[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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