[WEB4LIB] Re: Firefox problem

[Corey Murata]

I discovered recently that Firefox is case sensitive with internal links.
So:
<a href="#link">
and
<a name="Link">
will break.

IE, on the other hand, assumes "link"="Link" and (for good or bad) will take
you to the spot.

Cm
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Corey Murata
Business Computer-based Services Librarian
Foster Business Library
University of Washington
Box 353224
Seattle, WA 98195
(206) 543-4360
murata at u.washington.edu

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Dowling" <tdowling at ohiolink.edu>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 6:56 AM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Firefox problem


> Leo Robert Klein wrote:
> > On Tue, February 22, 2005 7:22 pm, Poulter, Dale said:
> >
> >>We have been using FireFox for a while but have encountered a
> >>problem that I am unable find a solution to.  We have a few pages
> >>with internal links.  These work great with IE but fail with
> >>FireFox 1.0.  Any suggestions?
> >>
> >><a href="#link">
> >>
> >><a name="link">
> >>
> >
> > Probably a stupid question but are you closing your anchor tags?
> > I.E.:
> >        <a href="#link">Click Here!</a>
> >        <a name="link"></a>You have won...
> >
>
> I agree that an unclosed anchor tag is the most likely suspect.  Let me
> recommend id attributes as a syntax that makes more sense structurally
> and is less likely to get mangled:
>
>   <a href="#note3">See note 3</a>...
>
>   <p id="note3">Yadda yadda</p>
>
>
> Thomas Dowling
> tdowling at ohiolink.edu
>
>