need help with slow anchors
HI yall, I use anchor tags on my page, but the first time when you click on a link that sends you to an anchor, my site always stalls a bit before sending you down there. But after that first time, every link to an anchor works instantaneously.
My page is just html, with some thumbnails, and two javascripts: one for displaying the date, and the other for tracking traffic.
Lastly, when I made the links to the anchors, it was in frontpage, and I used "place in this document" for the link, with target as 'page default (none)'. At the time of creating the link, the string is index.html#anchor
but after publishing, I look at the code and it's been changed to mysite.com/index.html#anchor
Why does it stall during the first click to an anchor? Thanks!
teammatt3 posted this at 00:07 — 22nd September 2005.
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Can you give us a URL, so we can see it in action?
Roo posted this at 00:57 — 22nd September 2005.
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Well in Firefox I have no problems...however when the target in on the same page don't put the file name..just put the target. It sounds like your browser is reloading the whole page when it doesn't need to if you do this better.
This is what you have:
a href="index.html#surgeon"
All you need is:
a href="#surgeon"
*Edit*
If you are jumping to a target from another page, then you'd use the index.html, plus the target, otherwise you don't need to.
Roo
Anita.Bonghit posted this at 02:02 — 22nd September 2005.
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Yes, that was it. Links to anchors are fixed, and fast now! Thx Roo, much appreciated
Busy posted this at 11:02 — 22nd September 2005.
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The page or at least the anchor must be loaded before it can be found as well, especially coming from another page, if the page is long or has badly nested tags it can appear stalled until fully loaded.
Anita.Bonghit posted this at 03:34 — 23rd September 2005.
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Didn't know that either; good to know now though, thx.
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