On Friday, November 29, 2002, 8:51:00 PM, K. F. Wu commented:

KFW> I have used the in-page link quite a few times.  It works with IE just as 
KFW> fine as other browsers. Don't know why you encounter the problem. I found 
KFW> you could have put it wrong that there is no need of </a> after <a name="top">

KFW> Try eliminate the </a> and see if it works.  Good luck

If the page is written in XHTML, that won't work - I had a bunch of
layout problems in a page that wouldn't resolve until I realized I had
unclosed anchor tags - basically for a page to validate in XHTML,
every tag must always be paired with a closing tag.

I don't know what will resolve Michael's problem - I'm just pointing
this out because I think it's a bad idea to write bad code in order to
try to resolve a browser glitch on a now-obsolete browser version. (I
mean, you will fix the IE 5.5. problem only to end up with other
problems on standards-compliant browsers).

I would like to point out that XHTML should be coded as <a
 id="anchor"> rather than <a name="anchor"> - since older browsers
won't recognize that, the cross-browser compliant coding
should be <a name="anchor" id="anchor"></a>.

The problem with IE 5.5. could also be with the use of the word "top",
as that may be a reserved word - I have had similar issues with
earlier versions of IE. Basically "_top" is used to specify the
document location property, and it's possible that IE recognizes, and
reserves, "top" as well - I don't know, but if in fact that is the
anchor giving the problem, try naming it "fudge" or something and see
whether it works.


-Abigail



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