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href="#" redirects to the index page but not to the current page's top

Answer 1

+4 A:

My initial thought is that you may have a base tag in play somewhere. Check your code for something like the following, and remove it if necessary:

<base href="http://www.mydomain.com/testpage.php" />

Obviously, caution is necessary as there may be some markup that is dependent upon any pre-existing base tags. Also make sure that your href value is not preceded with a foward slash like this:

<a href="/#anything">Click Me</a>

As this will go to #anything on the default startpage of the root directory.

Jonathan Sampson 2010-02-10 17:02:07

yep found the base tag and just confirmed it to be the root of the evil. Thanks!

Brock 2010-02-11 15:36:32

@Brock Was that intended to a pun? :) Hehe.

Jonathan Sampson 2010-02-11 16:14:32

Answer 2

+2 A:

Do you perhaps have an <base> tag in the <head> section of your code?

That will make all relative url requests start with the specified href in the base tag. If the page relies on it's presence, I'd strongly discourage you from remove it or you might be in for a lot of updating.

More info:

http://w3schools.com/tags/tag_base.asp

Tatu Ulmanen 2010-02-10 17:02:22

Thanks, base tag it is.

Brock 2010-02-11 15:37:02

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