Response.redirect and anchors

I have an anchor near the bottom of a page just before a placeholder where error messages are displayed. After the Error message is placed in the placeholder i want the page to go to that anchor.

VB Code:

'Spamming so do this!
            turnControlsOff()
            connection.connect(Application("SQLServerAddress"), objConn)
            messages.DisplayMessage(plhMessage, 12)
            Session("returning") = True
            connection.Disconnect(Application("SQLServerAddress"), objConn)
            Response.Redirect("msgboard_topic.aspx#Error")

In the above code messages.displayMessage places a label with an error message into a placeholder, without using the response.redirect the Error message is displayed and is persistent during refreshes and stays in place if i manually enter msgboard_topic.aspx#Error in the url address bar.

But when i try and use response.redirect the page moves to the anchor but the message isn't displayed.

Any ideas?

It's doing that because Response.Redirect is reloading the page.
Perhaps use inline javascript:

Code:

---

<%
            turnControlsOff()
            connection.connect(Application("SQLServerAddress"), objConn)
            messages.DisplayMessage(plhMessage, 12)
            Session("returning") = True
            connection.Disconnect(Application("SQLServerAddress"), objConn)
%>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
    window.location.hash = "Error";
</script>

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