[actually not exactly solved] anchor tags to different page?

[ladyr0gue]

Having a wee problem with my anchor tag - you see I have an anchor halfway down a page which I would like to access from other pages. trying things like

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 {anchor anchor='example#ANC' text='Example Anchor (ANC)'}

and

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 {anchor anchor='example.html#ANC' text='Example Anchor (ANC)'}

and even

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 {anchor anchor='http://www.mysite.com/cmsms/example.html#ANC' text='Example Anchor (ANC)'}

and I keep getting results like
"mysite.com/cmsms/page-I-was-on/#example#ANC
"mysite.com/cmsms/page-I-was-on/#example.html#ANC
"mysite.com/cmsms/page-I-was-on/#http://www.mysite.com/cmsms/example#ANC

rather than
"mysite.com/cmsms/example#ANC

where am I going wrong? how do I get off the page?

[staartmees]

don't use the # in an anchor.

{anchor anchor='ANC' text='Example Anchor (ANC)'}

[ladyr0gue]

ar, there we go... thanks. just wondering - is there anything wrong with using html to do these things? it seems to work fine...

[ladyr0gue]

so if I can't use the hash tag - how do I link to an anchor on a different page? see the thing is, I want to go from the page I was on to "mysite.com/cmsms/example#ANC .. not "mysite.com/cmsms/page-I-was-on#ANC ...

[staartmees]

first place the anchor ANC on your page example,
second place the link mysite.com/cmsms/example#ANC on the page your on.

[ladyr0gue]

first place the anchor ANC on your page example,
second place the link mysite.com/cmsms/example#ANC on the page your on.

I think thats where I was having trouble - cms_selflink doesn't like the #tag and the wysiwyg doesn't offer a way to link to anchors - so would you just put in standard html link?

eidt: so what I mean to say is - I know how to make html anchor tag links from another page I just wondered if there was a cmsms {} tag way to do it ...

and also wondered if for any reason cmsms tags in general were particularly preferable to html tags other than because they are slightly smaller....