Fix

assets/templates/reference.njk

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
    declares .d-flex after Reboot's [hidden] rule, both !important and at the
    same specificity, so the utility would win.
 
-   Two things bring it back into step with the page, because the navbar is
+   Three things bring it back into step with the page, because the navbar is
    never the swap target -- every boosted link lands in #content:
 
      a navigation   sw.js appends this template to the fragment with oob set,
@@ -28,18 +28,28 @@
                     line, so one response moves both.
      a restore      htmx swaps the history element straight in and processes
                     no out-of-band elements at all, so the picker asks for
-                    itself instead. worker-ready is in the same trigger for
-                    the empty state below.
+                    itself instead. worker-ready is in the same trigger, for a
+                    page boot.html composed before there was a worker to ask.
+     an anchor      a link to GEN#v3_16 should open with the picker reading
+                    3:16, and the fragment never reaches the worker: a browser
+                    asks for /GEN and keeps the rest. So a picker that arrived
+                    with the page asks once, on load, if there is an anchor to
+                    ask about.
 
-   Neither carries the book: the request does, in HX-Current-URL, which is the
-   address the page is actually showing. An address baked into this attribute
+   None of them carries the book or the anchor. The request does, in
+   HX-Current-URL, which htmx sets from location.href -- the address the page
+   is actually showing, fragment and all. Baking either into these attributes
    is the one thing here that can go stale, because the picker outlives the
-   page it was rendered for. #}
+   page it was rendered for.
+
+   settled is what stops the load trigger looping: the answer to it is a
+   picker already standing in the right place, and it says so by leaving the
+   trigger out of the copy it sends back. #}
 <div class="reference navbar-text {% if reference %}d-flex{% else %}d-none{% endif %} align-items-center gap-1 ms-3"
      id="reference"
      {%- if oob %} hx-swap-oob="true"{% endif %}
      hx-get="api/reference"
-     hx-trigger="worker-ready from:body, htmx:historyRestore from:body"
+     hx-trigger="{% if reference and not settled %}load[location.hash], {% endif %}worker-ready from:body, htmx:historyRestore from:body"
      hx-target="this" hx-swap="outerHTML">
 {%- if reference %}
   <span class="reference-book text-light fw-semibold"