firefox anchor link works first time, fails second time
My website uses anchor links of the form href=file.htm#1234 to jump to <a name=1234> in file.htm.
It works fine when the website is locally loaded on my home PC. When I upload it to my website platform it works the first time I use it and then fails jumping to the top of file.htm. IE works fine both on the website platform and on my home PC.
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Could you post the url of your site?
Try use id instead name, HTML5 doesnt support the tag name anymore.
The URL is http://www.jbending.org.uk
For example go to Index, A, Ada - for me this goes to a page with Ada at the top
Go back to previous page and repeat "Ada". It goes to head of page.
The web pages are generated by software. I have editted one example to replace name= with id=, it didnt help.
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Works perfectly here, all the times!!
Maybe the problem occurs only with your browser, try restart your Firefox
See more about anchors:
Modified by Diego Victor
I have restarted Firefox. "ada" always fails as do other "A"s I tried, but "M" "Mabel" worked first time and failed second!!
So if it works for you the html cant be wrong. Are you running firefox 27.0.1 on Windows ?
I'm running Firefox 27.0.1 on W8.1, i try the same link that you, Mabel and works everytime too.
Modified by Diego Victor
Do you see the correct URL in the location bar?
Yes, when I hover over the link to Ada I see the correct URL, but clicking on "Ada" just takes me to the top of the page.
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Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).
- Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window.
Fixed it!!!!
Many thanks - it was an addon. Dont know which one - will experiment.
Many thanks.
Found it - Skype Click to Call 7.0.14375.1561. Disable it everything works, Enable it doesnt.
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