Why does reloading the Dash app always lead back to the homepage?

[Emil]

I have experienced similar problems with anchor links, which I solved by invoking a delayed window scroll,

Anchor links not working on page load

I have a single-page app where i use anchor links to scroll to the desired sections. If i load the “frontpage” of the app, i.e. without any anchors, and click the links, everything works as intended. However, i am unable to “deep link”, i.e. go directly to an anchor, without loading the page first. Here is a MWE, import dash import dash_html_components as html app = dash.Dash() app.layout = html.Div([html.P("Hello world."), html.A("To the end", href="#end")] + [html.Br()]*100 + …