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PeterC66
Explorer | Level 3
4 years ago

How can I open an HTML document in Dropbox and go directly to an anchor tag

My requirement is fairly complex, but to understand the issue better I have a simple test HTML file with <a href="#xx">go to  xx</a> at the top of the body, and an anchor <a id="xx"> at the end o...
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    Mark
    4 years ago

    Dropbox ignores commands based upon HTML tags (in fact I'm quite shocked its rendering the page at all, I thought that had been disabled). There isnt a way round this that I know of 

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Mark
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4 years ago

Dropbox ignores commands based upon HTML tags (in fact I'm quite shocked its rendering the page at all, I thought that had been disabled). There isnt a way round this that I know of 

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    PeterC66
    Explorer | Level 3
    4 years ago

    Thanks. Thinking about it I now realise that I should not expect DropBox to show HTML as I have a website for that! My document is actually in Word that I converted to PDF.  But as I could not reliably link to bookmarks in a PDF I switched to generating HTML. I should have thought a bit more about it before assuming to put it on DropBox.

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