# Intra-post anchor links don't work in Safari / Firefox
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/intra-post-anchor-links-dont-work-in-safari-firefox/29125
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** ember
**Created:** [5월 22, 2015, 1:19오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/intra-post-anchor-links-dont-work-in-safari-firefox/29125 "2015-05-22T13:19:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@plkap74](https://meta.discourse.org/u/plkap74)
#### Post date: [5월 22, 2015, 1:19오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/intra-post-anchor-links-dont-work-in-safari-firefox/29125/1 "2015-05-22T13:19:17Z")
I’ve been experimenting with anchor links inside of posts (links to content inside of a long post). I have read that you can’t use the `id`s because they get stripped. I used the `name` property instead and it works for Chrome but throws a very cryptic error in Safari.
```plaintext
Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: [name=anchor-name
```
It doesn’t give a useful trace so I can’t even tell where it is coming from. Is the anchor routing dealt with by Ember? Is there custom logic for that somewhere?
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## Example 1 (Live bug)
Try going to this link in Chrome (it works) but in Safari it throws an error and doesn’t work:
> **[Guidelines - Discourse Demo](https://try.discourse.org/guidelines)**
>
> Demonstration sandbox for Discourse
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## Example 2 (Reproduced bug)
works in Chrome, throws errors in safari
### Table of contents
- [Topic 1](#topic-1)
- [Topic 2](#topic-2)
- [TOC markup](#toc-markup)
#### Topic 1
The markup for this heading is:
```plaintext
#### Topic 1
```
#### Topic 2
The markup for this heading is:
```plaintext
#### Topic 2
```
#### TOC Markup
The markup for the table of contents is
```plaintext
### Table of contents
- Topic 1
- Topic 2
- TOC markup
```
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### Author:  [@anon42064797](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon42064797)
#### Post date: [5월 22, 2015, 8:34오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/intra-post-anchor-links-dont-work-in-safari-firefox/29125/2 "2015-05-22T20:34:12Z")
I can repro this on Firefox v38
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### Author:  [@plkap74](https://meta.discourse.org/u/plkap74)
#### Post date: [5월 23, 2015, 1:54오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/intra-post-anchor-links-dont-work-in-safari-firefox/29125/3 "2015-05-23T13:54:38Z")
Plot like gravy thickens. It appears to not throw any errors in development mode, only in production…
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [5월 24, 2015, 11:55오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/intra-post-anchor-links-dont-work-in-safari-firefox/29125/4 "2015-05-24T23:55:56Z")
Can be minifier related , seen a minifier bug once before
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### Author:  [@plkap74](https://meta.discourse.org/u/plkap74)
#### Post date: [5월 25, 2015, 1:45오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/intra-post-anchor-links-dont-work-in-safari-firefox/29125/5 "2015-05-25T13:45:21Z")
Can you point me to where in the JS this is being handled?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [5월 25, 2015, 9:24오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/intra-post-anchor-links-dont-work-in-safari-firefox/29125/6 "2015-05-25T21:24:23Z")
It is here
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### Author:  [@plkap74](https://meta.discourse.org/u/plkap74)
#### Post date: [5월 26, 2015, 12:44오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/intra-post-anchor-links-dont-work-in-safari-firefox/29125/7 "2015-05-26T12:44:09Z")
I’m sorry I should have been more specific, I meant where was the name anchor code happening. I dove in and found it in `javascripts/discourse/lib/url.js`. It looks like there is a missing bracket.
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Not sure why that would break only production though…
I’ll submit a PR.
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### Author:  [@plkap74](https://meta.discourse.org/u/plkap74)
#### Post date: [5월 26, 2015, 12:53오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/intra-post-anchor-links-dont-work-in-safari-firefox/29125/8 "2015-05-26T12:53:27Z")
PR submitted
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/3503](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/3503)
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [5월 26, 2015, 1:53오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/intra-post-anchor-links-dont-work-in-safari-firefox/29125/9 "2015-05-26T13:53:17Z")