A name tag and MSIE ?

[Benj]

Hi,
I have on my site some links which send to another page with to an <a name> tag, like http://mysite.com/page2.htm#here

I have several <a name> tags on this page, but msie 5.01 doesn't seems to send me exactly where the corresponding <a name> is. It seems to drop me above.

Netscape doesn't do this, it sends me correctly exactly where the <a name> is.

Is there a known issue with MSIE and the <a name> ?

Thanks,
Benj

[Justin]

Sometimes if you are on a slower connection, a few things can happen to cause this. The main problem is if you have images and did not specify the height and width of them. If there are such images above the text, once they have started to download and they resize, the page shifts around (Netscape will just not show the page until the images are done if in a table - IE will shift the page around dynamically).

And sometimes, if you are not in a table (just lots of text), and on a slower connection, it will scroll down as soon as the <A> tag is found. If less than a full screen's worth of text is loaded by that point, it can only scroll down so far...

It's just a matter of timing. As long as you are within a table and have properly specified your image attributes, you shoulnd't see this problem.

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Justin Nelson
FutureQuest (http://www.FutureQuest.net/index.php) Support