I'm not a HTML expert (I haven't a clue really) which is why I'm using visual site designer, version 6. Its great. However I'm trying to add page jumps on my home page. I'm doing this so most of my content is on the home page to improve SEO. I used the commands <A HREF="#top"> Back to top</A> and <A NAME= "top"> (for example) and put them into a html box and placed those boxes on the site in the places I wanted the jumps to start and end. It worked fine when I tested it in preview but when I uploaded it all it did was jump to the end of the page. Its incredibly frustrating as this sites how I earn my living!
the website is irishvaluations.com if you'd like a look and see what you think. Any suggestions are most welcome.
David Dupuy
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Jo Rice
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10,951 posts
Hello David,
I'm not sure what is wrong since it works fine for me in FF 3.5.5. I tried it in IE8 though and it's doing exactly what you said, going to the bottom instead of the top. It could be that there needs to be some special coding for IE browsers to recognize that setting maybe. I'm not sure on that though as to what it might be so hopefully someone else will know. At least now you know it works good in FF
I'm not sure what is wrong since it works fine for me in FF 3.5.5. I tried it in IE8 though and it's doing exactly what you said, going to the bottom instead of the top. It could be that there needs to be some special coding for IE browsers to recognize that setting maybe. I'm not sure on that though as to what it might be so hopefully someone else will know. At least now you know it works good in FF
Per
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Like Jo Ann, I find that in FF it jumps to the top as intended, but Safari (Win) and Chrome jumps to the bottom just like IE8. And now for the interesting part: In Opera the jump goes to the middle somewhere! Someone cleverer than me needs to figure this one out...
A thought, though: How about trying to put an explicit locator at the top of the HTML, where you want it to jump, after the body tag : <a name="top"></a>
A thought, though: How about trying to put an explicit locator at the top of the HTML, where you want it to jump, after the body tag : <a name="top"></a>
Per
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Chad Spillars
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Take out the slash before the anchor.
For example, instead of "http://www.irishvaluations.com/#top"
It would look like this
"http://www.irishvaluations.com#top"
Let me know if that fixes your problem.
For example, instead of "http://www.irishvaluations.com/#top"
It would look like this
"http://www.irishvaluations.com#top"
Let me know if that fixes your problem.
Chad Spillars
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Chad Spillars
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By the way this would get a lot more hits in the developers thread. This isn't actually a VSD question, it's an html question :-)
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Per
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OK, I finally found the anchor named "top" on line 279. (Shouldn't it have a closing tag, </a>, though?)
Chad: to me this really is a VSD issue, since it is related to the 'black box-type' auto-generation of code. Just an opinion...
Maybe the suggestion at the top of the page: "Best Viewed on Internet Explorer", at least for the time being, needs to be changed to: "Must be Viewed on Firefox 3.5"
Chad: to me this really is a VSD issue, since it is related to the 'black box-type' auto-generation of code. Just an opinion...
Maybe the suggestion at the top of the page: "Best Viewed on Internet Explorer", at least for the time being, needs to be changed to: "Must be Viewed on Firefox 3.5"
Per
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Per
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So, I tried a couple of things:
1. Adding the closing tag to the anchor (<a name="top"></a>) changes the jumping a bit: FF, Chrome and Safari now jump to the middle
instead of to the end.
FF and IE jump as intended to the top.
2. When I replace the CSS-defined location of the anchor to a simple HTML-defined location, all the browsers act as intended with a jump to the top:
.....
</head>
<body >
<A NAME= "top"></a>
.....
1. Adding the closing tag to the anchor (<a name="top"></a>) changes the jumping a bit: FF, Chrome and Safari now jump to the middle
instead of to the end. FF and IE jump as intended to the top.
2. When I replace the CSS-defined location of the anchor to a simple HTML-defined location, all the browsers act as intended with a jump to the top:
.....
</head>
<body >
<A NAME= "top"></a>
.....
Per
www.mingas.com
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David Dupuy
Registered User
8 posts
Tried that. Its working in IE (haven't got FF). But Chrome still doesn't like it. Its jumping to the middle of the page. And the 'back to top' link sends a bit further down. Is this because chrome is too simplistic (or a load of crap?)
David Dupuy
Registered User
8 posts
Chad Spillars wrote:
Take out the slash before the anchor.
For example, instead of "http://www.irishvaluations.com/#top"
It would look like this
"http://www.irishvaluations.com#top"
Let me know if that fixes your problem.
Take out the slash before the anchor.
For example, instead of "http://www.irishvaluations.com/#top"
It would look like this
"http://www.irishvaluations.com#top"
Let me know if that fixes your problem.
How do I do this on VSD?
David Dupuy
Registered User
8 posts
</head>
<body >
<A NAME= "top"></a>
Do I enter this exactly as it looks into the HTML black box?
Sorry for these dopey questions but I don't understand HTML at all so I just want to make sure I'm doing it right?
<body >
<A NAME= "top"></a>
Do I enter this exactly as it looks into the HTML black box?
Sorry for these dopey questions but I don't understand HTML at all so I just want to make sure I'm doing it right?
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