Someone please help me fix my HTML code (hyperlinks)

Factual Questions
1

This problem has been bugging me persistently and nothing I do for it seems to fix it. Here’s the problem: I’m constructing an alphabetically ordered table with hyperlinks that index each letter. The problem I am seeing is that the hyperlinks don’t work except when there are two consecutive hyperlinks occurring with no other data in between. To get a better idea of what I am working with, I have provided a very simplified example of what I am trying to do:


<HTML>
<BODY>
<center>
<font size=5>
<a href="#a">A</a> 
<a href="#b">B</a> 
<a href="#c">C</a> 
</font>
<table border=1>
<a name="a"><tr><td align=center>A
<tr><td><a href="a001.html">a001.html</a>
<tr><td><a href="a002.html">a002.html</a>
<tr><td><a href="a003.html">a003.html</a>
<a name="b"><tr><td align=center>B
<a name="c"><tr><td align=center>C
<tr><td><a href="c001.html">c001.html
</table>
</center>
</BODY>
</HTML>

The only hyperlink that works is “C”. In my actual table, the only hyperlinks that work are the ones that have no data following them, but another hyperlink, in this example, the “B” hyperlink. To actually see how this should work, add extra entries under the “A” section so that there will be enough content for the screen to scroll down (I made it short for the sake of posting this example, my actual table is much larger).

This is baffling the hell out of me since it works on a similar table I created before (in fact I built the new table off of the code I used on the old one). So, can someone tell me what’s broken here and what needs to be fixed? I’d surely appreciate the assistance.

2

I think that each of your <a name> tags needs a closing </a>

3

I copied your code and saved it as a html document, then uploaded it into my space - check this page when using IE and tell me if it looks like what you want. If it does, and you have Netscape (4.7 is ideal), check it there and see if it looks wrong.

4

Terminus Est- Adding closing tags didn’t fix it, but I appreciate the suggestion.

Lsura- Yes, that looks correct. Just expand the list of entries under the A section (it doesn’t matter what they are, just so it’s long enough (copy the first three lines underneath it several times and make it about 40 to 50 lines long) to make the screen scroll down when the hyperlinks do what they are supposed to do.) FTR, I only have IE 6.

5

I ran what I put up through Doctor HTML to see what came up - because one thing that stands out is that your < tr > and < td > tags aren’t closed. That’s why I asked about your browser, since N4.7 will show the errors.

What that site said about the page structure was:

I’m not sure what may be going on beyond that - but it’s making a nice distraction from searching for information in the library databases!

6

Hmmm, try putting the <a name> tag inside the <td> tag. And be sure to close it. My references say </a> is required.

7

Here’s the corrected code. I tested it and it worked for me.


<HTML> 
<BODY> 
<center> 
<font size=5> 
<a href="#a">A</a>  
<a href="#b">B</a>  
<a href="#c">C</a>  
</font> 
<table border=1> 
<tr><td align=center><a name="a">A 
<tr><td><a href="a001.html">a001.html</a> </td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="a002.html">a002.html</a> </td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="a003.html">a003.html</a> </td></tr>
<tr><td align=center><a name="b">B </td></tr>
<tr><td align=center><a name="c">C </td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="c001.html">c001.html </td></tr>
</table> 
</center> 
</BODY> 
</HTML>
8

I tried using Terminus Est’s suggestion by putting the “<a name>” tag inside the<TD>. This did the trick. I’ll also try thewiz’s modifications.

Thanks, guys. You’re all great!