[Javascript] [RESOLVED BUT NOT UNDERSTOOD] Anchor tags not working

[Mike Dougherty]

Do you have duplicate ID?  By changing the source order of the DIV, you are changing the 
relational order of their contents - perhaps your getElementById() call is reaching only the first 
of two elements?  Keep in mind that IE treats name attributes as ID (yeah, it's dumb but what can 
you do)

On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 03:12:11 -0600
  "Fraser Baker" <flbaker at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Changing the order in which the DIVs are loaded impacts the functionality of
> the ANCHOR tags. By juggling the order, I was able to get all the anchors
> working. Makes me nervous though. Any insight into what is going on?
> 
>Fraser
> 
> -----Original Message-----
>From: javascript-bounces at LaTech.edu
> [mailto:javascript-bounces at LaTech.edu]On Behalf Of Paul Novitski
> Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 5:46 PM
> To: [JavaScript List]
> Subject: RE: [Javascript] Anchor tags not working
> 
> 
> At 08:03 AM 3/5/2006, Fraser Baker wrote:
>>The website is at www.lifestylemonitor.info
>>
>>Login using 'demo' for user name and password.
>>
>>The application causing trouble is the Journal. There are several versions
>>of the Journal in the website.
>>
>>To see a normally functioning Journal, click on Journal, then on Show
>>Journal.
>>
>>To see the abnormally functioning Journal, click on Health, the roll over
>>Medical Journal, then click on Show Journal. Note that in this version of
>>the Journal, the link under a small part of the editor page icon (lower
>>right) appears to be working.
> 
> 
>Fraser,
> 
> Ironically, the link appears to be active in Firefox but not in
> IE.  (Ironic because your software recommends that the user view the
> site in IE.)
> 
> Debugging this problem amid your very complex web application is
> daunting.  What I'd do if I were you is start stripping elements from
> your page until the problem is easier to isolate.
> 
> I've noticed in the past that anchors can be disabled in IE in
> certain circumstances if their CSS positioning is left static.  You
> can remedy this by applying {position: relative} to the anchor or its
> container.  See my comments in the CSS on this page:
> http://www.alistapart.com/d/multicolumnlists/example4.html
> 
> Good luck,
> Paul
> 
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