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<li class="lvl2"><a href="/thepage.jsp#panel-3">panel 3</a></li>

The problem is, if you're already looking at one panel of any of the accordions, trying to make a different panel open up with the second level nav doesn't work. It passes the hash tag into the address bar, but it doesn't open the accordion panel unless you refresh the page. So I figured I could solve the problem by adding some jQuery that would cause the page to refresh after 500 milliseconds, like so:

$('.lvl2 a').click(function() {
    setTimeout(function() {
        location.reload();
    },500);
});

Except now that sabotages navigation away from the page to a new page and a new accordion panel. Which tells me the answer may be to take full control of the all functionality of the second level navigation and handle it with jQuery.

So how could I alter this to "store" the URL from the href attribute of the anchor tag, pass it to the browser, and then refresh the page?