html: anchor problem

**mode** · Oct 29th, 2002, 05:24 AM

hello everyone
i have a frameset with 2 frames: links.html and contents.html. there are several anchors in contents.html. so when the user choose some link i want contents.html to start from a spesific anchor according to that pressed link. that means i want contents.html to start further down on the page.

i guess in links.html it should be something like this:

<a href="contents.html#anchor-one" target="right">anchor-one</a>

in contents.html i think it is:

 or
<a href="contents.html#anchor-one"></a> or <a name... etc.

so do you have any idea how to do this and am i in a right direction with this?

thank you in advance

**mendhak** · Oct 29th, 2002, 05:51 AM

<a href="contents.html#anchor-one" target="right">anchor-one</a>

Correct.

in contents.html it should be:

<A name="anchor-one"></a>

**mode** · Oct 29th, 2002, 06:33 AM

yes, thank you very much, now it works. i had tested that already, but i guess the problem was that that a-tag was outside the cell, because i'm using table. but it was much easier to solve this when i knew that the code was right. thanks

**Rick Bull** · Oct 29th, 2002, 11:00 AM

I think the ID thing should have worked also, don't know why it didn't. Maybe it was a browser bug.

**HairyDave** · Oct 29th, 2002, 11:24 AM

Aren't "name" and "id" supposed to be the same thing? I thought XHTML brought in "id", but HTML uses "name" - so at the moment both are 'supposed' to work.

I think this is right - so perhaps the use of "id" wasn't recognised. As Rick said, a browser bug...?

HD

**Rick Bull** · Oct 29th, 2002, 02:12 PM

I think (from memory) ID must always be individual, but name can be the same for things like checkboxes, etc. But yeah ID is the way to go for XHTML.

**mendhak** · Oct 29th, 2002, 02:23 PM

XHTML is one mountain sized pain in the ass.

**CornedBee** · Oct 29th, 2002, 03:26 PM

So if you want compatibility for both HTML 4 and XHTML 1 you'd do
<a name="anchor-one" id="anchor-one"></a>

XHTML is cool, might kick all those IE-only-because-of-poorly-written-code sites in the azz!

**JoshT** · Oct 29th, 2002, 04:56 PM

I'm switching to XHTML Strict for all my personal pages...

**Rick Bull** · Oct 30th, 2002, 06:39 AM

Yeah it's not really that hard. I've been using strict for quite a while now, and I did have my site in XHTML 1.1, but the W3C scrapped the lang attribute in favour of the xml:lang attribute, but most browsers don't seem to suport that so I switched back to XHTML 1.0 strict for now.

**CornedBee** · Oct 30th, 2002, 08:19 AM

What is the exact difference between Transitional and Strict?

**Rick Bull** · Oct 30th, 2002, 09:43 AM

Mainly that transitional contains presentation markup rather than just content. Strict has only that, and relies on CSS to do the presentation. But if you use transitional you are supposed to write your page in strict, then add presentation tags to make your pages compatible with older browsers, if you need it that is

**CornedBee** · Oct 30th, 2002, 10:41 AM

So , , and such are not supported by strict?

**Rick Bull** · Oct 30th, 2002, 12:33 PM

I think think and might be (although you should usually use and as they work better in text-only browsers), but I'm pretty sure font isn't.

**The Hobo** · Oct 30th, 2002, 10:07 PM

I don't know anything about XHTML, but hasn't been deprecated for awhile now?

And where can I read up about XHTML and learn wise things?

**techgnome** · Oct 30th, 2002, 10:26 PM

Originally posted by The Hobo
I don't know anything about XHTML, but hasn't been deprecated for awhile now?

Yes, FONT tags have been depreciated in favor of using styles. Although most browsers will still support it.

Originally posted by The Hobo
And where can I read up about XHTML and learn wise things?

Check out the Web Links at http://devnewt.ionichost.com I know there's one in there to a site about XHTML.

**mendhak** · Oct 30th, 2002, 11:49 PM

Originally posted by The Hobo
I don't know anything about XHTML, but hasn't been deprecated for awhile now?

And where can I read up about XHTML and learn wise things?

The best place for online tutorials:

http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/

**Rick Bull** · Oct 31st, 2002, 06:13 AM

Or http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/ if you don't mind reading some of the technical waffle

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