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Link to a page,but 'land' on a specific section of that page?

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LucyL

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Hi,
Is it possible to link to a page and land on a specific section of that page? Can I use an anchor and if so, do I put the anchor in the href of the page that links to the new page??

This is my href that calls my new page
<a href="details.htm" target = "content">

Thank you.
 
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Code: 
<a href="details.htm[COLOR=red]#section1[/color]">Go to section one</a>
Code: 
<h1 [COLOR=red]id="section1"[/color]>Section One</h1>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...</p>
[ul][li]each id must be unique: you can't use the same id twice on a page[/li]
[li]an id must not begin with a number (e.g. id="1")[/li][/ul]

<marc> i wonder what will happen if i press this...[ul][li]please tell us if our suggestion has helped[/li][li]need some help? faq581-3339[/li][/ul]
 
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I'm having a problem with this type of link. I'm developing in HTML Kit and when I set up the code to link to a section in another page it works fine in Gecko mode but not in internet explorer. IE tells me that it can't find the page.
 
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What does your link look like? Could you post that code? Incidentally, you would get more people involved if you'd started a new thread.
 
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<a
href="PuritanBackground.shtml">Early Puritan Beginnings</a></li><li><a
href="PuritanBackground.shtml#section2">Puritans in England</a></li><li><a
href="PuritanBackground.shtml#section3">Massachusetts Bay Colony</a></li>
Then in the PuritanBackground page, first I tried this:

<h2 id="Section2">Puritans in England</h2>
blah blah
<h2 id="Section3">Massachusetts Bay Colony</h2>
blah blah

then :

<p><a id="section2"></a>
<h2>Puritans in England</h2>
blah blah
</p><p>
<a id="section3"></a>
<h2>Massachusetts Bay Colony</h2>
blah blah
</p>

Both ways worked in Gecko mode and not in IE
 
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Unfortunately, IE is a little deprecated as well. ID is correct way to do it in future browsers but right now you should support the old ones as well and use
Code: 
<a name="section2" id="section2"></a>
for best results.
 
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I've never had this kind of problems. Although IE usually is not fussing about this, are you using the same capitalization in both link and anchor? That could mess-up the functionality, since ids should be case sensitive. Anything else... do you have a working example of this on the web?
 
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This code works fine for me in IE6/FF:

Code: 
<html>
<head>
</head>

<body>
<ul id="top">
	<li><a href="#section1">Section 1</a></li>
	<li><a href="#section2">Section 2</a></li>
	<li><a href="#section3">Section 3</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="section1">Section 1</h3>
<p><a href="#top">Back to top</a></p>
<p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> 
<p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> 
<p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p>

<h3 id="section2">Section 2</h3>
<p><a href="#top">Back to top</a></p>
<p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> 
<p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> 
<p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p>

<h3 id="section3">Section 3</h3>
<p><a href="#top">Back to top</a></p>
<p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> 
<p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> 
<p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p> <p>blah...</p>

</body>
</html>

--James
 
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It could be because I'm on my own pc, so I'll put it on my hosting server and see what happens. Problem is the site is nowhere near finished.
 
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I put it online: I seems to be working. It must be a glitch in how I have my development set up. A lot of the links you will see go to an old site or blank pages, this is a re-development and i've only gotten as far as the first links.
Thanks all
gl
 
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