A tag bug with NAME and HREF parameter

[matthewvb@…]

I'm noticing a bug using a tags using 3.4.1. Tried on a few sites using 3.4.1.

To replicate:

When editing a post, go in HTML view.

Add a link with both a HREF and a NAME:
<a href="​http://google.com" name="#google">google</a>

Click on Visual mode

Go back to HTML mode. code now looks like:
<a href="​http://google.com" name="#google"></a>google

Link text is being moved outside the a tag.

I don't believe this should happen - you should, in theory, be able to put both an HREF and a NAME together, though perhaps this isn't valid syntax.

[toscho]

Confirmed. This happens with valid markup too: <a name="google" href="http://google.com">google</a> is changed to <a name="google" href="http://google.com"></a>google.
The href attribute doesn’t make a difference. Without it the same happens.

[azaozz]

This has come up before. The visual editor separates anchors and links as the name attribute was formally deprecated in XHTML 1.0. In HTML 5.0 this was "downgraded" to a recommendation to always use ID instead of name.

Currently you can use an anchor followed by a link:

<a name="123"></a><a href="go-there">...</a>

which will work in exactly the same way.

If you really need to still use <a name="..."> and have it act as a link too, perhaps open a ticket on TinyMCE's ​bug-tracker.

[ocean90]

#20089

[SergeyBiryukov]

This is fixed in trunk (probably after TinyMCE update in [21228]).