528030 - link to location on same page

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 506389

(Firefox :: Disability Access, defect)

Description

[Ricardo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

using standard html to link to location on same page; used extensively for Section 508 compliance (visual impaired). again simple code does not work in firefox. i have tried on other browser, no issue;

anchor:
<a href="#skipnav">Skip Navigation Menus</a>  

target: XHTML compliant (somewhere down on same page)
<td id="skipnav" colspan="2"> 

or non compliant: (old way)
<a id="skipnav" name="skipnav" />

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.yes, everytime
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Actual Results:  
does not navigate to target, remains at top of window

Expected Results:  
should auto navigate to target area

same as above