Hyperlink panel "go to destination" not linking to html with # to a specific id="anchor-1"
ID version 17.0
Hyperlink is to a url containing a # to anchor-1 in an html document. (Fig. 1)
When clicking the go to destination it should open to that particular id location in the html.
In the browser the # becomes %23 and the html document does not open, in fact it opens a pdf with a similar url. (Fig. 3)
Fortunately when creating a pdf the link does work correctly in the browser.
In v 14.0.1 it would open to the correct place in the html.
Michael
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Vernon Perkins
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Same issue (I think).
Every time we publish (weekly) we have articles with citations that require URLs with HTML anchors - that is a # followed by an anchor location in the destination webpage.
Every time we have to remove the HTML anchor to get the hyperlink into InDesign.
Result: the page loads at the top, not at the anchor, where the author wants us to be. -
Seen Robinson
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I have the same problem. Adobe, please fix this.
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Virgil Ierubino
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Same issue.
InDesign incorrectly encodes a hash in a URL/hyperlink where this is used to provide a fragment to link to an anchor/id on a website.
Consequently it is impossible to link to any page that utilises the fragment part of the URL.