Anchor tag doesn't work in iPhone Safari

Question

I'm having an issue with a named anchor tag in iPhone Safari browser. It works well in desktop browsers including Safari, but not working in mobile Safari. Weird!

For example my URL looks like:

http://www.example.com/my-example-article-url-is-like.php#articlebottom

the above URL is from a newsletter and it should go to the bottom paragraph in article page which I gave id like this:

<p id="articlebottom">paragraph is here</p>

When I click the above URL from Newsletter it goes to the article page, but not the bottom para where I specify id. Although I can see that the #articlebottom part is missing from URL when it came into the targeted page in Safari.

Any thoughts would be appreciated!

Answer 1

Opera, IE, Chrome and Firefox will carry over the anchor to the new page. However, Safari loses the anchor on the redirect.

So what if you add / just before the ID Tag?

Old URL Path: http://www.example.com/my-example-article-url-is-like.php#articlebottom

New URL Path: http://www.example.com/my-example-article-url-is-like.php/#articlebottom

Another solution is that you'd have to delete both "www." from the domain and add a forward slash before the anchor tag in the URL/pathname before Safari would respond properly. Firefox doesn't seem to care, and I haven't gotten to testing on IE yet.