Taco,
Your initial post stated the issue was:
<quote>to overcome the issue where I have a global style for the a element which is also applied to the a name element.</quote>
At this stage, you're trying fix your fix:
HTML 4.01: "User agents should be able to find anchors created by empty A elements, but some fail to do so."
Some fail to do so, hhmmm, so a would do the trick? Maybe with display: none so it doesn't take up any space??
Take a step back. Two suggestions:
i. Can you apply your styles to "a:link" instead? Thus keeping "a" unstyled.
ii. Are you wrapping your named anchors around headings? You might style the "a", and override with "h2" styles.
hth,
Ben http://www.daemon.com.au/
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