[pmwiki-users] Re: Visble anchors (Re: FAQ Page Layout)

[Neil Herber]

At 2005-08-04  07:27 PM +0200, chr at home.se is rumored to have said:
>I think you misunderstand the visible anchor... Assume I've found a
>suitable answer in an FAQ that has lots of questions. Now I need the URI
>of this answer. Since I needed to actually read the answer, it's right in
>there in the browser window. There is also the *visible* anchor just to
>the left of the question, where the visible anchor is actually a link that
>points to this question. Now I can just use Copy Link Location to get the
>URI of question. Otherwise I have to:
>
>* Go to the TOC
>* Search the TOC for the item pointing to the question/answer I was
>   just looking at
>* Copy Link Location ...
>
>See here for instance http://wiki.lyx.org/SiteTest/VisibleAnchors
>
>Btw, Opera also has Copy Link Location although it's name is slightly
>different IRCC. I really hate using IE because it doesn't have this...

Ahhhh...

I did not realize that the visible anchor pointed to itself. That is excellent.

As for IE, the process requires a few extra clicks:
* find answer
* click on visible anchor
* copy URL out of the address bar


Neil

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