[ic] anchors in area tags

John Beima interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Tue Aug 6 21:04:01 2002


Quoting Kevin Walsh <kevin@cursor.biz>:

> > 
> > That won't work either. Because if the [area] tag happens to include the
> session
> > information you would get:
> > 
> > http://www.domain.com/page.html?mv_session_id=XxXxXxXx#content
> > 
> Which is exactly what's required.

This will NOT work, becuase the #content is after the "?" and hence it will be
treated as cgi variables. The #content MUST reside BEFORE the "?".

> >
> > What you need to do instead is:
> > 
> > <A
> REF="http://__SERVER_NAME____CGI_URL__/page.html#content?mv_session_id=[data
> > session id]&">Content</A>
> > 
> That won't work - sorry.

The above example works perfectly. We use it in MANY cases. It also allows for
domain/site independed coding.


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