Hyperlinking straight to a product

[mirrorblue]

I know this has been raised before but can't seem to get this working using what's already been said.

Basically I want to add to an email most commonly, or maybe in future a web page a hyperlink directly to a product on a page with multiple products. As far as I can make out each product has a built in anchor based on its product reference preceded with an "a" so I created a hyperlink of "http://www.seltekwarehouse.co.uk/acatalog/flammable-storage.html#aWP-892300" where flammable-storage.html is the page where the product resides and WP-892300 is the product ref.

Perhaps I'm missing something but this link just goes to the top of the page, not the product specified. Any advice much appreciated.

[leehack]

You've added an 'a' for some reason, try removing that:

"http://www.seltekwarehouse.co.uk/acatalog/flammable-storage.html#WP-892300"

The anchor is a hidden tag within the product layout, already added for you.

[mirrorblue]

Hi Lee

Somewhere in an old thread it was said an "a" should be added - <a href="widgets.html#a1234">Off we go</a>

But if I remove the "a" it still only links to the top of the page, not the product.

[Duncan Rounding]

Here's an example link to that product:

http://www.seltekwarehouse.co.uk/acatalog/flammable-storage.html#aWP_2d892300

Note that (in your case at least) you do need the preceeding 'a'. Also note the '2d' in the middle which means a dash.

Use Firefox with Firebug and you will see all the underlying code easily.

[leehack]

My apologies Tony, i think i gave you bum information. It appears that the product ref when used in an anchor does have to be proceeded by an 'a' in actinic. I have no idea why to be honest, in normal html i've never used anything but the name of the anchor, i can only presume it is something to do with the way in which actinic works.

PS - if you add a product to your cart and then click the link actually in the cart to go back to the product, you can see how the link is formed in the address bar. It does always seem to add an 'a'.

[Duncan Rounding]

The 'a' is added into the design by default but can easily be removed. Often wondered why is was added myself.

[leehack]

Strange one, maybe it's to ensure that all anchors start with a letter or something like that.

[Mike Hughes]

In a nutshell, the 'a' is needed because Actinic adds it to the Anchor.

In this case, the anchor appears to be

<a name="aWP_2d892300">

which is the reason why

http://www.seltekwarehouse.co.uk/aca...tml#aWP-892300

doesn't find it but

http://www.seltekwarehouse.co.uk/aca...l#aWP_2d892300

does.

It would appear Actinic is converting the '-' to '_2d'.

Mike

PS. Oops. Re-reading I see Duncan has already explained this.