Geolocation on page load

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Last updated by Nigel 5 years ago.

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February 5, 2020 at 8:14 am #1493503

krzysztofS-2

Tell us what you are trying to do?
Retrieve user location during page load if so initial search results can be filtered by distance

Is there any documentation that you are following? No

Is there a similar example that we can see?

What is the link to your site?hidden link

February 5, 2020 at 11:31 am #1493943

Nigel

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The browser won't let you access the user's location without them clicking an acceptance dialog, and you may not want such a dialog to appear when the page first loads because they may well dismiss that dialog until they have read the page content (that's certainly what I would do).

Once the user has denied permission to access the location it's very difficult for you to get past that, you can't ask again (you have to educate them about how to update the browser settings so that you can use the location).

So, my advice would be: don't do it.

But if you really want to, then the easiest way would be to use the DOM ready event to trigger a single line of jQuery which fires the click event on the "Use my location" button (check in the browser dev tools to see the best way to target the button for selection).