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authortzafrir <tzafrir@web>2009-11-07 14:01:09 -0500
committerJoey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2009-11-07 14:01:09 -0500
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s/a name/id/ ?
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@@ -43,6 +43,11 @@ BTW, ikiwiki doesn't displays the #foo anchor in the example
>> Fixed that --[[Joey]]
+The 'name' attribute of the 'a' element is a depracated way to create a named anchor. The right way to do that is using the 'id' attribute of any element. This is because an anchor may refer to a complete element rather than some point in the page.
+
+Standard purity aside, if you define an anchor (using either 'a name' or 'id') to a single point in the document but refer to a complete section, the browser may just show that specific point at the bottom of the page rather than trying to show all the section.
+--[[tzafrir]]
+
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Considering a hierarchy like `foo/bar/bar`, I had the need to link from the