Links created using Links plugin to anchor tag does not work

[Rajasimhan]

1. Create a link of type url and give it an id and name.
2. Now enter no of lines below this link. These lines are added as spacer.
3. Create another link and select its type as 'Link to anchor in the text' and select the anchor name or id of the link created in step 1.
4. The new link must be created quite some distance from the first link i.e the second link must be at a scrollable distace so that when we click the second link the focus moves up or down the page.
5. Now click the second link. In IE and chrome focus will move to the first link while in firefox instead of the focus getting shifted to the target link the page reloads.

I have verified that this is not a behaviour intinsic to firefox by creating two such links in a html page without ckeditor and it behaves as expected i.e the focus shifts, just like in IE and firefox. The problem occurs only when ckeditor is loaded.

One difference I observed between the source code of the preview page as generated by IE and FF is that FF had this additional line insided the html body

<p>
	<link href="http://ckeditor.com/apps/ckeditor/3.6.3/contents.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</p>

If this is acknowledged as a bug we will require it to be patch in 3.3.1 and 3.5.3 also as we have customers using these releases and waiting for a fix.

[Rajasimhan]

Any updates on this bug

[Jakub Ś]

Problem has been reproducible in Firefox from CKEditor 3.0.

When you click on anchor in page preview - sample page you have used will be loaded.

[Rajasimhan]

Can you provide a ETA for the fix?

[Frederico Caldeira Knabben]

This is a browser bug and I'm afraid we're not able to workaround it: ​https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302976

This forces us to have this limitation with the Preview button on Firefox, where anchors will not work.

A possible workaround would be using a server side solution for the preview, replacing the current implementation altogether. This can be achieved by a custom or third party plugin, like the following:
​ServerPreview: Preview with a server processed page

[Frederico Caldeira Knabben]

Well... it looks like I was able to workaround it without a server side solution.

[Rajasimhan]

Fred, Is the attached patch compatible with 3.5.3, 3.6.2 & 3.3.1?

Thanks Raj

[Rajasimhan]

Hi Fred, Can you comment on my earlier question?

[Frederico Caldeira Knabben]

Dev site patches will always target trunk. In this case, it should work with previous versions as well.

[Frederico Caldeira Knabben]

Fixed with [7527].