Tudorplace.com.ar, an HTML question

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Tudorplace.com.ar, an HTML question

Legg inn av Gjest » 22 okt 2006 23:55:02

This is something that's been bugging me for a while but I don't have enough
HTML knowledge to be able to understand it.

First Step
If you go here
http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/CROMWELL.htm
and do a "Find (on this page)" for "Oliver Cromwell"
you get a first hit on him, as a child to Henry Cromwell (d 6 Jan 1603/4)

and of course at this point, the URL shown hasn't changed.

Second Step
Click on the link for Oliver Cromwell (Sir Knight) that you just found
and you go to his entry, on this *same* page, but now the URL has changed to
http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/CROMWELL.h ... r%20Knight)1

this is some sort of bookmark or something, I'm not sure if that's the
correct technical term, but it's a way to set-off parts of a page as a seperate URL
so you can jump directly to a section of the page

Third Step
If you cut and paste this new URL back into the browser, you'd *think* it
would go right back to this same sub-section, but it actually just goes to the
top of the main page as if it didn't have the #Oliver...blah blah extension at
all tacked on it.

If also exhibits this unfriendly behaviour if you paste the link on some
other page, and try to jump back to the Oliver Cromwell sub-section from that
other page.

Question
What's wrong with the form of the URL that it can't go directly to the
sub-section again once you've navigated away? Even if you're already *on* the
Cromwell page, it won't go to the sub-section.

Anyone know?
Thanks
Will Johnson

Ian Cairns

Re: Tudorplace.com.ar, an HTML question

Legg inn av Ian Cairns » 22 okt 2006 23:55:03

<WJhonson@aol.com> wrote in message news:413.17b039f8.326d4256@aol.com...
This is something that's been bugging me for a while but I don't have
enough
HTML knowledge to be able to understand it.

First Step
If you go here
http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/CROMWELL.htm
and do a "Find (on this page)" for "Oliver Cromwell"
you get a first hit on him, as a child to Henry Cromwell (d 6 Jan 1603/4)

and of course at this point, the URL shown hasn't changed.

Second Step
Click on the link for Oliver Cromwell (Sir Knight) that you just found
and you go to his entry, on this *same* page, but now the URL has changed
to
http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/CROMWELL.h ... r%20Knight)1

this is some sort of bookmark or something, I'm not sure if that's the
correct technical term, but it's a way to set-off parts of a page as a
seperate URL
so you can jump directly to a section of the page

Yes it's a local bookmark. The first reference is
<a href="#Oliver CROMWELL (Sir Knight)1">Oliver CROMWELL (Sir Knight)</a>
to provide the initial link

and later on
<a href="#Oliver CROMWELL (Lord Protector)1">Oliver CROMWELL (Lord
Protector)</a>
to provide the definition / place to jump to.

Third Step
If you cut and paste this new URL back into the browser, you'd *think* it
would go right back to this same sub-section, but it actually just goes to
the
top of the main page as if it didn't have the #Oliver...blah blah
extension at
all tacked on it.

If also exhibits this unfriendly behaviour if you paste the link on some
other page, and try to jump back to the Oliver Cromwell sub-section from
that
other page.

Question
What's wrong with the form of the URL that it can't go directly to the
sub-section again once you've navigated away? Even if you're already *on*
the
Cromwell page, it won't go to the sub-section.

This doesn't happen here. I'm using Firefox to cut and paste the links as
you describe and I get back to the later bookmarked section. Is it possible
that you have not copied _all_ of the link, in particular the bit after the
#? If so, then you may be referencing an undefined bookmark and so get the
top of the page? On the other hand, you may be using another browser, e.g.
AOL?

Rgrds
Ian

Tim Powys-Lybbe

Re: Tudorplace.com.ar, an HTML question

Legg inn av Tim Powys-Lybbe » 23 okt 2006 00:35:47

In message of 22 Oct, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:

This is something that's been bugging me for a while but I don't have enough
HTML knowledge to be able to understand it.

First Step
If you go here
http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/CROMWELL.htm
and do a "Find (on this page)" for "Oliver Cromwell"
you get a first hit on him, as a child to Henry Cromwell (d 6 Jan 1603/4)

and of course at this point, the URL shown hasn't changed.

Second Step
Click on the link for Oliver Cromwell (Sir Knight) that you just found
and you go to his entry, on this *same* page, but now the URL has changed to
http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/CROMWELL.h ... r%20Knight)1

this is some sort of bookmark or something, I'm not sure if that's the
correct technical term, but it's a way to set-off parts of a page as a seperate URL
so you can jump directly to a section of the page

Third Step
If you cut and paste this new URL back into the browser, you'd *think* it
would go right back to this same sub-section, but it actually just goes to the
top of the main page as if it didn't have the #Oliver...blah blah extension at
all tacked on it.

If also exhibits this unfriendly behaviour if you paste the link on some
other page, and try to jump back to the Oliver Cromwell sub-section from that
other page.

Question
What's wrong with the form of the URL that it can't go directly to the
sub-section again once you've navigated away? Even if you're already *on* the
Cromwell page, it won't go to the sub-section.

Anyone know?

Yes. Your browser is duff. It works fine on Safari on a Mac. Though I
will agree that it did not work on another browser on another machine.

--
Tim Powys-Lybbe                                          tim@powys.org
             For a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/

Ian Cairns

Re: Tudorplace.com.ar, an HTML question

Legg inn av Ian Cairns » 23 okt 2006 13:03:15

"Ian Cairns" <news@cairnsfamily.org> wrote in message
news:ehgr2m$o42$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk...
Yes it's a local bookmark. The first reference is
a href="#Oliver CROMWELL (Sir Knight)1">Oliver CROMWELL (Sir Knight)</a
to provide the initial link

and later on
a href="#Oliver CROMWELL (Lord Protector)1">Oliver CROMWELL (Lord
Protector)</a
to provide the definition / place to jump to.


Of course, the above is rubbish, since the link is different - I've clearly
pasted the wrong bits - but the point remains.
Ian

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