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Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 05/18/06 21:06
Michael Laplante <nowhereman@twilightzone.net> scripsit:
> I've solved my previous hyperlink issue in IE with the following:
>
> <body>
> <a name="top" id="top"> </a>
Which issue? There is no problem here before you decide to create one.
First, "Back to top" links are not needed - they are in fact harmful, see
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www/totop.html
Besides, even if users needed such links, you could set them up using just
href="#", without artificial constructs.
> I've set the doc type to HTML4.01 strict.
Do you know what that means?
> <a name="top" id="top"> </a>The mentioned element is not
> allowed to appear in the context in which you've placed it;
Isn't this rather obvious? The <a> element is allowed where it is. Now just
check the HTML 4.01 Strict syntax. It does not allow <a> elements directly
insider <body>.
> Why is <a> not allowed here? It's the first bit of code after <body> and
> there is no block-level element contained within it, so what's
> the issue here?
It's not _contained in_ a block-level element?
> Must it be enclosed in a <P> or other block level
> element to validate?
Bingo. But it's not a paragraph, so <p> would be semantically wrong. So
<div> would fix the syntactic issue. So would removing the useless <a>
element.
> (I'm about to go off and do this but nothing on
> the w3 reference suggests this is a necessity.)
Really? Not even the HTML 4.01 specification?
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