232895 - named anchor containing (hash | pound | # | score) not linking properly

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

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

Description

[ebnf]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040115 Firebird/0.8.0+

The example page is very poorly formatted HTML, but it shows a strange linking
behavior.

<a href="foo.html# #123">foo</a>
to
<a name=" #123">

is what I expect to work, but Internet Explorer 6 SP1 works from <a
href="foo.html#123"> also, so pages get coded up this way.  Maybe in quirks mode
allow this type of linking to work as well?


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Visit page, click anchor link.



Actual Results:  
Watch Moz/Firebird not follow the link.

Expected Results:  
In strict mode, this is okay, but quirks I'd think this would work.

Comment 1

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

If someone could attach a simplified testcase here that could help in resolving
this, depending on what we want to do with this bug.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I believe the issue if that <a href="#foo" /> will link to <a name="#foo" /> in
IE... we've had bugs on this before and wontfixed them, iirc....

Comment 3

[ebnf]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I believe the issue if that <a href="#foo" /> will link to <a name="#foo" /> in
> IE... we've had bugs on this before and wontfixed them, iirc....

This "feature" is the only thing keeping a coworker of mine using IE.  Should I
tell him to stick with it?  Other than that, you can close this out if it's wontfix.

Comment 4

[Graham]

Attachment: testcase

Works in IE6.0.28 but not in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US;
rv:1.8a1) Gecko/20040520 or in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US;
rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8 or in Opera 7.23

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

That's because what IE does is just WRONG.

Comment 6

[Ashley Bischoff (blog at handcoding.com)]

-> INVALID

Comment 7

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

*** Bug 280948 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***