On 11-07-06 08:27 PM, Alexander wrote:
On Jul 6, 2011, at 19:55, Jay Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
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From: "Chad" innocentkiller@gmail.com On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 10:29 PM, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
While I would not list the Mediawiki language as a 'crap' language, I still think it is regretful that one cannot achieve the precision of an HTML <a name="bla"> anchor, to say, make a link to a spot anywhere within a page, whereas with the Mediawiki language, the best one can do is link to the top of a table for example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Chinese_phonology#Initials instead of also to a random point within say, giant tables.
And <span id="bla"> doesn't work why?
You can #-link to a *span name*? Really?
I didn't know that.
Cheers, -- jra
IIRC, all modern browsers support hash linking to any element with an id attribute. --Alexander
Yes, in fact that's the standard. The standard has been id="" since XHTML. HTML5 continues it, name="" is gone. Only ancient HTML4 used <a name=""> and it's only used in obsolete browsers now.
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]