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Thanks Ron – that was the problem. I don’t really understand CSS, but am learning lots in this process!

Yes, haunted – the obvious answer!

I’ve been experimenting with moving CSS to Custom Styles – some works, some doesn’t (perhaps it just needs to be slightly different). But I’ll leave that migration until another time, I think – can’t afford for it to not be working tomorow.

Thanks for your help!

I don’t know anything about php. Don’t know about plug-ins, and have been enabling and dis-abling a bit randomly. But the menue editing area has come back.

I imagine that if I experiment with reverting to a different theme, I lose any custom CSS that isn’t where it belongs (outside styles.css)?

Of course – sorry, I was thinking within WP editing.

Everything has come back, no idea why! Thanks.

Thanks, I’ll check that note.

How do I view the page source for a search result?

PS – The error message is on a page with a standard site search, which works fine…

Sorted, I think.

I’ve kept Ron’s idea of enclosing each item in a div with the id for the anchor. Then, because a space + line break doesn’t ‘stick’, I’ve added a small graphic (a mini version of the logo) above the line. It effectively pads the space between the top of the div and the h3.

If it’s hidden by the WP admin bar, it’s no loss. If it’s visible, it doesn’t look too peculiar (like an odd line might)

Thanks everyone for your ideas!

“Enable Top Bar” is checked. That’s not the one I mean (still learning the lingo!), it’s the WP Admin one. Thanks for those instructions, I’ve done that for mine. I didn’t have to tick it before, so perhaps it’s a WP update change.

It’s tricky to get to a Profile without it, so I’d better go through as Admin and tick that box for everyone else. At least I know what to do now! Thank you.

Thanks for that, Ron. I don’t particularly want to add space (the page is long enough already), but so far it is the only way I’ve found to get the heading to not be covered when the link lands there, for a logged-in user.

The puzzle is, how can I get the link to land a line *above* the heading?

And will that make the link land in that space, rather than at the heading?

Ron – reference your note, I was aware a child theme or custom css was the better way to go, but with the steepness of my learning curve and short timescales I was reluctant to add another variable at the time.

I’ve commented all my changes, and am now thinking of extracting them to one of those, but when I’ve read the instructions I am still intimidated!

Back to the main issue – I wonder if there is a way to build space into the css for the h3 headings that will shift where the link lands and not vanish if I use the Visual editor?

I’ve added divs, now my playing around with space won’t change the anchors.

Your idea of a
worked, Ron – provided I preceded it with a non-breaking space. I had tried that before, but not in a div. So I did that, and everything was going well, everything working, when I changed to the visual editor – and then although the divs have stayed, all the breaks and non-breaking spaces vanished!

Is this a WordPress bug, or simply means I’m coding it wrong? I have noticed that an apostrophe in my text often means the following anchor doesn’t work.

WPyogi – the idea of a margin is effectively what adding space above the h3 heading is doing.

Magic! Well spotted WPyogi. I guess in that case everything I’ve tried would have worked, if I tested it as logged out.

On the other hand, members of BAPT may well be logged in when they use the FAQ, and so might have the same problem…

The current work-around is to put the anchor just before the full stop in the previous entry. When logged out one lands a little high, but that’s not so much of a problem.

Interestingly, I’ve just logged in as a standard member to test that theory, and the admin bar isn’t there (it usedto be last time I tried) – a new puzzle to figure out! What I’ve been saying in the faqs presumes its presence.

Nice idea Andrew – and it still works as a link but hides the heading when it lands.

I’m wondering about putting an <hr> above the heading (rather than in the heading style) and linking to there…

No, that didn’t work.

I’m having exactly the same problem with my Frontier theme, and using Chrome. So it isn’t just the theme. web page here

Have you found an answer to this question?

So far I’ve tried a name=”item”, a id=”item”, I’ve followed the anchors with a non-breaking space and a line break, both inside the < > and outside – which works a treat until the editor takes it out again. ?? If inside the brackets, the space is underlined. I removed that with CSS and it was taken away by the editor again.

The only method that seems to work at the moment is to put the anchor in the previous item, which isn’t really satisfactory.

With every issue I sort, another turns up. Thanks for any help!