Problem with URL linking to an 'a element'

[demalpas]

The following URL works perfectly on every page of the site except the Home (index) page.

Click <a href="info.html#q1"><b>HERE</b></a> for full details and any exclusions

On the home page of the site, the link resolves as

http://www.morethanmowers.co.uk/info.html#q1

instead of http://www.morethanmowers.co.uk/acatalog/info.html#q1

On all other pages (catalog pages as well as ordinary html pages) it resolves correctly as http://www.morethanmowers.co.uk/acatalog/info.html#q1

However ..... if I remove the the # and name value, the link resolves correctly on the home page as

http://www.morethanmowers.co.uk/acatalog/info.html

On the site, the link can be found in the right hand column under Delivery Info

as "Click HERE for full details and any exclusions."

Is there any way of fixing this please? Many thanks if anyone can help

Mike de Malpas

[NormanRouxel]

The anchor is confusing Actinic's parsing of the pages. Either lose the #q1 or use the full http://www.morethanmowers.co.uk/acatalog/info.html#q1 URL.

[Golf Tee Warehouse]

Changing
<a href="info.html#q1">
to
<a href="http://www.morethanmowers.co.uk/acatalog/info.html#q1">

might fix the problem.

[malbro]

The following URL works perfectly on every page of the site except the Home (index) page.

Click <a href="info.html#q1"><b>HERE</b></a> for full details and any exclusions

However ..... if I remove the the # and name value, the link resolves correctly on the home page as

http://www.morethanmowers.co.uk/acatalog/info.html

This seems to be another example of actinic incorrectly parsing URL's is this a bug in Actinic that should be reported or has it already been reported? The same occurs with js files if passed a parameter, and they then fail to work correctly in preview mode as well.

[demalpas]

Problem with URL linking to an 'a element'

Thanks to all of you for your responses. Clearly putting in the full URL works - at least on the live site, but requires a different URL on the test site. This is not a good resolution in my opinion but may be all that is available with the Actinic code as it exists.

As some one has indicated, there appears to be a parsing problem with Actinic that the developers need to fix.

Thanks again for your help.

Mike de Malpas

[leehack]

Don't hard code the full URL, use the actinic URL variable, it will add in what you have in network settings and therefore be dynamic.

[NormanRouxel]

Lee is spot on. Use:

Click <a href="<actinic:variable name="InfoURL" />#q1"><b>HERE</b></a> for full details and any exclusions

Another route, useful if you were trying to link to a specific page that doesn't have an Actinic variable available, would be:

<a href="page.html" onclick="this.href=this.href+'#anc';">Click me</a>

However search engines would only see the link to the page top, not the specific anchored item.