Comments on: Internet Explorer 6 and redirected anchor links

By: Ian Hoar

Ian Hoar — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:20:07 +0000

Good idea, code will not validate without using & either.

By: EM

EM — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:29:20 +0000

Sorry – My previous comment has been automatically altered by this website’s comment system.

In relation to the issue being discussed; I solved the problem by using the html entity & amp; instead of just & before the hash.

By: EM

EM — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:27:21 +0000

I sorted this for redirects in ASP.NET. The problem was still occuring if you put the & before the hash #. To beat this I changed the amerpersand to & so the url went from:

http://www.whatever.com?id=23&#Anchor

Worked for me, after hours of pain. Hope it can help someone else.

By: Nadir Shah

Nadir Shah — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:19:16 +0000

REDIRECT PAGE

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By: Nadir Shah

Nadir Shah — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:14:26 +0000

REDIRECT PAGE

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redirecting

for IE

for other browsers

By: Nadir Shah

Nadir Shah — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:07:22 +0000

SOLUTION

Hello everyone

You can use anchors successfully on ie6 or 7 without any problem on coldfusion.cfm pages as well or any page just remember that you need to add a “?” before the “&” and “#” characters.

example…

dot.com/index.cfm?&#anchorname

Also the good news is that you can call any element by ID on that page to do that you need to add a id=”name” to the placeholder element that you wish to point to.

If you are facing problems for example calling the url from coldfusion variables there are numerous exception errors encountered due to the reason the Coldfusion uses #hash sign internally for language commands therefore it sometimes erros out the missing ending #hash#.

There is another simple way to resolve this issue by creating a redirect page.

example…

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redirecting

the page above will automatically instantly redirect you to the specified anchorname in “0″ seconds.

also i assume you are using this function for jumping to specific areas of a webpage it would be wise to aslo disable the scroll bars for IE6+ and other browsers the way it is done.

for “Internet Explorer 6″
!!!add this to the body tag of the page!!!

for “Other Browsers” !!!use css style tag!!!

!!!remember this code goes before the tag on the page.

hope this helps… HAVE FUN

By: Ian Hoar

Ian Hoar — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:12:59 +0000

Hi ravil, thanks, sorry it didn’t work for you. It seems to be kind of random. Maybe it depends on the redirect, it seems to work for some and not others.

By: ravil

ravil — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:55:30 +0000

I also loved your sarcasm in the article. (Damn IE6 and 7… Opera forever =) )
Anyways… Just a little feedback. Putting an & before # did not solve my problem either. I guess I’ll just have to use JavaScript for IE6 to work.

By: j1nn

j1nn — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:37:54 +0000

indeed stupid ie.
did not work for me either..

By: Tammy

Tammy — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:11:33 +0000

& doesnt work for me either. I’m coding in ColdFusion and all ColdFusion dynamic values are outputed between the two # so having a # in front of an anchor doesnt really help, especially with redirection. My page loads just fine, just doesnt jump to anchor. Stupid IE