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href anchor tags not working

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CLJuckes
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I am trying to add anchor tags into a webpage to enable us to link to specific sections of a rather long page.

I am using <a name="name"> which works in Chrome, Safari and IE, however in Firefox, it is constantly reloading the page.

An example of this is here http://www.sippcentre.co.uk/infocentre/Article/news-views-december-13#soft-closed

Am I doing something wrong?

I am trying to add anchor tags into a webpage to enable us to link to specific sections of a rather long page. I am using <a name="name"> which works in Chrome, Safari and IE, however in Firefox, it is constantly reloading the page. An example of this is here http://www.sippcentre.co.uk/infocentre/Article/news-views-december-13#soft-closed Am I doing something wrong?

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Daniel Phillips
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Even though we're not here to support specific coding issues, I can't help you without seeing your code.

CLJuckes
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Sorry, I thought this was just a message board for all types of queries.

The tag has been coded with the following:

<a name="soft-closed"></a>Soft-closed funds
cor-el
cor-el
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It looks that there is some JavaScript running on the web page that gets triggered by a hash (#) symbol in the URL in the location bar (document.location).
It works with JavaScript disabled.