issue with target="_content" from sidebar

Question

Firefox main window is refreshing always if a hyper link which differs only in the HASH part is clicked from the sidebar. I am using target="_content" to achieve this.

Main window url = "www.mydomain.com/index.html". The hyperlink in my sidebar is "www.mydomain.com/index.html#search=testing"

I noticed this if firefox is started with some particular profile only.

Why this behavior? Can anyone help me here?

Answer 1

The 'HASH part' you refer to is an anchor.

I'm not sure if the syntax www.mydomain.com/index.html#search=testing is valid.

There is no mention of it at the W3C HTML 4.0 Recommendation about the syntax of anchor names