[thelist] anchors in IE
Ben Henick
persist1 at io.com
Fri Mar 9 13:25:01 CST 2001
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Paul Dewey wrote:
> That should be working just fine. I have the exact thing going on some
> pages I maintain and it works fine. Maybe a URl can be given and I will
> take a further look into it, but tother than that from what you described it
> should be working correctly.
> page1.htm
> <a name="whatever">
>
> page2.htm link
> <a href="page1.htm#whatever">
I find it entirely likely that IE's choking on the lack of a closing
tag. It's true that HREF and NAME are mutually-exclusive attributes for
the anchor tag, but the use of NAME doesn't remove the requirement to use
a closing tag.
Netscape IS rather lax on this.
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