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permalink.gif Weigh anchor

Fri Dec 19 23:32:20 GMT 2003  Permalink 

Apologies if I wasn't very clear about my anchor problem. As Michael Fagan realised; What I wanted was to be able to go to an arbitrary page and see all the anchors available in the page. Michaal was able to suggest a possible solution for IE users however I am Mozilla convert these days.

Not to be out-done I learned how to write a bookmarklet to do the job. Drag this link to your toolbar and call it something like Show Anchors. Then go to a page that you know there will be some anchors hidden in and click the button. All anchors will appear as link with text [*] and whose href is the fully qualified URL of the anchor point.

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permalink.gif Keeping your anchor out of sight

Fri Dec 19 14:45:46 GMT 2003  Permalink 

Something puzzles me every time I start looking for references to things (for example right now I am trying to find the best reference I can that describes what a Published Subject Indicator is in simple terms) is why Browsers don't have a feature that might called something like: "Show me all anchors in the current document and let me copy the fully qualified URL of a selected anchor to the clipboard." Why am I forced to view source, pick my way back to the point I started from and copy from there? Has anyone got any tricks for making this easier?
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