116680 - link to an anchor in document.written document doesn't work

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Martin Honnen]

Mozilla (as NN4) has trouble to correctly link to an anchor in a
document.written document. If I have in frame/window with name windowName some
anchor
  <a name="anchorName">anchor</a>
in a completely document.written document and then a link elsewhere
  <a href="#anchorName" target="windowName">
then Mozilla interprets the link as relative to the url of the document which
created the other one. IE6 is smart enough to figure out that it is a
document.written document and it simply needs to scroll to the anchor in the
document.
I will attach a test case with a frameset which document.writes the content of
two frames, the upper one with anchors, the lower one with links to those anchors.
While in IE6 clicking a link nicely scrolls the upper frame to the anchor linked
to Mozilla on clicking a link loads the frameset into the upper frame. After
that links stop working (probably because there are now two frames with the same
name).

Comment 1

[Martin Honnen]

Attachment: test case (click one of the links in bottom frame)

Comment 2

[Martin Honnen]

Attachment: JavaScript workaround for the bug

I attach a workaround which allows working around the bug with some JavaScript
that scrolls the frame window instead of letting the browser execute the link.

Comment 3

[Henrik Gemal]

please check with newest build, since it's working for me...