Anchors not working in IE

@keith28authorMar 28.2005 — #My anchors work in all browsers except IE Windows

Can anyone help?

[upl-file uuid=e42b617b-d181-4fd8-a3bb-5d4a9d62896b size=68kB]test.zip[/upl-file]

@JPnycMar 28.2005 — #No, they are HTML. I will move this to the HTML forum, where you're more likely to get a useful response.

@rhsundergroundMar 28.2005 — #how do you mean, they do not work? they work on my computer.

@keith28authorMar 28.2005 — #I just realized i uploaded the wrong files.

Give me a minute to upload the others.

@keith28authorMar 28.2005 — #OK here it is

sorry about that.

does this work?

[upl-file uuid=9dff3a7e-166e-41c1-ba2d-b835cdfbac51 size=3kB]pe.html.zip[/upl-file]

@BonRougeMar 28.2005 — #What exactly do you think the problem is?

@rhsundergroundMar 28.2005 — #well first off, tables are bad for layout, but i'm not gonna go into that.

try replacing

[code=php]<div align="right">
 <img src="../images/tips/4.jpg" alt="" width="25" height="25" border="0">
 <a id="anchor4" name="anchor4"></a></div>[/code]

with

[code=php]<div align="right"><a id="anchor4" name="anchor4"></a>
 <img src="../images/tips/4.jpg" alt="" width="25" height="25" border="0" /></div>
 [/code]

@keith28authorMar 28.2005 — #that did not work.

it's the same thing just swapped.

@rhsundergroundMar 28.2005 — #on my computer it worked when the code was rearranged. did you make the change in the image tag as well? (img src="blah.jpg" />)

@keith28authorMar 28.2005 — #Why is IE such a pain? all the other browsers I did not have to fuss like this.

@rhsundergroundMar 28.2005 — #i've attached the full code i used that worked in IE 6

[upl-file uuid=c23e2a6b-6875-4007-b026-99505a5c2998 size=13kB]dddd.txt[/upl-file]

@keith28authorMar 28.2005 — #are you working on a windows machine?

@ray326Mar 28.2005 — #From

&lt;div align="right"&gt;
 &lt;img src="../images/tips/4.jpg" alt="" width="25" height="25" border="0"&gt;
 &lt;a id="anchor4" name="anchor4"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

To

&lt;div align="right"&gt;
 &lt;a id="anchor4" name="anchor4"&gt;&lt;img src="../images/tips/4.jpg" alt="" width="25" height="25" border="0"&gt;
 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

"An anchor wrapping nothing, clicked it cannot be." - Yoda

@David_HarrisonMar 28.2005 — #"An anchor wrapping nothing, clicked it cannot be." - Yoda[/QUOTE]I don't think it's meant to be clicked on.

Try this:

[code=html]<img src="../images/tips/4.jpg" alt="Alternate text should never be left blank." width="25" height="25" style="border:0;float:left;" id="anchor4">
 
 <a href="#anchor4">Jump to the image.</a>[/code]

@ray326Mar 28.2005 — #Ah so. IC. But the following from the spec indicates wrappage is still necessary.

Suppose we define an anchor named "anchor-one" in the file "one.html".

...text before the anchor...

<A name="anchor-one">This is the location of anchor one.</A>

...text after the anchor...

This creates an anchor around the text "This is the location of anchor one.". Usually, the contents of A are not rendered in any special way when A defines an anchor only.
[/quote]

@felgallMar 28.2005 — #An anchor wrapping nothing, clicked it cannot be." - Yoda[/QUOTE]

Anchors are not supposed to be clicked, they are the target of a link from elsewhere. You click on links - not anchors.

&lt;a name="dest" id="dest"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 
 &lt;a href="#dest"&gt;link to dest&lt;/a&gt;

The first line of code is the anchor and the second is the link to it.

@keith28authorMar 28.2005 — #it's not working in IE windows.

@keith28authorMar 28.2005 — #So you think the name of the achors are the problem?

why would that be?

@keith28authorMar 28.2005 — #I just tried that. Same problem does no work.

Is anyone looking at the file I uploaded and test it?

@rhsundergroundMar 28.2005 — #I just tried that. Same problem does no work.

Is anyone looking at the file I uploaded and test it?[/QUOTE]
i opened, made the changes that were in the file i attached, and it worked fine in IE6, windows XP.

@keith28authorMar 28.2005 — #I dont see any file that you attached.

Can you attach it again?

@rhsundergroundMar 28.2005 — #[URL=http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4809]attached file[/URL]

@keith28authorMar 28.2005 — #why are you sending this stuff as TXT???

The text does not work

send the html

@David_HarrisonMar 28.2005 — #why are you sending this stuff as TXT???

The text does not work

send the html[/QUOTE]Try uploading a .html file.

@keith28authorMar 28.2005 — #This is the third time uploading the file.

[upl-file uuid=15f095b2-d8f8-4855-80a4-b6ecc002d27e size=4kB]photo-explorer.html.zip[/upl-file]

@rhsundergroundMar 28.2005 — #on your own computer, open the .txt file and save it as "yourfilename.txt" and it will be fine.

@keith28authorMar 28.2005 — #txt and html are not the same

I renamed it and everything.

Why do i feeling like this is such a simple thing and is has become so frustrating?

Are their any html Guru's out there?

@rhsundergroundMar 28.2005 — #i can't understand why it isn't working for you.

try this working example:http://skinneralamod.com/test/testpage1.html

@ScleppelMar 28.2005 — #I think what he ment was save it on your computer as a .html file. Just copy everything from the txt file into notepad (or whatever) and save it as .html

@rhsundergroundMar 28.2005 — #I think what he ment was save it on your computer as a .html file. Just copy everything from the txt file into notepad (or whatever) and save it as .html[/QUOTE]
that's it. sorry if i didn't make myself clear.

@keith28authorMar 29.2005 — #hi, I clicked your link. But page could not be found.

Do you still have the page up?

@ray326Mar 30.2005 — #Anchors are not supposed to be clicked, they are the target of a link from elsewhere. You click on links - not anchors.

&lt;a name="dest" id="dest"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 
 &lt;a href="#dest"&gt;link to dest&lt;/a&gt;

The first line of code is the anchor and the second is the link to it.[/QUOTE]
Regardless, the quote I posted was from the spec and it indicated anchors probably need to be wrapping something, just like links do.

@rhsundergroundMar 30.2005 — #the page is still there, but there is one flaw.

Regardless, the quote I posted was from the spec and it indicated anchors probably need to be wrapping something, just like links do.[/QUOTE]my code does not follow this standard, but that can be easily changed however you want it.

@David_HarrisonMar 30.2005 — #You don't need to bother with <a name="whatever"></a> because you can just apply an ID to something and then link to that, just like the code I posted before which works in all browsers that support the id attribute.

[code=html]<img src="../images/tips/4.jpg" alt="Alternate text should never be left blank." width="25" height="25" style="border:0;float:left;" id="anchor4">
 
 <a href="#anchor4">Jump to the image.</a>[/code]

If you want an online example the go to my site, it uses anchors all over the place. [url=http://www.quiterude.com/comment.asp?blog=21#post14]Random link[/url].

@keith28authorMar 31.2005 — #Have a look at this

[upl-file uuid=714727aa-89d1-4793-8f93-ccdb33f12728 size=70kB]test.zip[/upl-file]

@David_HarrisonApr 01.2005 — #Well the only link to an anchor on the same page is this one:<a href="#anchor4">Jump to the image.</a>And the anchor in question is this one:<a id="anchor4" name="anchor4"></a>And it works. So what's your point?

Edit: Ah, it doesn't work in IE. That's because you have two elements with the same ID.

Here's the other element with the same ID:

&lt;img src="../images/tips/4.jpg" alt="Alternate text should never be left blank." width="25" height="25" style="border:0;float:left;" id="anchor4"&gt;

By the way, alternate text is supposed to be useful, in the event of the image not showing up, the alternate text will be displayed instead.

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