ie reading anchors

Internet Explorer is not making the connections between anchors that are below the links on the page. When I set links that are to move to anchors above the links, ie reads the code perfectly. I have tried renaming the anchor names. I have looked at the code to see any difference between those that work and those that don't and can't find any differences.

Ironically, Netscape is reading all of the links to the anchors perfectly. This confuses me even more.

The problem Web page is at http://www.englishjournal.colostate.edu/columnblurbs.htm

please help

woahaw
http://www.englishjournal.colostate.edu/columnblurbs.htm

suggestion to try-
do a find for a name= to step down thru the named anchors in code view.

Insert a non-breaking space in the anchor.

<td><a name="voices" id="voices">&nbsp;</a></td>

that will give both the anchor and the td some contents, so that it will
exist on the page perhaps, and can be linked to.

Internet Explorer is not making the connections between anchors that are below
the links on the page. When I set links that are to move to anchors above the
links, ie reads the code perfectly. I have tried renaming the anchor names.
I have looked at the code to see any difference between those that work and
those that don't and can't find any differences.

Ironically, Netscape is reading all of the links to the anchors perfectly.
This confuses me even more.

The problem Web page is at
http://www.englishjournal.colostate.edu/columnblurbs.htm

please help

woahaw
http://www.englishjournal.colostate.edu/columnblurbs.htm

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"Woahaw" webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com wrote:

Internet Explorer is not making the connections between anchors that are below the links on the page. When I set links that are to move to anchors above the links, ie reads the code perfectly. I have tried renaming the anchor names. I have looked at the code to see any difference between those that work and those that don't and can't find any differences.

Ironically, Netscape is reading all of the links to the anchors perfectly. This confuses me even more.

The problem Web page is at http://www.englishjournal.colostate.edu/columnblurbs.htm

please help

woahaw
http://www.englishjournal.colostate.edu/columnblurbs.htm

They're all working like charm in IE on Mac.
Just an idea: When testing, are you previewing through DW and thereby
actually viewing a TMP file, and not the actual page?
Or are you testing the actual page over and over again?

The reason for asking:

If you're previewing through DW, you'll get a new file to view every
time. If you're not, but looking at the actual page, you *might* have a
cache issue: IE is pulling up an old, cached page which includes the
erroneous anchors.

If the latter is correct: empty browser cache and even reboot browser.

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Woahaw webforumsuser wrote:

Internet Explorer is not making the connections between anchors that
are below the links on the page.

Version? OS?

IE 5 (Win2k) is doing fine.

When I set links that are to move to
anchors above the links, ie reads the code perfectly.

Maybe this is the problem:

"User agents should be able to find anchors created by
empty A elements, but some fail to do so. [...]"

12.2 The A element
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#h-12.2
(the note at the end of the section)

I would also recommend to put the anchors outside of the tables.
Instead of

<table width="750" border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3">
<tr>
<td><a name="innovative" id="innovative"></a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><font ...>Bold Books for Innovative
Teaching</font></td>
</tr>
<!-- content -->


write this (at least it's better markup, a heading should be
marked up as a heading and not only as big fat text):

<h2><a name="innovative" id="innovative">Bold Books for Innovative</a></h2>
<!-- content -->

Then style the headings with CSS:
h2 {
color: #306;
font-size: ...;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

Finally there are two validation errors left:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.englishjournal.colostat e.edu%2Fcolumnblurbs.htm

HTH
Micha