Anchor Question

I have an anchor question - I've tried this 2 ways and both work as I expect with Firefox but not IE6.
I have a search box on top - in the region header I put:
<div id="criteria">Footer has:
</div>Then I have a link in the bottom of another region on the same page like:
<a href="#criteria">Return to Criteria</a>As expected it jumps right to the top of the page in Firefox. For whatever reason in IE6 its refreshing the entire page and THEN jumping to the top. Also tried with an anchor like:
<a name="criteria"></a>To no avail either. What am I doing wrong here?

Hi,
I think it may be to do with where the cursor can be positioned. The link is asking the browser to "go to that item" type of thing, so it must move the cursor (thereby bringing the item into view). As DIV tags don't, in themselves, have any standard functionality that requires the cursor (leaving aside onkeyup's etc), I assume that browsers would handle this in different ways - either pretending that the DIV accepts the cursor or moving to the next nearest cursor-accepting item.
But, nodding my head as well, if you've fixed it by moving the DIV tag, that must have been the right thing to do ;)
ANdy

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    I recently was given a jpg file from a guy who said he had already made the selection for me. I wasn't quite sure what he meant but when i saved the image as a tif, opened it in illustrator, and hit CTRL-A to select everything i noticed a cutline was already present. After further examination of the jpg in Photoshop i noticed a "Path 1" on the paths tab, and more importantly that cutline when opened in illustrator was nuts on! Meaning none of the anchor points and handle's needed to be adjusted at all.
    Now the person who sent me this file was a customer so i can't rightly ask them how to better do my job :-) lol ...but maybe someone here can tell me how they (for lack of a better word) embedded a cutline or path i guess it's called into a jpg file like that? This would at least save me the step of exporting my selection to illustrator as an AI file and im wondering if however they did it is more accurate then the "Make Work Path" option i currently use.

    ...useing File | Export | Paths to Illustrator is what i outlined above that i currently do...
    My apologies for not catching that. Honestly, my eyes glazed over at about step 2 of your procedure.
    I'm not happy with the quality of the cutline Photoshop exports to illustrator (the ai file) after i make it a work path.
    A couple of possibilities come to mind. What Tolerance value are you using when you first make a work path out of your selection in Photoshop? 0.5 pixel is the highest precision available, and that's what you should use if you want your path to accurately reflect your selection. Be warned, however, that your path will likely end up with a lot of points, making for an unnecessarily complex path. (Try it with a simple circle.)
    Another possibility is that you're working with a low-quality, low-resolution JPEG as your source image. JPEG compression artifacts can affect selection accuracy (with automated tools, like the magic wand or eraser), and overall resolution, of course, will limit path precision. Not much you can do about that other than to start with better-quality images.
    After further examination of the jpg in Photoshop i noticed a "Path 1" on the paths tab, and more importantly that cutline when opened in illustrator was nuts on!... maybe someone here can tell me how they (for lack of a better word) embedded a cutline or path i guess it's called into a jpg file like that?
    Using a low tolerance (high precision) value make a path from your selection in Photoshop and save the path. Save As a JPG, and the path will be saved along with the image. Do not use Save for Web to create your JPG file.
    As others have pointed out in earlier posts, learning to use the pen tool is your best bet... and an absolute necessity if you're going to be doing a lot of this stuff.
    Regarding the creation of clipping paths in Photoshop, slap me silly, but I'm going to refer you to the manual (online Help) for that. And if you think that unkind, try posting the question over at the Photoshop forum. Wear a helmet.

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