AW: [opencms-dev] Interesting Behaviour: WYSIWYG editor removes empty anchors

[Mark Miller]

I get round this by using a blank gif ... eg.

<a name='wobble'><img src='images/blanker.gif' width='1px'
height='1px'></a>Text to jump to

and then create my blanker.gif as a 1 x 1 gif with a transparent
background ... keeps all agents happy.



Kind regards,
 
Mark Miller
 
Hema Computersysteme AG
Frauholzstrasse 9a
6422 Steinen
 
Phone: +41 (0) 41 833 88 88
info at hema.ch
www.hema.ch


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Von: opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org
[mailto:opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org] Im Auftrag von Geoff Winkless
Gesendet: 06 April 2004 11:55
An: opencms-dev at opencms.org
Betreff: [opencms-dev] Interesting Behaviour: WYSIWYG editor removes
empty anchors

I've searched for this one (honest!).

Some bizarre behaviour: when using the WYSIWYG editor on OpenCMS 5.0.1
to edit a file which has empty anchors (eg:

<a name="wibble"></a>some text to jump to

the tags are removed.

If you do

<a name="wibble>some text to jump to</a>

the tags remain. Unsure if this is intentional but it's a gotcha to
watch out for, since quite a few HTML designers I know use empty name
anchors.

The w3c is somewhat ambiguous:

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http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/links.html#adef-name-A

Note. User agents should be able to find anchors created by empty A
elements, but some fail to do so. For example, some user agents may not
find the "empty-anchor" in the0following HTML fragment:

<A name="empty-anchor"></A>
<EM>...some HTML...</EM>
<A href="#empty-anchor">Link to empty anchor</A>

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It seems that although not recommended, empty anchors are nonetheless
valid HTML.

Geoff


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