909070 - Internal Page linking (Anchor Tags) not working for me.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Webmaker Graveyard :: Thimble, defect)

Description

[Replica @ModReplica]

Not sure if it's a bug or if my code skills are ancient. 

Example:

<a name="Growth">Growth Section</a>
and
<a href="#Growth">Growth Section</a>

and a link like:

<a href="https://replica.makes.org/thimble/My_Charts#Growth">Chart of Growth</a>

None of that, nor multiple other experiments, worked.

I may be a terrible coder, but every link trying to refer to an internal page element just reopened the page in a new window. 

Which was upsetting as I was trying to do a 'back to top of page' thing, as well as a 'go to this section' thing.

I wasn't using target="_blank" either.

Comment 1

[Pomax]

unfortunately, this is a consequence of us using the <base target="_blank"> tag to make sure regular links open in a new window/tab, rather than inside the make's iframe. You can get around this by using <a href=".." target="_self"> for any page navigation links.

(The reason it takes you off-page is that the base tag unfortunately has no attribute for indicating that it should only apply to absolute links)