780595 - If a page has two or more sections with the same name, only the first section works in the table of contents and #id URLs

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 819912

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Editing, defect, P1)

Description

[pjk007]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/537.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/21.0.1180.60 Safari/537.1

Steps to reproduce:

String Methods Documentation Not Found
Link Broken: 
"For methods available on String instances, see Methods of String instances."

Location:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String#Methods_2

Comment 1

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Confirmed. Thanks for reporting this, pjk007.

This looks like a symptom of a larger problem: If a page has two or more sections with the same name (in this case "Methods"), only the first section works in the table of contents and only the first section can be linked to directly.

We will be sure to look into it.

Comment 2

[Les Orchard [:lorchard]]

Off the top of my head:

1) Seems like MindTouch might have done this: Try to detect already-used IDs and add a unique number on repeats. (eg. Examples, Examples_2, Examples_3, etc)

2) Try not to use the same name for sections in future documents. But, when the need arises, go into source mode and add a name="..." attribute to the header with a page-unique value.