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May 15
Response.Redirect and the (#) anchor in IE6
by  Tom PhanNo presence information  on 5/15/2007 5:09 PM

In IE6, Response.Redirect does not work properly when you specify an (#) anchor as a bookmark in a string you pass to Response.Redirect().  In one of our project, we used Response.Redirect, specify an ulr and then append the (#) anchor to bookmark where we want the link to navigate to on the targeted page. This works fine in IE 7 and Firefox, but this does not work in IE6. The work around for this is simply appending a meaningless QueryString value after your real request and before the (#) anchor or just add an "&" right before the (#)anchor.

Example:

Response.Redirect("Http://foo.com/detail.aspx?itemid=1#itemdetail);

What you expect to happen is that the link should navigate you to an anchor tag with the name "itemdetail" somewhere on the detail page for itemid=1.

<a name="itemdetail">some details…</a>

This is true in IE 7 and Firefox, but not in IE 6.   In IE6 you can navigate to this anchor if you append it with an "&":

 Response.Redirect("Http://foo.com/detail.aspx?itemid=1&#itemdetail); 

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