132455 - links to anchors jump back to top of page

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 130447

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Zac Jacobson]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.9+)
Gecko/20020320
BuildID:    2002032003

When using the mouse to follow a link to an anchor (href="[page]#[anchorname]"),
after very briefly displaying the page at that anchor, the pages display then
jumps back to the top.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the supplied URL http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/lang/Class.html
2. Scroll down a bit to the "Method Summary" section. Click on a method name,
such as "forName".


Actual Results:  The page flicks down to the appropriate anchor on the page, but
then returns to the top. The URL bar now includes the anchor at the end.

Expected Results:  I would expect that the page would go to the appropriate
anchor and stay there.

This behavior is *not* exibited with the back/forward history buttons. If, after
following the steps above, we continue:
3. Hit the back button. Notice the URL bar does now *not* include the anchor
name. This is as expected.
4. Hit the forward button. Now Mozilla displays the page how I would have
expected originally, with the specified anchor as close to the top of the
display as possible. Then anchor name is displayed in the URL.

Comment 1

[mental]

Hmmm...  the #method_summary link seems to work as expected, but the actual
anchors with specific methods seem to do what the reporter says.  Maybe it's
something about the perenthesis?

Confirming and knocking severity down a notch.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

duplicate of "Clicking on anchor goes to top of page, entering the URL directly
doesn't" (just got fixed a few hours ago).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 130447 ***

Comment 3

[Claudius Gayle]

VERIFIED Dupe