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Sam Marchant
Sam Marchant

Reputation: 85

why does the top button still link to the top of the page?

I have a button <a href="#top">Top</a> linking to the top of the page <body id="top"></body> but when removing the id of the body the button still works. I cant work this out, I put it down to the browser cacheing data although I have emptied the cache and re-tried and it still works. This is purely informative, its not causing me any issues.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 47

Answers (2)

monokh
monokh

Reputation: 1990

I believe if the id does not exist, the browser will handle it the same as '#'. Which links to the start of the page.

Upvotes: 1

Quentin
Quentin

Reputation: 943207

Unrecognised fragment identifiers are treated as being at the top of the document.

Upvotes: 1

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