Thx for all the comments but the name anchor tags work fine unless and until I have a page extension .shtml for the page on which the anchor exists, I have tried lower case, upper case, full pathnames, names other than "top", even tried playing around with the <base url> tag.
Unfortunately about 70% of visitors are still IE5 so I cannot ignore the problem, I will try the XHTML route but it seems that IE 5.5 is 'choking' on the # symbol when it is parsing an .shtml page. I will talk to my friendly ISP as well, as Apache can be configured to parse .html files as .shtml which may side step the whole issue. Cheers ----- Original Message ----- From: "Abigail Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 7:23 PM Subject: [wdvltalk] Re: Another shtml/SSI question > > 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 > > > > ____ . The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM . ____ > To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: > http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub > > ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ > > You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.422 / Virus Database: 237 - Release Date: 20/11/02 ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
