anchor names syntax

[Jeff Thies]

I have a series of links that reference anchors in the same page. Is it
legal to have spaces in the names? Such things would never work in the
url, but work here.

ex:

<a href="#section 1">jump to section 1</a>

....

<a name="section 1"></a>

Jeff

 

[Eric Biller]

I have a series of links that reference anchors in the same page. Is it
legal to have spaces in the names?

Bad Style!
Imagine someone who wants to bookmark this reference. Propably he won't
experience problems with it (depends on the browser) but all spaces will be
converted to %20. Never use spaces in identifier, names or references. Try
to convert them to underscores if you need it.

Such things would never work in the url, but work here.

You cannot say this in general. Sometimes spaces will be converted to %20
sometimes not. I am not sure if it depends on the browser or server, but it
depends.

greetz
Eric Biller

 

[Jeff Thies]

Jeff Thies wrote:




Bad Style!

Illegal syntax or just bad style?

Imagine someone who wants to bookmark this reference. Propably he won't
experience problems with it (depends on the browser) but all spaces will be
converted to %20.

It's a site map. Nobody is going to bookmark an anchor in a sitemap!

Jeff


Never use spaces in identifier, names or references. Try

 

[Greg Schmidt]

It's a site map. Nobody is going to bookmark an anchor in a sitemap!

If it's a big site, and someone is interested in a certain subset of it,
they might well bookmark the anchor to get them back to that area very
quickly. I've never done it myself, but "never say nobody".

 

[Michael Winter]

Illegal syntax or just bad style?

Illegal. A fragment identifier is still part of a URI, so it must conform
to URI syntax. See
<URL:http://www.zvon.org/tmRFC/RFC2396/Output/chapter4.html#sub1>.

[snip]

Mike


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