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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 (

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

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

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

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

spcherub wrote: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

GroeneKaktus wrote: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.

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

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