Jumping to anchors in JSP

Question

When jumping to anchors on a JSP, HTML anchors do not work. Eg, something like

<a href="#name">Link</a>
...
<div id="name"></div>

fails because the server actually looks for a file named "filename.jps#name" and returns an error. Is there any workaround for this?

andyb · Answer 1 · 2011-11-08T06:47:30.437

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What you describe is called a fragment identifier and the target can be a named anchor or an identified element, for example

<a href="#foo">go to foo</a>
<a name="foo">foo</a>
<div id="foo">foo</div>

with the named anchor variation demonstrated in this demo

Please also note that the HTML5 specification has deprecated the name attribute for a elements has been dropped, so an id would be the only HTML5 valid way to navigate to a fragment identifier.

edited Nov 08 '11 at 06:47

answered Nov 08 '11 at 00:05

andyb

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*Must*? Wrong. An element ID is also perfectly valid. See http://jsfiddle.net/NTSjt/ – BalusC Nov 08 '11 at 00:29
Nice spot thanks @BalusC. I have updated my answer. I also remembered that anchor `name` is deprecated in HTML5. – andyb Nov 08 '11 at 06:47

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

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I think that you've set a <base> tag in your document. All identifier links are also relative to it. If this is true, then you need to change your identifier links from

<a href="#name">

to

<a href="${pageContext.request.requestURI}#name">

Jumping to anchors in JSP

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