Problem with Anchor link now working properly in IE!

[Quintus Snapper]

Hi All,

I'm having a problem with an anchor link in IE which is working
inconsistantly and I can't figure out why.

On the following website:

http://www.friendlyrentals.com/

If you click on an apartment to go to a detail page, if you scroll
down the page a bit you'll find a section called "Availabili ty". If
you select a different month from the "jump to" dropdown menu, it
should reload the page and then jump down to the anchor located just
above the "availabili ty" header. In IE it doesn't do this, it does in
Opera & Firefox. Also after the dropdown menu has been used, if you
click on the "Availabilt y" link located near to top of the same page
under the section "Further down the page you will find:", it doesn't
jump down the first time you click it, but it does the second time you
click it! I checked the link URL's and they are identical for the
right after the page reloads after the "jump to" dropdown has been
selected, for when you click on the "availabilt y" link for the first
time, and for when you click on it for the second time!

Has anyone else experienced something like this? The HTML is correct
as far as I can see. Is this an IE issue? If so is there some
workaround?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Quintus

[Darin McGrew]

Quintus Snapper <qs******@gmail .com> wrote:

http://www.friendlyrentals.com/

If you click on an apartment to go to a detail page, if you scroll
down the page a bit you'll find a section called "Availabili ty". If
you select a different month from the "jump to" dropdown menu, it
should reload the page

Why should it do anything? I haven't submitted the form. All I've done is
choose an option in a select list. And besides, there doesn't seem to be a
submit button anywhere.

It isn't a good idea to subvert basic interface features (e.g., the normal
operation of forms) with JavaScript. And it isn't a good idea to rely on
JavaScript.
--
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Web Design Group, da***@htmlhelp. com, http://www.HTMLHelp.com/

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[Fish]

Darin,

Thanks for your tip on the use of JavaScript. That aside though, if
you select a different month from the dropdown, it will reload the page
(unless you have JavaScript disabled that is) which by the sounds of it
is what you have.

But it can't be the JavaScript which is casuing the problem. Even if
paste in the URL manually with it don't jump down.

For example, paste this in IE and I won't jump down, in Firefox it
will!
http://www.friendlyrentals.com/Prope...n_availability

Any idea?

Thanks,

Quintus

[Darin McGrew]

Fish <qs******@gmail .com> wrote:

But it can't be the JavaScript which is casuing the problem. Even if
paste in the URL manually with it don't jump down.

For example, paste this in IE and I won't jump down, in Firefox it
will!
http://www.friendlyrentals.com/Prope...n_availability

Any idea?

Maybe it's a problem with the empty A element:

<a id="an_availabi lity" name="an_availa bility"></a><br>

Or maybe it's a side effect of the many validation errors. A lot of them
are because you're using HTML syntax in a document that claims to be XHTML,
so they should be easy to fix (either by switching back to HTML, or by
converting to XHTML properly, if you really want to go that route).
--
Darin McGrew, mc****@stanford alumni.org, http://www.rahul.net/mcgrew/
Web Design Group, da***@htmlhelp. com, http://www.HTMLHelp.com/

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