer to my products page, but not to the default tab, but to a specific other tab.

my question is: can i have a button that sends the viewer to my page with a specific tab already open? but not the default tab.

any direction would be greatly appreciated.

can i have a button that sends the viewer to my page with a specific tab already open?

The answer is yes.

pass a parameter in a querystring to indicate which tab to open.

BTW you do realise that generating product pages by javascript makes them totally invisible to search engines.