Friday, September 9, 2016

Goodbye named anchors

Goodbye named anchors


Ever have that embarrassing moment when as an IT professional you realize youve been following a deprecated or unsupported process for years?  I had that a while back when I was still under the false impression you had to restart Windows to apply new updates to the PATH environment variable.

Well, this week it happened again: no more named anchors.


Old way:
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="top">Top of page</a>

New HTML5 way:
<h1 id="top"> My web page
<h1 id="top">
with the top of page link being
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7268743010500230881#top">Top of page</a>


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