[thelist] anchors in IE
deke
web at master.gen.in.us
Fri Mar 9 21:21:15 CST 2001
On 9 Mar 2001, at 13:25, Ben Henick wrote:
> > 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.
Not only do you need a closing tag, but you need something *between*
the tags. An will do, but the HTML specification warns:
Note. User agents should be able to find anchors created by empty A
elements, but some fail to do so. For example, some user agents may
not find the "empty-anchor" in the following HTML fragment:
<A name="empty-anchor"></A>
deke
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