Anchor Linking Problems

I’m trying to create a link on one thread and send the user to another thread in a specific part of it and I’m trying to do with anchor links; the thing is I can’t get it to work on all browsers only except in IE.

This is what I’m doing:

1. Select text on Thread2 and and create an anchor name “#ANCHOR”
2. Then go to Thread1 and click on a word which I want to be clickeable and add the anchor link name at the end of the URL
<a href="https://myblog.com/howto#ANCHOR">

Again, I’ve tested this on all major browsers [IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera] but it only works on IE :S

btw .. which one is the correct way to create an anchor link because I’ve come across many versions:

<a name="#ANCHOR NAME"></a>
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/anchors

<div id="#ANCHOR NAME"></div>
https://www.ampercent.com/create-in-page-anchor-text-links-wordpress/5003/

<a href="#ANCHOR NAME"></a>
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/page-jumpanchor-question