Quick HTML/CSS question

[JackHawksmoor]

I've got a slightly weird situation on a web page. It looks like a CSS file that defines the "a" tag is defining it not only for links, but also for anchors. You can actually see the text used as an anchor displayed as though it were a link, which dosen't happen if the CSS file isn't loaded.

The only work around I can think of is to have the anchor be a non breaking space near the text. Or would it be better just to have nothing in the anchor? Like <a blah...></a> as the anchor?

Which is "better" HTML?

Does that sound plausable that defining the "a" tag would make anchors display? Really weird... (Double checked it and both Mozilla and IE display them)

 

[jjones]

I assume you're talking about the destination anchor you're having this problem with. I haven't tested it but it may very well be true that css does this. However, I've never use any text within the destination anchor; I've always just used the opening and closing tag adjacent to each other, with nothing in between, and placed it on the line before the area of the page I wanted to show.

In other words, something like this:

<p>Preceeding text.......blah, blah</p>
<a name="anchor"></a>
<p>Text I want to show begins here.</p>

You could also do the same if the starting point was within a paragraph, just plunk it down inside the paragraph somewhere where you wanted to begin showing the text.

 

[JackHawksmoor]

Thanks! I'll just start doing that.