On 11-07-06 08:27 PM, Alexander wrote: > On Jul 6, 2011, at 19:55, Jay Ashworth <[email protected]> wrote: > >> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Chad" <[email protected]> >>> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 10:29 PM, <[email protected]> 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.
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