- From: Andy Williams <andrew23@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 21:54:27 -0600
- To: site-comments@w3.org
- Message-ID: <23d536df0601130002k16ae4c68y2d013073af9aba69@mail.gmail.com>
Hi there, First of all, thanks to your superb site, I am slowly getting to grips with creating my first website I was having a problem with getting anchors to work having inserted a number of <a name="myUniqueName"></a> thingies (where 'myUniqueName' really was unique) inbetween (opening) <tr> and <td> tags - and clicking the appropriate link in Firefox/Netscape simply moved the cusor to the 'first' location (curiously, it worked as I intended in both Opera or IE) I went a-Googling and entered your superb site via http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/links.html and, slowly, the pennies began to drop - so thanks... After reading section 12.2.2 (Nested links are illegal), I had a hunch that I should move the <a name="myUniqueName"></a> thingies (so that they came inside <td> ... </td> tags), and it works! :) However, I am still a bit confused (nothing new there)... http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_15161 seems to endorse the way I was using those anchors (see their subheader <<*To make the anchors work in Netscape:>>* ) so maybe my 'fix' means my HTML is still a long way from being anything like 'approved style' ... Whatever, this 'trap-for-beginners' doesn't seem to be documented anywhere that Google knows about, so, realising you're the bods with the most influence, I thought I'd drop you a line Maybe you have a better understanding than I do with regard to my waffling - and maybe you can turn that into some coherent info for beginners, like me, who appreciate your site so much Cheers Andy Williams NZ -- GP: Maybe you are just crazy. M2: Indeed! But do not reject these teaching as false because I am crazy. The reason that I am crazy is because they are true. http://www.ology.org/principia/body.html
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