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ie disregards anchors

Hi! I have an anchor on my webpage:

<a name="here"></a>

and I link to it as usual: http://mysite.com/mypage.aspx#here

Which works just fine in FF but for some reason it doesn't scroll to the anchor in internet explorer.

What now? What cunning hack do I need to employ to solve this mystery of the ages? (Darn that ie browser)

+1  A: 

If it's an empty anchor shouldn't it be < a name="here" /> or more correctly < a id="here" name="here />

T.Wild  2010-08-26 21:52:52
That did solve it! Not the id-part but removing the </a> and inserting a / in the a-tag.Thanks.
Mr W  2010-08-27 07:41:43
The ID attribute is really only needed for XHTML and/or Javascript getElementById I generally use both for compatibility.
T.Wild  2010-08-27 12:34:52

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