176449 - Cannot link to anchors between TR and TD in table

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect, P3)

Description

[Gary Carnell]

I have a table and on each row I have <a name="uniqueref">. I have a link from
another page like <a href=page.php?var1=val1&var2=val2#uniqueref>. When this is
followed the browser jumps to the top of the table and not the row in the table.
It seems to work in ie and opera and I'd like it to work on all browsers.

Comment 1

[Chris Lyon]

Please include your build id.

Comment 2

[Elmar Ludwig]

... and a testcase if you can.

Comment 3

[Chris Lyon]

In an email from the reporter:
>Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910

Your build is over a month old. Please try with a newer build and attach a 
testcase, otherwise the bug will be resolved as INVALID.

Comment 4

[Gary Carnell]

Attachment: PHP test file contains the back link

Comment 5

[Gary Carnell]

Attachment: PHP test file contains the table and hrefs

Comment 6

[Gary Carnell]

The build is now 2002101612, downloaded Friday 25th Oct. Problem still occurs.
I've attached two files which can be used to demonstrate the problem. One
includes general.php, this just provides the database password and can be done
away with. The example requires a database with an orders table and two fields
reference_no and ex_country.

Comment 7

[Olav Vitters]

Attachment: Testcase, to test: click on the URL above

The problem is that the <a name="blah"></a> is between the <tr> and the <td>.

Move the <a name="blah"></a> to the first <td> and it works ok.

Comment 8

[Olav Vitters]

Cannot find a dupe, so marking new (although probably invalid) + updating summary. 

->Layout??

Comment 9

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

->Parser. DOM Inspector shows that all the anchors wind up at the top of the
document, which is rather bizarre, but it's rather bizarre HTML.

Comment 10

[Terrie Miller]

We're seeing this problem also with pages like this:
http://www.oreilly.com/pub/q/book_syngress_title_asc
The letter links at the top won't jump to the anchors within the table.  (Letters that don't have any 
corresponding book title don't work at all, and we know and expect that.  But the link around the letter 
"P", for example, should jump to the first book title that starts with "P")

Comment 11

[Blake Kaplan (:mrbkap) (inactive)]

DUPEing to a bug with a better testcase.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 265768 ***

Comment 12

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 291961 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***