what am I missing??

I have been using MX for a while and the simplicity of anchors has got me stumped.

On the page that lists presenters names I am trying to hyperlink to anoter page within the root directory that has their biographies. (Listed A-Z)

Next to each name are the "named anchors" for each presenter.

At the page that shows each name I hyperlinked to the page containg the named anchor
http://www.kidsandfire.com/presentermasterpage.htm


When it links to the page http://www.kidsandfire.com/biographies3bc.htm#parkhurst
it does not go to parkhurst. It just goes to the top of the page containing the info.

Any thoughts?






Referring URLs
http://www.kidsandfire.com/presentermasterpage.htm
http://www.kidsandfire.com/biographies3bc.htm#parkhurst

For some reason it doesn't work if you have the name links inside of an
emptly HTML row/column. If you move the name links to the column with other
text in it, it works:

<tr class="BodyCopy">
<td class="BodyHeading2"><a name="parkhurst" id="parkhurst"></a>Officer
Martha Parkhurst</td>
</tr>


"bcmax3" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

I have been using MX for a while and the simplicity of anchors has got me
stumped.

On the page that lists presenters names I am trying to hyperlink to anoter
page within the root directory that has their biographies. (Listed A-Z)

Next to each name are the "named anchors" for each presenter.

At the page that shows each name I hyperlinked to the page containg the
named anchor
http://www.kidsandfire.com/presentermasterpage.htm


When it links to the page
http://www.kidsandfire.com/biographies3bc.htm#parkhurst
it does not go to parkhurst. It just goes to the top of the page
containing the info.

Any thoughts?





Referring URLs
http://www.kidsandfire.com/presentermasterpage.htm
http://www.kidsandfire.com/biographies3bc.htm#parkhurst

"robot88888888" <t@t.com> wrote

For some reason it doesn't work if you have the name links inside of an
emptly HTML row/column. If you move the name links to the column with
other
text in it, it works:

tr class="BodyCopy"
td class="BodyHeading2"><a name="parkhurst" id="parkhurst"></a>Officer
Martha Parkhurst</td
/tr

And sometimes it doesn't work if the anchor is empty. This should fix that:

<td class="BodyHeading2"><a name="parkhurst" id="parkhurst">Officer
Martha Parkhurst</a></td>

Gary

In article <bfbnmt$l$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com>,
"bcmax3" webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com wrote:

When it links to the page
http://www.kidsandfire.com/biographies3bc.htm#parkhurst
it does not go to parkhurst. It just goes to the top of the page containing
the info.

You must have fixed it because it works fine for me



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Harvey Waxman
Harvey Products makers of Dinghy Dogs�
The Boater's Best Friend
http://www.dinghydogs.com

Thanks, I thought named anchors turned the text into a link, but I guess
not. Do you know when empty anchors don't work? (I haven't had a problem
with them)


"Gary White" <reply (AT) newsgroup (DOT) please> wrote

"robot88888888" <t@t.com> wrote in message
news:bfboug$1en$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com...
For some reason it doesn't work if you have the name links inside of an
emptly HTML row/column. If you move the name links to the column with
other
text in it, it works:

tr class="BodyCopy"
td class="BodyHeading2"><a name="parkhurst" id="parkhurst"></a>Officer
Martha Parkhurst</td
/tr

And sometimes it doesn't work if the anchor is empty. This should fix
that:

td class="BodyHeading2"><a name="parkhurst" id="parkhurst">Officer
Martha Parkhurst</a></td

Gary

On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 21:13:39 -0500, "robot88888888" <t@t.com> wrote:

Thanks, I thought named anchors turned the text into a link, but I guess
not. Do you know when empty anchors don't work? (I haven't had a problem
with them)

I don't remember for certain what browser it was, perhaps NN4 since it
gets blamed for everything else <g>. The other thing you can do is
just put a non-breaking space in the tag: <a name="x">&nbsp;</a>


Gary