[Gllug] OT: specifying anchors and cgi parameters in a single URI

Ryan Cartwright ryan at crimperman.org
Fri Feb 24 17:06:35 UTC 2006


Sean Burlington wrote:
> Ryan Cartwright wrote:
> 
> 
>>The problem is that the URI of the page itself contains CGI parameters (
>>e.g. http://www.foo.com/script.cgi?p=1&r=2 ) and these are carried over
>>to the URIs containing the anchors ( e.g.
>>http://www.foo.com/script.cgi?p=1&r=2#foo ).
>>
>>These URIs containing parameters and anchors work in IE (6 and below)
>>but not in Moziall,Firefox, Konqueror or Opera. Any ideas on what I can
>>do to enable the same functionality cross-browser?
>>
>
> This works fine for me in firefox
> 
> It seems more likely to be a problem with the way the targets are
> embedded in the html

Doh - that was it the targets were all of the form <a name="#foo"></a> 
etc. That is they included the hash mark in the name.

Once again proving that IE allows broken HTML and the other browsers not 
allowing it highlighted that it was broken.

Many thanks for your help.

Ryan
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