Do named anchors work in SP2010?

Question

I've been reading that named anchor tags don't work in SharePoint 2010 Server; these are the tags that allow you to jump to a part of a page. In other words, the core.js functionality will prevent you from using /mypage.aspx#myanchor to get to this anchor:

<a name="myanchor"></a>

I've been looking at doing named anchors via the UI but can't seem to find it. Plus these two articles say it wouldn't work anyway: Sharepoint 2010 and Anchor Tags and http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sharepoint2010general/thread/f7eab808-da8a-44fd-9933-f9b992f5affc

Is it true that named anchors (to allow users to jump to a part of a page) don't work in SP2010? If they work, how do you implement it for non-HTML folks who want to add them to pages without editing HTML?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Anchors always work - they are part of the html specification.

Now, it is quite possible that a script overrides the behavior, and apparently this is what happens in SP 2010.

Try the following tests on a public page:

Test 1: link with anchor (one step)

http://sp2010.pathtosharepoint.com/SharePoint-User-Toolkit/default.aspx#mainContent

You can see that the page goes to the anchor, but then goes back to the top of the page.

Test 2: First use the URL without the anchor:

http://sp2010.pathtosharepoint.com/SharePoint-User-Toolkit/default.aspx

Then add the anchor:

http://sp2010.pathtosharepoint.com/SharePoint-User-Toolkit/default.aspx#mainContent

In this case, the anchor works because the page is already loaded.

As for the second part of your question, you can use a Content Editor Web Part to add html without editing the page itself.

Answer 2

Html named anchors work for me fine.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/sharepointcustomization/thread/9b8ee182-c916-4469-a217-dcacc9824bfa/