Dreamweaver link checker and .html#namedanchor

Why does the link checker flag every #namedanchor as a broken link?

[yellowbeetle]

Newbie here - Using Dreamweaver to design a site, some links go to particular page spots (leadersleeve.html#double). Dreamweaver throws all such references into the "bad links" list when I run the sitewide link checker.

Why won't Dreamweaver recognize these links as valid? Thanks very much for any help/guidance.

[coopster]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, yellowbeetle.

Sorry for the obvious question, but do you indeed have named anchors set in the documents?

[yellowbeetle]

Yep, named anchors have been named, and function properly in browsers - it's only Dreamweaver that gets bothered by it.

[coopster]

You don't have the anchor named twice in the same document, do you?

[yellowbeetle]

Each "anchor name" only points to one spot.
Here's the syntax of the naming:
<a id="singlebarrelled"></a><img src="../resources/images/products/sleevesinglesm.jpg">Single Barrel Sleeves

Here's the call:
<a href="leadersleeves.html#singlebarrelled">1</a>

[jessejump]

Try putting a on-breaking space or some character in the anchor.

[yellowbeetle]

Added an &nbsp; - still kicks up as "broken link"

[coopster]

It's probably the document type definition and DW is looking for a name attribute as opposed to id type anchor -- try adding a name attribute

<a name="singlebarrelled" id="singlebarrelled"></a><img src="../resources/images/products/sleevesinglesm.jpg">Single Barrel Sleeves

Why are you not wrapping the <a> element around that <img> and it's text? Seems more logical to me.

[yellowbeetle]

Hooray - adding "name" made Dreamweaver happy!

(Wouldn't wrapping the <a></a> around the <img> and text activate link behaviors so it would appear that the text was a link that went somewhere instead of just an arrival spot?)

[coopster]

Nope, that's what the href attribute does for the <a> attribute. Don't supply the href attribute and you don't have a link.