X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/df20a91bc9efe48cb96ecb7efd39643a816dd489..c944bffe3dbad0746880a0cd573808f04505ebdd:/doc/ikiwiki/wikilink/discussion.mdwn?ds=inline diff --git a/doc/ikiwiki/wikilink/discussion.mdwn b/doc/ikiwiki/wikilink/discussion.mdwn index b146c9447..d6df4cbf6 100644 --- a/doc/ikiwiki/wikilink/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/ikiwiki/wikilink/discussion.mdwn @@ -43,6 +43,11 @@ BTW, ikiwiki doesn't displays the #foo anchor in the example >> Fixed that --[[Joey]] +The 'name' attribute of the 'a' element is a depracated way to create a named anchor. The right way to do that is using the 'id' attribute of any element. This is because an anchor may refer to a complete element rather than some point in the page. + +Standard purity aside, if you define an anchor (using either 'a name' or 'id') to a single point in the document but refer to a complete section, the browser may just show that specific point at the bottom of the page rather than trying to show all the section. +--[[tzafrir]] + --- Considering a hierarchy like `foo/bar/bar`, I had the need to link from the