[semi-OT] Using Anchor tags with query string parameters

[Matthew Horn <mhorn -at- macromedia -dot- com>]

Sorry for the semi-OT message, but it relates to documentation in that I am working on online docs and am having an HTML issue...

Is it possible to use (non-local) anchor tags with query string parameters? If so, how?

Example:
---------page.php---------

...
<A HREF="page.php#topic1?type=unix">Go to Topic</A>
...
<A NAME="topic1">

--------------------------

This doesn't work. The browser does nothing because it interprets the anchor tag as "#topic1?type=unix" which doesn't exist. Trying iut the other way around doesn't work either (?type=unix#topic1) because then the value of type is interpreted as unix#topic1.

I can think of a possible solution: use a POST form, but that would require implementing the page differently, which I don't want to do.

Thanks for any help, on or offlist.

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Matthew J. Horn
Sr. Technical Writer
< m a c r o m e d i a > 

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