Anchor not working in Firefox

grahamor · 24-08-2007 12:44PM #1

Hi, i have a link on a page :

<a href="#whatsIncluded" class="whatsIncluded">Whats Included ?</a>

then further down the page i have :

<a name="whatsIncluded"></a>

When i click the link in IE6 or IE7 it jumps down to the anchor but it doesnt do this in Firefox

Any ideas ?

Thanks

CoNfOuNd · 24-08-2007 01:29PM

Works fine for me using FF.

What's your sites URL?

forbairt · 24-08-2007 02:20PM

have you possibley defined it twice and it doesn't know which one to go to ?

grahamor · 24-08-2007 02:36PM

Thanks for the replys

Confound : its an internal site so i cant post the link, sorry.

I think this was occuring because i didnt have any text between these tags

<a name="whatsIncluded"></a>

i changed it to

<a name="whatsIncluded">text</a>

and now it works.

Thanks again

Malice · 25-08-2007 10:26AM

Glad you figured it out! One small tip is if you don't want to have text in the named anchor link, add a non breaking space. Do something like:
[PHP]<a name="whatsIncluded"> </a>[/PHP]
That way the link will work but you won't have to add text to it if you don't want to.

daymobrew · 26-08-2007 10:52AM

grahamor wrote:
I think this was occuring because i didnt have any text between these tags
<a name="whatsIncluded"></a>

I don't see this in my page which doesn't have text between the tags. I works for me in Windows using Firefox 2.0.0.6, IE 7, Safari 3.0.3 and Opera 9.23. Test page attached (HTML file renamed to .txt as html files are not permitted attachments).

Anchor not working in Firefox

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