96218 - problems with %20 in the <a href=""> or <a name="">

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 87996

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Jörg Heinicke]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801

I don't know exactly if this bug was already reported, but I didn't found a
similar one.
My problem: Mozilla interprets the %20 in the href-attribute and in the
name-attribute differently. Isn't it so, that %20 is "more correct" than a space
in a URI? But if I have my <a href="bla%20bla">, it doesn't find the according
<a name="bla%20bla">. Only if I change the second example to <a name="bla bla">,
it will be found.

What do you think of it? Is it a bug to W3C's HTML-standard? Or anything else?

Regards,

Joerg

Comment 1

[Sebastian Biallas]

Dup of bug 87996

Comment 2

[Jörg Heinicke]

It's duplicate - I didn't found the other one, because I searched for "<a href %
20" and 'Only Look in Summary Fields' - the search 'Look in both Summary and 
Description Fields' takes much too long!!

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 87996 ***

Comment 3

[Alex Stewart]

It's really easy to agree with the reporter. ;-)
Verified dup of bug 87996 - Anchors with special characters do not work properly.

Comment 4

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

SPAM. HTML Element component deprecated, changing component to Layout. See bug
88132 for details.