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RE: Skip navigation coding

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From: Patrick Lauke
Date: Aug 18, 2005 5:00AM

> Penny Roberts

> > <div id="menu">
> > <a href="#menu" class="rm">skip to navigation</a>
> > <span class="rm"> | </span>

> I think that the link skips TO navigation rather than
> skipping over it (if
> you see what I mean). Try it on that page and you will see
> that using the
> "skip to navigation" link takes the focus to the top of the
> left hand menu.

But the way it was coded above meant that the link was pointing
to #menu, just before the link itself, thus creating a loop.

P
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