[WEB4LIB] Re: DOCTYPE declaration for invalid page

[Eric Hellman]

Interesting. Perhaps the IE5/98 browser is confused by the bad syntax 
and decides to  encode the "#"

Did you try the syntactically correct code:
  <a href="modify.cfm?id1=value1&amp;id2=value2#form">
?

Eric

At 7:48 AM -0800 11/2/00, Kevin Sullivan wrote:
>This brings up another issue. When developing an interface for staff to
>update a database, I was using a construction similar to the following
>to pull up the appropriate record and drop them down to the next input
>form:
>
>   <a href="modify.cfm?id1=value1&id2=value2#form">
>
>My test worked great on NN4 and IE5 on Win2K, but a coworker's IE5 on
>Win98 was passing the value of id2 as value2#form (this was confirmed
>using CF debug). The numeric value of id2 was safe, strangely, and the
>correct record was retrieved; but, the browser would not honor the
>anchor reference. So, I put in another ampersand to separate the anchor
>definition:
>
>   <a href="modify.cfm?id1=value1&id2=value2&#form">
>
>Finally, all 4 browser/platform configurations were appeased. Any
>thoughts?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Kevin Sullivan
>Internet Systems Manager
>Mid-Continent Public Library
>http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us
>mailto:web at mcpl.lib.mo.us

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