link anchors in HTML email - html

Question

I am trying to make a newsletter email with an idnex that has links to different anchors in the mail, but so far, it doesn't seem to work in any client. This is the code:
<ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; ">
<li>Sehen wir uns auf der ISH?</li>
<li>Sehen wir uns auf der ISH?</li>
<li>Sehen wir uns auf der ISH?</li>
<li>Sehen wir uns auf der ISH?</li>
<li>Sehen wir uns auf der ISH?</li>
</ul>
...
<a name="anchor1" id="anchor1">foo</a>
What?s even weirder, in GMAIL my ID tag disappears and my name tag gets some sort of weird prefix, like "124335132_anchor1". What could I do?

Answer 1

you know how usually you have the string
<div id="boom">...
and you want to anchor link to that from somewhere else, you would enter
so now you would use a name tag in addition to your destination.
<a name="boom"></a><div id="boom">...
Viola! anchor link in html email.

Answer 2

Email clients aren't web browsers or designed to be. They leave off vast swathes of things you are likely to consider "pretty basic".
Make all links absolute and plan for them to open in a web browser.

Answer 3

To work with outlook 2010, it has to be like that:
Jump to section!
<p>A bunch of content</p>
<a name="section1">An anchor!</a>

Answer 4

not sure i'm getting what you mean.. but, it looks like you wanted to send MIMEBody as an email content, so the email looks like an html format.. if it the case, here is some piece from my java code:
#Override
public void coba() {
try {
MimeMessage message = new MimeMessage(mailSession);
message.setSubject("Whatever");
message.setRecipient(RecipientType.TO, new InternetAddress("SomeEmail#email.com", "SomeName Name"));
//
// This HTML mail have to 2 part, the BODY and the embedded image
//
MimeMultipart multipart = new MimeMultipart("related");
// first part (the html)
BodyPart messageBodyPart = new MimeBodyPart();
String htmlText = "<div style=\"width:800px; background-color:#525252\"><h1>Header</h1></div><br /><div style=\"width:200px; background-color:#ff0000; float: left\"><h3>Navigation Panel</h3><ul><li>link here</li><li>link here</li></ul></div><div style=\"width:600px; background-color:#727272; float: left\"><h3>Content</h3><p>blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla</p><br /><img src=\"cid:image\" /></div>";
messageBodyPart.setContent(htmlText, "text/html");
// add it
multipart.addBodyPart(messageBodyPart);
// second part (the image)
messageBodyPart = new MimeBodyPart();
DataSource fds = new FileDataSource("C:/img/lion.JPG");
messageBodyPart.setDataHandler(new DataHandler(fds));
messageBodyPart.setHeader("Content-ID","<image>");
// add it
multipart.addBodyPart(messageBodyPart);
// put everything together
message.setContent(multipart);
Transport.send(message);
//System.out.println("Successfully Send Email(" + subject + ") to " + emailAddress);
} catch(Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
i send an email with html format, here is screen shot the message content on gmail
here is the screen shot
hopefully it have any use for you..