Closed Bug 293989 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Cannot link via <href> within page. Works OK with IE 6.

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows 98
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 241063

People

(Reporter: ff, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

When clicking a # link to go elsewhere within the page, nothing happens. The
same action works with Internet Explorer 6.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on, say, "B" in the list "|A |B |C |D ...|Z |" in the centre if the screen
2. 
3.

Actual Results:  
Nothing

Expected Results:  
Link to http://www.brookmans.com/business/#b, as IE 6 does.
In your example, the fragmant identifier #b would link to an <anchor> 
looking like <a name="b">, given that your page does not have an anchor
with that name, I suggest that Firefox (and any other correct browser)
should not change the view. 

This report is probably INVALID - BY DESIGN.
Summary: Cannot link via <href> within page. Works OK with IE 6. → Cannot link via <href> within page. Works OK with IE 6.
The HTML 4.01 spec says that name attribute is case-sensitive.  The page in
question gets that wrong.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 241063 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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