How to avoid new window opens when using anchors?

kippie · Jan 10, 2003

In the HTML below I use some simple anchors. When this HTML is mailed to "mail.com" and opened in "mail.com" a new window opens each time you press on an anchor. The only good thing is that the position in the new window corresponds correctly to the position of the anchor. Is there a way to avoid the opening of a new window?

This is the HTML:
<html>

<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="generator" content="Adobe GoLive 4">
</head>

<body>
<a name="up"></a><a href="#anchor1">Press for Anchor1</a>
<a href="#anchor2">Press for Anchor2</a> 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
<a name="anchor1"></a>Here is Anchor1 
<a href="#up">Back-UP</a>
 
 
 
<a name="anchor2"></a>Here is Anchor2 
<a href="#up">Back-UP</a>
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
</body>

</html>

Kippie

RISTMO · Jan 11, 2003

Add this to the <head>:
<base target="_self">

Rick -----------------------------------------------------------

http://www.arabchurch.com

kippie · Jan 11, 2003

Hi Ristmo,

I tried what you said, but Mail.com changes things! Your code <base target="_self"> between the <head>-tags is changed by Mail.com into: <base >. I tried alrady several things:

I sent: <a href="#anchor3" target="_self">Press for Anchor3</a> 
and Mail.com changed it into:
<a target="_blank" href="#anchor3" >Press for Anchor3</a>

and I sent:
<a href="#anchor4" target="_self" onclick="self.location=this.href;return false">Press for Anchor4</a>
and Mail.com changed it into:
<a target="_blank" href="#anchor4" onFiltered="self.location=this.href;return false">Press for Anchor4</a>

Is there still hope?

Kippie

RISTMO · Jan 12, 2003

Try this (without the target):

<a href="#anchor4" onclick="self.location=this.href;return false">Press for Anchor4</a>

Rick -----------------------------------------------------------

http://www.arabchurch.com

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How to avoid new window opens when using anchors?

kippie

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RISTMO

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kippie

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RISTMO

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