Re: Anchor tags: what is the standard?

I think we can safely say by definition the below named *container* should
indeed have something in it.

Consider if you will for just a minute . . . 

A dot (.) colored as close as humanly possible (using Hex) so as to match
the background of the page and sized using the font attribute to something
like . . .  "-890,000". Now, using your very best WYSIWYG buttons, plaster
that sucker up in the very corner of the page (if you want the anchor to be
"top"), or where ever you want it.

Stick it inside that anchor tag!

Creative coding the old fashioned way !
HTH,
Fuzzy.





At 10:56 AM 2/14/01 -0800, Complex wrote:
>GoLive 4 and Dreamweaver 3 (both for Mac) place my anchor tags before
>text, without any text inside: (<.a name="blah"></a>Chapter 1: A New
>Blah)
>
>That works fine in everything except Netscape 6. Jumping to those
>anchor tags in N6 results in the anchored line being off the top of the
>screen. In the above example, you'd have jumped to Chapter 1, but the
>Chapter 1 heading would not be visible, being off the top of the
>screen. 
>
>However, if you place text inside the anchor tag (<.a
>name="blah">Chapter 1</a>), then the anchor works everywhere.
>
>Fine, but GoLive (which I use at work) makes this VERY difficult. I can
>edit the tags by hand or Find/Replace command, but the moment I touch
>the tags (or modify them slightly?) in the Layout mode, then GoLive
>edits *all* of the anchors so no text falls between the open and close
>tags. I don't mean to bash GoLive, but this is annoying. I haven't
>played with DW enough to see if I can change this behavior, or what...
>
>That said, my question (finally) is: Is there a W3C-stated standard for
>how anchor tags should be set up? Are the tags *supposed* to contain
>text, or is it purely optional? Is Netscape 6 just quirky in this
>instance, or is it rigidly sticking to a standard? (Please, back up any
>assertions with references.*) Regardless, I would like to find a way to
>put text into those anchor tags.
>
>Thanks,
>Michael
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