Fragment Identifiers and Tables

[Thomas Dowling]

Rob--

This is a known problem with earlier versions of many browsers.  They
simply don't recognize  name anchors within tables; I don't believe this
was required in earlier drafts of the table spec.  One workaround might
be:

<h2><a name="a">A</a></h2>
<table>
<tr><td>Aardvark, Aaron <td>555-1111
</table>

<h2><a name="b">B</a></h2>
<table>
<tr><td>Badger, Bernard <td>555-2222
</table>
..
..
..

With some careful use of "width=" attributes, you could still make table
columns line up neatly.


> 
> <tr><td colspan=4 align=center><h2><a name=l11>L</a></h2>
> 
> Does anyone know why this would be the case, and is there a way to write
> the links so they work in both the current and older versions?
> 
> 

BTW, this is one of the tests included in BrowserCaps, so if you need to
know whether a specific browser handles this as you expect, you can check
<URL: http://www.objarts.com/bc/> or more specifically <URL:
http://www.objarts.com/bc/Generated/test-Anchors-In-Tables.html>


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