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Bug Report - Anchor Links and IE
The Government department and the VPAA office have isolated a bug in how IE 7 interprets/creates anchor links in web pages under CMS 5.0. Attempting to create new anchor links, or attempting to edit old anchor links, will result in broken code that takes your page users only to an empty editing box.
This is a bug in the program code, and cannot be fixed by normal page editing means. If you experience this bug on one of your pages, the only option is to delete the corrupted page and re-create the content from scratch. This can be a long and involved process on some pages, so please pay careful attention to the issue.
We advise that:
1) If you have anchor links in your webpages, do not edit them in IE 7. If you must make edits, please consider downloading and installing another browser for your work.
2) Do not create new anchor links in IE 7. Anchor links appear to work normally when created using a different browser.
3) If you have alternative means, consider avoiding anchor linking for a short while. We have a bug report in with the parent company to have this issue resolved, and hope for a patch to arrive quickly.
Anchor links are created using the Anchor button in the text editor, circled in red in the image below.
