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Re: back to top

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From: Penny Roberts
Date: Jan 10, 2006 6:20AM

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

> I'm not sure what your problems with the links are, but they probably
> add some points to the reasons of saying an emphatic "No!" to "Back to
> Top" links. Those links might be implemented in a wrong way, making them
> fail to work at times. (Technically, <a name="top"></a>, with no content
> between the tags, is a correct way of setting up a destination anchor,
> but browsers have been reported to fail with links pointing to such
> destinations. The best way to refer to the start of a document is to use
> a link with href="#", but links to the start are hardly every useful.)

This is a general question, not specifically about this thread so I've
changed the subject. What is wrong with 'Back to top' links? Are they
an accessibility issue? I've never come across anyone criticising them
and I'm interested to know what the objection is.
Personally, as a *user*, I find them very useful in areas like long
FAQs where I want to look at several, but not all, of the answers.

Penny