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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: May 3, 2007 8:20AM

Quoting "Moore, Michael" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >:

> No you are not missing anything, there is a feature of IE does not allow
> in page links to function as expected unless the anchors are located
> within a table cell.

Not just table cell. It's more to do with the hasLayout attribute in
IE. For instance, I have a skiplink on www.salford.ac.uk (hidden until
you focus it, first TAB brings it up) that works just fine without the
need for an <a name="..."> anchor, or table cell, or any other kludge.
It just targets the ID of one of the divs, but because of the way the
content div is styled, IE recognises it as having layout, and treats
it accordingly (i.e. keyboard focus moves to the div, and a subsequent
TAB goes to the first link in the div).

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Patrick H. Lauke