Going to anchors

[Chris Brisland]

Hi! It's been years since I last came here. Five or so...

But now I am back and starting to build a site again - using good old DW4.

My problem:

I have placed an anchor in a centred layer and I have a linked text outside of
that layer. When I click the link, the whole page resets so that the anchor is
at the top of the explorer window, thus moving the whole page and not just the
layer.

What I want is for the link only to move to the given point in the layer and
to leave the main page as is.

See what I mean about the problem here at:
[url]http://www.eagleskinner.com/linkspage.htm[/url]

[Joe Makowiec]

On 17 Feb 2006 in macromedia.exchange.extensions.dreamweaver, Chris
Brisland wrote:

> I have placed an anchor in a centred layer and I have a linked text
> outside of that layer. When I click the link, the whole page resets
> so that the anchor is at the top of the explorer window, thus moving
> the whole page and not just the layer.
>
> What I want is for the link only to move to the given point in the
> layer and to leave the main page as is.
>
> See what I mean about the problem here at:
> [url]http://www.eagleskinner.com/linkspage.htm[/url]

That's the way these things work.

Why do you want to have a scrolling area inside a page which already
scrolls anyway? By now, people have gotten used to the idea that web
pages scroll vertically. For me, at least, a page which has internal
scrolling areas is a pain.

I suspect that frames or iframes will allow you to do what you want;
but before you embark on that journey, read this:

[url]http://apptools.com/rants/framesevil.php[/url]

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Joe Makowiec
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Email: [url]http://makowiec.net/email.php[/url]