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Anchor Link only works in 1 place!

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Jumpeeman
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Hi! I've never used the "Anchor Link" feature in all the years I've been using Thunderbird. I just wrote a lengthy email and, up near the top, I inserted an "anchor link" that, if clicked, it would skip past the next 6 or so paragraphs and just jump down to the Named Anchor at the bottom of my email named "Conclusion".

When I sent the test email to myself, and opened it on the computer that it was created on, it works perfectly! BUT on my phone, webmail browser, etc., it doesn't work at all. It either does nothing when clicked or, it's opened another window on the internet apparently trying to go to an outside link, it's gone UP to the top of the email and a few other wonky things.

I suppose I don't really NEED this to work, but it is a cool feature that I'd like the option to use once in a while and wondered if anyone else has had this issue?

Thanks in advance for taking a look. . pretty cool feature when it works

Hi! I've never used the "Anchor Link" feature in all the years I've been using Thunderbird. I just wrote a lengthy email and, up near the top, I inserted an "anchor link" that, if clicked, it would skip past the next 6 or so paragraphs and just jump down to the Named Anchor at the bottom of my email named "Conclusion". When I sent the test email to myself, and opened it on the computer that it was created on, it works perfectly! BUT on my phone, webmail browser, etc., it doesn't work at all. It either does nothing when clicked or, it's opened another window on the internet apparently trying to go to an outside link, it's gone UP to the top of the email and a few other wonky things. I suppose I don't really NEED this to work, but it is a cool feature that I'd like the option to use once in a while and wondered if anyone else has had this issue? Thanks in advance for taking a look. . pretty cool feature when it works

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Matt
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the anchor link you are using is a standards based link, but implementations of HTML tags is various mail clients can be a bit odd. Not all tags are implemented in all mail client and not all implementations are as good as others.

Unfortunately they don't work on mobile devices. See https://knowledgebase.constantcontact.com/tutorials/KnowledgeBase/33915Tutorial-Why-you-Shouldn-t-Use-Anchor-Links-in-Your-Emails?lang=en_US

Mobile devices are actually a large set backwards in many areas, due largely to slow processors, limited storage and limited memory. All of which is about limited energy in the battery. Often limits are imposed and features omitted to make a slow tool appear more robust than it is.

Jumpeeman
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Hey Matt

Thanks for your response. So I guess what you're basically saying is that the feature doesn't work? I wasn't specifically looking at Mobile devices (although that makes sense now that I think about it) as it was acting weird on my laptop.

Curious, why is an "Anchor Link" on a webpage is different than in an email body? They all seem to work pretty consistently like "click here to go back to top of page", etc. . .

Anyway, not a bit deal. .I've haven't used it in the years I've been using Thunderbird so I'm sure I can live without it. . just thought it was kinda cool when I go into my long-winded explanations that for the people that just "want the answer", click here and see it!

Thanks again :-)

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Matt
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I really have no idea why mobile don't do it. Likewise I really do not understand why it is odd in other ways. I just know that it is not worth the effort.

Jumpeeman
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Thanks Matt. . again, no biggie. . just thought it was kinda cool but I'll forget about it.