trouble referencing anchors when pasing variables 2

[leadman]

Hi all,
Im adding some anchors to a target page like the following:

<A NAME=&quot;anchor1&quot;></a>

Then on the page that points to the page with the above anchor on it ive changed a working link that used to look like this:

<a href=&quot;pagewithanchor.cfm?strProdID=#strProdID#&quot;>

to this:

<a href=&quot;pagewithanchor#anchor1.cfm?strProdID=#strProdID#&quot;>

When I try to load the page with the link on it i get the following error on that line of code:

Just in time compilation error

Invalid token found on line 230 at position 49. ColdFusion was looking at the following text:

?
Invalid expression element. The usual cause of this error is a misspelling in the expression text.

Any ideas?

 

[JHoarty]

Any time you want a pound sign to be a pound sign in Cold Fusion, you need to escape it with another pound sign (if it's between cfoutput tags).

So, you need to use ## in order to get #.

John Hoarty
jhoarty@quickestore.com

http://www.quickestore.com

 

[leadman]

okay - i tried the anchor with this

<a href=&quot;pagewithanchor##anchor1.cfm?strProdID=#strProdID#&quot;>

but still got this:


Just in time compilation error

Invalid token found on line 230 at position 49. ColdFusion was looking at the following text:

?
Invalid expression element. The usual cause of this error is a misspelling in the expression text.

 

[Silvano]

when placing anchor target you should put the actual target AFTER the question mark and AFTER any data folowing it; e.g.:

<a href=&quot;pagewithanchor.cfm?strProdID=#strProdID###anchor1&quot;>

if you build real dinamic page and the &quot;anchor1&quot; becomes anchor2, anchor3, anchor4..., you should consider putting it into a variable; in that case you'll need another pair of # signs:

<a href=&quot;pagewithanchor.cfm?strProdID=#strProdID####anchor1#&quot;> Sylvano
dsylvano@hotmail.com

&quot;every and each day when I learn something new is a small victory...&quot;

 

[leadman]

great - thanks, that helped lots!