Accessing Anchors in a layer

Jadigidy

I hope this question makes sense and somebody can help me. I have a layer with three layers inside of it. Each layer has an anchor attached to it. Is it possible to access each one of these anchors through the http protocol, or should I break up each layer into the main document and access each one of them there? Thanks for any help

<div id="bodyContent">
   <div id="layer1">
      <a name="one" id="one"></a> 
   </div>
   <div id="layer2">
      <a name="two" id="two"></a>
   </div>
   <div id="layer3">
      <a name="three" id="three"></a>
   </div>
</div>

Once again, I'm trying to access these pages using a hyperlink:
Example: http://www.mysite.com/index.php????

Weedpacket

What do you mean "access"? Do you mean you want to do something like http://www.example.com/index.php#three to get the anchor named "three" in the page?
(This, incidentally, wouldn't be an use of HTTP, but HTML URLs).

Jadigidy

Yes, I'm trying to go to this anchor embedded in a layer but I can't get it to work. I use the same URL you do, but whether my code is the way I had it above, or like it is below, it won't jump to the place on the page. My first question is will anchors not work if they are embedded in a layer?

Then, I thought maybe it wasn't working because I was creating all of the script dynamically (php of course) and that the tag wasn't there when the URL is looking for the anchor to jump to. So the second question is this true? Can you not create anchor tags dynamically and expect the page to jump to that tag?

<div id="bodyContent">
   <a name="one" id="one"></a> 
   <div id="layer1">
   </div>
   <a name="two" id="two"></a>
   <div id="layer2">
   </div>
   <a name="three" id="three"></a>
   <div id="layer3">
   </div>
</div>

NOW, I'm still using the code above, I've taken the layer creation out of the php section and just allow it to spit the content in. My anchors are static. But still not working, any direction?

Rodney_H_

You should, in theory, be able to create dynamic anchors, and yes, anchors will work in layers. Even if the parent layer's height and width are constant and set to scroll:auto; using CSS. (I was curious so did a quick test: example)

<html>
<head>
<title>:::TEST:::</title>
<style type="text/css">
#bodyContent { height:200px; overflow:auto; }
#layer, #layer1, #layer2, #layer3 { height:800px; }
#layer { background:yellow; }
#layer1 { background:blue; }
#layer2 { background:red; }
#layer3 { background:green; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p><a href="<?php echo '#top'; ?>">TOP</a> | 
<a href="<?php echo '#one'; ?>">one</a> | 
<a href="<?php echo '#two'; ?>">two</a> | 
<a href="<?php echo '#three'; ?>">three</a></p>
<hr />
<div id="bodyContent">
<a name="top" id="top"></a> 
<div id="layer">TOP</div> 
<a name="one" id="one"></a> 
<div id="layer1">LAYER ONE</div>  

<a name="two" id="two"></a> 
<div id="layer2">LAYER TWO</div>  

<a name="three" id="three"></a>  

<div id="layer3">LAYER THREE
</div>
</div> 
</body>
</html>

Therefore, allow me to suggest you post the php code used to generate the links to the anchors, etc...