Intra-post anchor links don't work in Safari / Firefox

plkap74 · 22 مايو 2015، 1:19م

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 ids because they get stripped. I used the name property instead and it works for Chrome but throws a very cryptic error in Safari.

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?

Example 1 (Live bug)

Try going to this link in Chrome (it works) but in Safari it throws an error and doesn’t work:

Example 2 (Reproduced bug)

works in Chrome, throws errors in safari


      
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plkap74 · 26 مايو 2015، 12:44م

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.

github.com/discourse/discourse

app/assets/javascripts/discourse/lib/url.js

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          },
          
          // Scroll to the same page, different anchor
          scrollToId: function(id) {
            if (Em.isEmpty(id)) { return; }
          
            jumpScheduled = true;
            Em.run.schedule('afterRender', function() {
              var $elem = $(id);
              if ($elem.length === 0) {
                $elem = $("[name=" + id.replace('#', ''));
              }
              if ($elem.length > 0) {
                $('html,body').scrollTop($elem.offset().top - $('header').height() - 15);
                jumpScheduled = false;
              }
            });
          },
          
          /**
            Our custom routeTo method is used to intelligently overwrite default routing

Not sure why that would break only production though…

I’ll submit a PR.

plkap74 · 26 مايو 2015، 12:53م

PR submitted

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/3503

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Intra-post anchor links don't work in Safari / Firefox

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