Internal links with cgi

Hi,



I have a link like this. <a href="http://127.0.0.1/link.cgi#word">word</a>.



When I click on the link word, I want the link.cgi to execute and then it
should navigate to the word "word".



Link.cgi is executed and everytime it navigates to the top of the page
instead of navigating to the word "word".

Its not happening for me. Is it valid in cgi or am I missing something.



Thanks,

Ankur

On Mar 26, 2005, at 11:41 AM, Ankur Gupta wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>
> I have a link like this. <a
> href="http://127.0.0.1/link.cgi#word">word</a>.
>
>
>
> When I click on the link word, I want the link.cgi to execute and then
> it
> should navigate to the word "word".
>

This sounds like a job for Javascript. You can probably do this with an
"onload" command and I suppose it's a simple script at that, but I
don't have an example handy. Shouldn't be too hard to find one
though...

Kindest Regards,

--
Bill Stephenson

Thanks David and Bill ...
Using named anchors it worked.. I do not care about old versions of
explorers.

--
Ankur

-----Original Message-----
From: David Dorward,,, [mailto:david@us-lot.org] On Behalf Of David Dorward
Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 11:17 PM
To: Ankur Gupta
Cc: beginners-cgi@perl.org
Subject: Re: Internal links with cgi

On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 11:11:15PM +0530, Ankur Gupta wrote:

> I have a link like this. <a
href="http://127.0.0.1/link.cgi#word">word</a>.

> When I click on the link word, I want the link.cgi to execute and then it
> should navigate to the word "word".

Then wrap that word in a named anchor or (if you are writing modern
code and don't need to support browsers as obsolete as Netscape 4) a
suitable element with an id.

> Its not happening for me. Is it valid in cgi or am I missing something.

All the browser knows is that it has recieved some HTML because it
made a request for an HTTP resource. It doesn't matter how the server
goes about working out what content to send back, CGI, mod_perl, a
static file, its all the same to the client.

--
David Dorward                                      http://dorward.me.uk

On 26/03/2005, Ankur Gupta wrote:

> <a href="http://127.0.0.1/link.cgi#word">word</a>.
>
> When I click on the link word, I want the link.cgi to execute and
> then it should navigate to the word "word".

Add a name="word" attribute to you anchor element:

<a name="word" href="....">word</a>

--
felix

On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 11:11:15PM +0530, Ankur Gupta wrote:

> I have a link like this. <a href="http://127.0.0.1/link.cgi#word">word</a>.[/color
]

> When I click on the link word, I want the link.cgi to execute and then it
> should navigate to the word "word".

Then wrap that word in a named anchor or (if you are writing modern
code and don't need to support browsers as obsolete as Netscape 4) a
suitable element with an id.

> Its not happening for me. Is it valid in cgi or am I missing something.

All the browser knows is that it has recieved some HTML because it
made a request for an HTTP resource. It doesn't matter how the server
goes about working out what content to send back, CGI, mod_perl, a
static file, its all the same to the client.

--
David Dorward                                      http://dorward.me.uk