Menu link URL to an in-page anchor ( ...#some-id) not working from a submenu

[stonebyter]

Steps to reproduce the issue

Add an article 'Music' with two divs that should be navigable with an in-page
anchor <div id="video"> and <div="audio">.

Build a menu hierarchy:
[Music] URL: index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6
-- [Videos] URL: index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6#videos
-- [Audio]. URL: index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6#audio

Expected result

When selecting one of the submenus [Videos] or [Audio] the browser should
scroll down to the <div> associated with the menu item.

Actual result

The top of the page is displayed. The browser does not scroll down.

The cause of the problem is, that two itemIds are added to the link.
The menu link created/enhanced by Joomla looks as follows:
index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6&itemId=130#videos&itemId=199

If I manually correct the link and put #videos at the end it works:
index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6&itemId=130&itemId=199#videos

System information (as much as possible)

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Additional comments

[brianteeman]

This is not a joomla bug!!

The problem is that you are not creating the anchors correctly in your content

<div="audio"> is not valid html it must be <div id="audio">

[brianteeman]

Joomla will never create a url like the one you suggest it does as it has two itemid

index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6&itemId=130#videos&itemId=199

[stonebyter]

Sorry this was a typo. The div's on my page are correct, the same as you wrote <div id="audio">.

Hmm regarding the URL: I suppose the itemId=130 is the top menu (Music) and the itemId=199 is the submenu (Video). When I check the link, there are really two itemId's and unfortunately the second one (199) is behind the #video for some reasons. The two itemId's are added by Joomla (or maybe by a plugin). I guess it is to track the the menu where the page was called from. In the menu is just the URL index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6#videos. From my point of view, the additional itemId's are created by Joomla. I have no idea what else could modify the link...

[brianteeman]

Sorry!!!!!

You are quite correct - thats a new bug as it should not work like that at all

[brianteeman]

What you can do (and I tested myself this time) is to use the sef url instead of the non-sef url.

[stonebyter]

Thanks a lot for your help! I really do appreciate your work!

[gwstyles]

In Brian's last post there are 3 links that when clicked on just go to a blank page with "private user image". What is the point if you can't see them?

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[brianteeman]

@gwstyles thats a limitation of the issues.joomla.org site. If you view it on github itself then you ccan see them - which obviously @stonebyter did #43324

[gwstyles]

Thank you Brian.

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