Title: Problem jumping into table using anchor
Last modified: August 31, 2016
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# Problem jumping into table using anchor
* Resolved [Growltiger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/growltiger/)
* (@growltiger)
* [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-jumping-into-table-uning-anchor/)
* I hope you can help me solve this problem using TablePress, even though I do
not think there is a bug in TablePress (which is wonderful). I have spent a long
time searching the internet with no luck. I’m sure there are other users who
would benefit from the answer.
* I have a big table and I need to jump from another page into the table, at various
points down the table.
I inserted anchors in the first column, like this: Some
text here Then jump to the page using #link123 at the end of the url. This works
perfectly in Firefox and Chrome, but not in Internet Explorer or Edge, which
jump somewhere near but not to the right place. (All latest versions of browsers).
I also tried putting some text in the anchor, like this: TextSome text here but
it made no difference.
* Given your knowledge of tables and your very many users,perhaps you know a solution
or workaround? Thank you.
* [https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/)
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* Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
* (@tobiasbg)
* [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-jumping-into-table-uning-anchor/#post-7337901)
* Hi,
* thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.
* Can you please post a link to the page with the table where this problem happens,
so that I can take a direct look? Thanks!
* Regards,
Tobias
* Thread Starter [Growltiger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/growltiger/)
* (@growltiger)
* [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-jumping-into-table-uning-anchor/#post-7337905)
* I have some test pages I can experiment with, that show the problem. First go
to this page:
[http://www.ouspenskytoday.org/wp/the-record-of-shankaracharya-audiences-index-b/](http://www.ouspenskytoday.org/wp/the-record-of-shankaracharya-audiences-index-b/)
Look at the 9th row down, which has the word “Beauty” on the left. On the right
end of that row is a link “Story”. Click on that link. In Firefox or Chrome you
will see the relevant story at the top of the window. In Internet Explorer or
Edge you won’t, it will be visible but just somewhere in the window. I’m hoping
there is something I can do to make it work in all browsers. Thanks.
* Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
* (@tobiasbg)
* [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-jumping-into-table-uning-anchor/#post-7337906)
* Hi,
* from what I can see, those links are all going to PDF files? I can then only
assume that only FIrefox and Chrome interpret those extra information about the
link target for PDF files, while IE and Edge don’t. Thus, this might be a limitation
of the links going to PDF and not HTML files.
* In any case, this is not caused by TablePress in any way, so that I can’t really
recommend next steps here :-/
* Regards,
Tobias
* Thread Starter [Growltiger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/growltiger/)
* (@growltiger)
* [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-jumping-into-table-uning-anchor/#post-7337907)
* No, you are clicking in the wrong place. Go to the right hand end of the row
that starts with the word Beauty. It says:
Story of Holy Man who saw beauty
of God in beautiful woman. See also: **Story** Click on the word **Story.**
* Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
* (@tobiasbg)
* [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-jumping-into-table-uning-anchor/#post-7337919)
* Hi,
* ah, my bad. Sorry for the confusion.
* The reason for this might be quite simple: There’s a `/` missing before the `#`,
which still belongs to the permalink.
So, please try using the URL
* ```
http://www.ouspenskytoday.org/wp/the-record-of-shankaracharya-audiences-index-stories/#holy-man-and-beautiful-woman
```
* instead of
* ```
http://www.ouspenskytoday.org/wp/the-record-of-shankaracharya-audiences-index-stories#holy-man-and-beautiful-woman
```
* (Without the `/`, WP probably triggers a 302 Redirect, in which IE drops the
link target, but the the other browsers don’t.)
* Regards,
Tobias
* Thread Starter [Growltiger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/growltiger/)
* (@growltiger)
* [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-jumping-into-table-uning-anchor/#post-7337923)
* Thank you for the suggestion, that is most helpful. I have made that change and
it now also correctly works in Safari, which didn’t work at all before.
Unfortunately
Internet Explorer and Edge still don’t work properly. What is extraordinary is
that the first time you click the Story link it always works perfectly. But if
you go back to that page and do it again, it doesn’t, it goes to the wrong place.
Even refreshing the Story page doesn’t work, it keeps going to the wrong place.
What seems to be happening is that it is ignoring the end of the URL on subsequent
visits, and it opens the page at more or less the same position that you left
it at previously. I can’t understand this.
* Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
* (@tobiasbg)
* [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-jumping-into-table-uning-anchor/#post-7337933)
* Hi,
* yeah, this sounds really strange then. However, I can only assume that this is
caused by IE itself. The HTML code is totally correct from what I can see, and
TablePress is doing nothing to change or influence this behavior.
* Some ideas that you could maybe test:
Change
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* to
* ```
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* or
* ```
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* Maybe the other HTML codes are recognized better by IE.
* Regards,
Tobias
* Thread Starter [Growltiger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/growltiger/)
* (@growltiger)
* [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-jumping-into-table-uning-anchor/#post-7337948)
* Thanks for the suggestions. Using name= is officially deprecated so I didn’t
want to try that (I doubt it would help.)
I tried