HTML Anchor problem

[island1 +]

I'm trying to link within my FAQ page (anchor) and it wont work. It just links me to my home page. The code is:

<h2><strong>Frequently Asked Questions</strong></h2>
<ol>
<li><a href="#faq1"><strong>How much does it cost?</strong></a></li>
<li><strong>What if I don't want my email address published?</strong></li>
</ol>
<p><strong></strong></p>
<ol>
<li><a name="faq1">Nothing!  We offer our site to you for free.</a></li>
<p> </p>
<li><strong>Unless you put your email eddress in your own listing, no one will ever see it.

The thing is, when I paste this code into the TryIt editor @w3schools, it works. So I'm at a loss.

Thanks in advance

[Mango +]

Try this:

<li><a href="pages.php?page=7/#faq1"><strong>How much does it cost?</strong></a></li>

Change page=7 to whatever page number your FAQ is.

[Mike-N-Tosh +]

Since you didn't give any additional information as to what it actually does do, I'm just poking at straws here.

Try adding a target. like this <a href="#faq1" target="_self">

or try using a full url like this <a href="{$smarty.const.URL}/pages.php?page=X#faq1"> (where X=the page ID you are creating in the admin)

Hope that helps,
-Mike

[island1 +]

Originally Posted by Mike-N-Tosh

Since you didn't give any additional information as to what it actually does do, I'm just poking at straws here.

By "anchor" I mean a link to within the same page. So when you click on the link at the top, it scrolls down the same page to the anchor link location.

[Mango +]

My posted advice does just that.

[Lhotch +]

Originally Posted by island1

By "anchor" I mean a link to within the same page. So when you click on the link at the top, it scrolls down the same page to the anchor link location.

As Mangi said, for smarty you will need to change the actual link to include your full path and then append the #labelname to the end of the url.......


so instead of ...

<a href="#faq1">

you will need....

<a href="http://mydomain.com/pages.php?page=6#faq1">

[JP2 Designs +]

Hi
I have a similar problem with the anchor links...

I want the anchor link to be on the viewlisting.tpl page, so when a guest clicks on my "Contact Seller" link, it anchors/ goes to the form below...

I am thinking that the <a href="#guest">Contact Seller</a> link would need more than just {$smarty.const.URL}, maybe {$smarty.const.URL}/{$entry.link}....

Any ideas??

[JP2 Designs +]

Has anyone got an answer for this?
Or should I just send the guest user to a contact form??

[bowers01 +]

Originally Posted by JP2 Designs

Hi
I have a similar problem with the anchor links...

I want the anchor link to be on the viewlisting.tpl page, so when a guest clicks on my "Contact Seller" link, it anchors/ goes to the form below...

I am thinking that the <a href="#guest">Contact Seller</a> link would need more than just {$smarty.const.URL}, maybe {$smarty.const.URL}/{$entry.link}....

Any ideas??

Do you mean {$smarty.const.URL}/viewlisting.php?view={$view}#guest

[JP2 Designs +]

Hey thanks a lot bowers01

That works great!
Thanks again