I have a page with some <h1 name="Header Name"> tags. Notice that the name attribute has a space in it. I want to use an anchor so that I can jump to the heading. I thought that if I added %20 to replace the spaces it would work, but no.
I am currently swamped, so would prefer not to edit the source and redeploy with each header having an ID or title with hyphens instead of spaces.
<!-- non-working example of what I want -->
<a href="mypage.html#Header%20Name" />
<h1 title="Header Name">Foo</h1>
I read through the spec here, but couldn't find an answer. I also could not find an answer via Google or SO.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html
Is there a way to do this?
That's not how anchor tags work. You can jump to a name of an anchor tag, or an id of any element. You can never jump to a title attribute, unfortunately. You would need to modify the html, which you don't want to do, or include javascript to accomplish what you are asking.
Edit: Standards have always said id attributes cannot include spaces, including HTML5, which says this:
HTML5 gets rid of the additional restrictions on the id attribute. The only requirements left — apart from being unique in the document — are that the value must contain at least one character (can’t be empty), and that it can’t contain any space characters.