On Jul 6, 2011, at 19:55, Jay Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Chad" <innocentkil...@gmail.com> > >> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 10:29 PM, <jida...@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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
