From 73c3f0d7018041acac259eedf501dc6d9a52e1af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tzafrir Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 14:01:09 -0500 Subject: s/a name/id/ ? --- doc/ikiwiki/wikilink/discussion.mdwn | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/ikiwiki/wikilink/discussion.mdwn b/doc/ikiwiki/wikilink/discussion.mdwn index b146c9447..d6df4cbf6 100644 --- a/doc/ikiwiki/wikilink/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/ikiwiki/wikilink/discussion.mdwn @@ -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]] + --- Considering a hierarchy like `foo/bar/bar`, I had the need to link from the -- cgit v1.2.3