On-Page Anchors not working properly

[Rich]

Strangely, on-page anchors will work on MSIE, but not on Netscape7.2
or Firefox1.5. All anchors are numbers e.g. <a href="#21">TOPI C</a>
supposed to connect down to <a name="#21>begin ning of text</a> .

Could be further complicated by the ASP and SQL designation of URL.
like: http://sampleURL.org/FAQs.asp?FAQMID...=10&bmode=Main
W3C validator said 91 errors, mostly on tables, fonts and graphics,
but didn't seem to complain about anchors. Any ideas? TIA Rich

[Rich]

Mark Parnell wrote:

Deciding to do something for the good of humanity, "Jukka K. Korpela"
<jk******@cs.tu t.fi> spouted in comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.html:

The formal syntax declares the NAME attribute as CDATA, which means
"anything goes" - it may contain any _Unicode characters_ (not just
letters).

Indeed - carelessness on my part. I meant to say character, not letter.

Some people say that Netscape 4, which does not understand ID, still has
a nonneglible market share.

I'm not one of those people (though admittedly to some extent it could
be site-dependent). :-)

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Once upon a time...
Anyway, thanks for the re-education, I downloaded, fixed it so
<a href="#xx">link </a> now links to <a name="xx">ref.t ext</a>.
Thought nesting problem, it's buried very deep, but it works.

Now all I have to do is convince the webmaster to revise it so
it will work in other browsers besides IE. I've been doing the
same thing for five years now :-) BTW this is N4.78 on IBM PS/2
w/win95, also WFW3.11/N3.04 on other hard drive. TNX Rich CT USA

[Norman L. DeForest]

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Mark Parnell wrote:

Deciding to do something for the good of humanity, Rich
<ri***********@ ntplx.net> spouted in
comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.html:

[snip]

ID is a newer arrangement, will find out how that works too.

Using id instead of name has been around since HTML4, which was
published in 1998. All modern browsers support it, as does IE.

[snip]

Including my browser of choice, Lynx 2.7 (just tested). (Whether anyone
would consider that version of Lynx to be modern is another story.)

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[Stan Brown]

Tue, 20 Dec 2005 21:08:48 -0400 from Norman L. DeForest <af380
@chebucto.ns.ca >:

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Mark Parnell wrote:

Deciding to do something for the good of humanity, Rich
<ri***********@ ntplx.net> spouted in
comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.html:

[snip]

ID is a newer arrangement, will find out how that works too.

Using id instead of name has been around since HTML4, which was
published in 1998. All modern browsers support it, as does IE.

[snip]

Including my browser of choice, Lynx 2.7 (just tested). (Whether anyone
would consider that version of Lynx to be modern is another story.)

Netscape 4 didn't support ID, but if I recall correctly IE 4 did.
Netscape 6 id, as did all the Mozilla and Firefox releases.

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