IE appends anchor name to title bar

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:14:10 Z

I have an html page with flash objects embedded into it and try to access the page with some anchor name appended to it, IE appends the anchor name also to the page title. Is this by design ao a bug? Is there any workaround for not displaying anchor in Title bar.

Here is the sample code:
<html>
<head>
<title>My Test Page</title></head>
<body>
<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kKo9oUAFQ_A"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kKo9oUAFQ_A" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
</body>
</html>

Save this code as test.html in some folder and then access the page from IE.
1. C:\TestFolder\test.html ---------- Title shows correctly.(My Test Page)
2. C:\TetsFolder\test.html#123 ----- #123 gets appended to title.(My Test Page#123)
Similarly if you keep on adding flash objects to the page you will get as many anchor names appended to the title bar.(My Test Page#123#123....... and so on).

Firefox displays the title correctly in both the scenarios.

Thanks
Abhilash

IE appends anchor name to title bar

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:32:00 Z

I am also having the same problem. IE display the incorrect character in the Title bar, can anybody help??

IE appends anchor name to title bar

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:06:27 Z

i have the same problem haha i was looking for a solution and i ended in this forum... we need some help here... anyone?

IE appends anchor name to title bar

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:16:18 Z

Nice Bug!, I can repro this in IE7, but not in IE6.

IE appends anchor name to title bar

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:54:22 Z

do you have a solution for this? im using IE7

IE appends anchor name to title bar

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:13:33 Z

The only possible way is to rewrite the title on page render using javascript.

IE appends anchor name to title bar

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:04:14 Z

ARRRGSSSSSSS ok ok ..... but how the heck can i do that ???? geez.... u're just saying but not answering how.....

IE appends anchor name to title bar

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:26:30 Z

Code Snippet

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IE appends anchor name to title bar

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:30:21 Z

This bug has been identified as bug 312 for IE7 here:

http://webbugtrack.blogspot.com/2007/12/bug-312-anchor-links-klobber-page-title.html

Hopefully IE8 will fix this.

IE appends anchor name to title bar

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:25:32 Z

thanks for the info dude.. if i know any update about this ill post it, cya

IE appends anchor name to title bar

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:26:45 Z

I am having this problem, I have tested with Safari and Foxfire and they work fine. Only IE7 doesn't function.

IE appends anchor name to title bar

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:00:54 Z

This is bug FP-240 at Adobe:

http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-240

Vote for the bug there if you want to see it fixed.

IE appends anchor name to title bar

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:23:26 Z

Hey guys,

In the interim why not just add some underscores to the end of your doc title ie; "index.htm _________somewords__________" that way it'll push the anchors off screen:

check out my site and see it work by clicking on the images at the bottom of the home page that has a tonne of remote page anchors:

www.aaronscgi.net

Could this affect the results with search engines?

- Roger