Unable to display links ending in #

[Guest]

Hi

I am using Internet Explorer 6 and have a problem on a number of different websites that utilize URLs ending in #.

Notably, the "Send" button on the new Hotmail format does not execute.

I have all of the Java options enabled for the web browser.

When I click on the send button, the URL in the address box changes to reflect the # at the end, however nothing on the screen changes.

I have tried reinstalling Windows with no success.

Any help would be appreciated as I am currently cut off from my email

Thanks

Brad

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

I am using Internet Explorer 6 and have a problem on a number of

different websites that utilize URLs ending in #.

Often the problem is simply that the page has been recoded.
Have you checked the source of the page to see if the anchor name
is still the one that is being given? (Search for something like <a name= )

In fact, it might be useful for you to try a Ctrl-F5 refresh. (E.g. if the
page is being constructed dynamically some of its elements such as
Javascript files might be out of date but the page itself is still being
registered as being current, perhaps by an intermediate cache.)

Otherwise when this happens to me invariably spaces or other
special charactes are used in the anchor. In that case the spaces or
special characters may be represented by their escaped hex string
equivalents (e.g. space would be represented by %20.) For some
reason (perhaps a character set issue) I have had to go into the source
and copy the anchor name out of it, replace what appears to be the
identical anchor name in the Address bar and press Enter. Usually that
is sufficient to make the anchor work. It's a mystery but it doesn't happen
often enough for me to have done any more analysis of it.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle