[solved] Anchor tags sending me to site home page

[Biggles_downunder]

I have returned to using CMSMS after a long absence (a long story for another day) and I have begun using version 1.9.4 of CMS Made Simple and version 2.8.4 of TinyMCE.

I set up a page with anchors and links to those anchors further down the page. After setting these up they don't work. No matter which anchor tag I click on, I go to the home page of the site.

Searching the forums shows that this was a problem with earlier versions of CMSMS and TinyMCE, but I would have thought something as basic as this would have been fixed by now - or am I missing something fundamental.

I did try reading the proffered solutions for the earlier versions, but they seemed pretty complex to implement for a mere mortal like me.

Is someone able to give me a blow-by-blow solution?

I don't recall having this problem with the earlier versions (I think it was about version 1.6 something).

Looking forward to a solution.

Thanks, Wayne

Edited to fix spelling (

[Biggles_downunder]

Hm, should have known: Google is my friend.

I found the solution after a bit of hunting in my lunch-hour. See here:
http://www.tosd.com.au/2008/12/insertin ... de-simple/

The solution is actually in the 4th reply to the post.

Ridiculously easy actually! Simply replace the {metadata} tag in your template with {metadata showbase="false"}

Sorry for wasting everyone's time

~Wayne

[gocreative]

FYI - while this works, it causes all Gallery images to 'break'.

[GroeneKaktus]

Dear all,

I'm having the same problem with the anchors, but the solution posted above doesn't work for me. Any other options maybe?

Using CMSms 1.10

Grtz Jeroen

[spcherub]

When you have the links to the anchors, try adding the page_alias variable as a prefix, something like this:

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<a href="{$page_alias}#anchor1">Link to Anchor 1</a>

-S

[GroeneKaktus]

When you have the links to the anchors, try adding the page_alias variable as a prefix, something like this:

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<a href="{$page_alias}#anchor1">Link to Anchor 1</a>

-S

thanks S, for your reply

indeed, this is an option which I already found effective a few days ago,
though it should be possible for my non-technical editor of the website to just insert an anchor and not having to dig into the source code.

Regards, Jeroen

[gocreative]

it should be possible for my non-technical editor of the website to just insert an anchor and not having to dig into the source code.

I agree completely. Surely there is a better way to achieve this without the need to edit HTML code/use Smarty tags.

[spcherub]

I should have pointed out that there is a simpler way to insert anchor tags and that is to use the {anchor} extension tag. Yes it still looks like and is a smarty tag but does not require the author to leave the WYSIWYG mode. Look at Extensions > Tags > Anchor for usage information.

Hope that helps.

S

[gocreative]

Yeah, but still not particularly friendly for the novice end user.